Review on Powerline Pass Thru Homeplug Ethernet PLA6456KIT by Tray Smith

My home office is at the opposite end of the house from my cable modem/router. The distance from the router to my desktop computer is about 40 feet. Until recently, I used a dual-band USB wireless adapter for my main internet connection. Sometimes when I needed a faster, more reliable connection, I would pull out my trusty 100-foot Ethernet cable and connect my computer directly to the router. I really liked the faster connection, but my wife hated the cable that ran all the way through the house. I recently saw this powerline adapter for sale and decided to give it a try. This review is intended to show you my actual results. I'm going to show you a comparison of the actual speed of my internet connection in all three scenarios so you can decide for yourself if this product suits your needs. The first screenshot I posted shows the actual download speed of my internet connection when I use a 100ft ethernet cable to connect my desktop computer directly to the router. The speed was 90.1 Mbps (that's 11.3 MB/s). You can consider this my baseline. That's the kind of speed I'd really like to see from this powerline adapter (or something similar). After all, they claim speeds of up to 1800Mbps, so 90.1Mbps doesn't sound like much, does it? The second screenshot shows the speed I got with my dual-band wireless adapter. The WLAN adapter should now support up to 450 Mbit/s. Under ideal conditions, of course. But I demanded a lot from this device, because the signal had to go through three walls and a cabinet with a solid core door. So I wasn't totally surprised to only get 11.7 Mbps (or 1.5 MB/s) on my desktop. And that brings us to the third screenshot - for this powerline adapter. Although the speed was more than five times what I got with the wireless adapter, it was only about two-thirds of what I was expecting at 59.5 Mbps (7.4 MB/s). It's good enough that I'll probably keep the device to myself, but I was hoping for something better. I also have to say that the two powerline adapters are not connected to the same automatic circuit breaker, but to two circuits that are connected to the same main switch. I would also like to say that "setting up" this powerline adapter system was incredibly easy. . I simply plugged a device into an outlet closest to my router and ran one of the two included ethernet patch cords from the device to an open port on my router. I then went to the other end of the house and plugged the other device into the outlet closest to my desktop computer. I ran a second Ethernet connection cable from the device to the desktop PC and turned on the computer. That's all. I had an internet connection straight away. There was no attitude. It just worked.