Review on Powerline Pass Thru Gigabit Homeplug PLA6456BBKIT by Jimmy Bores

Pros: It's Powerline Ethernet and offers a wired network connection, but that's about it. Cons: Bandwidth is only about 220Mbps, even to my LAN. far in the best scenario I've tested, both on an idle circuit and in a relatively new house only built a few years ago) I even tried wiring this with redundant 10 gigabit cables, just for the case that the supplied cables were scrap. still 220 Mbit/s. I've used much cheaper powerline ethernet kits that work better than this one. My internet download speeds also dropped from an average of 950mbps up/down cable connected directly to my router to the same 220mbps through this powerline kit, so it seems to be a device limitation. While some speed loss is to be expected from the PowerLine adapter, throughput seems to be quite a bottleneck due to this PowerLine adapter. I'm assuming it's using a cheap chipset that can't handle a full 1Gbps load. The download speed was about the same. Luckily the average ping time didn't increase when using this powerline adapter kit, so I guess that's a plus? versus. You cannot connect both network connections of the sending side of the kit to your network to try to duplicate them or get two bandwidths. If you do, it will attempt to reassign addresses to your switch through one of the ports, essentially resulting in a denial of service attack that will cause your entire network connection (even wired devices) to go down if you don't use DOS. or DDOS protection in your network. Why it's configured in such a way that there might be a network drop if you use both ports isn't clear to me. It looks like this should work like 2 ports to 2 ports for the receiving PowerLine adapter. Maybe I received a defective set? Finally, a wired connection is definitely provided if you really need it and can't work. Wired connection another way, but don't expect gigabit speed. And please don't plug both ports into one router or switch, that's no fun for anyone.