500Mbps Powerline Adapter with AC Pass-Through (Twin Pack)
Cheapest on Staticice is $124
Also NP206 $48.30 on the same clearance table with a few others interesting items.
NetComm Powerline Adapters with AC Pass-through, $69.30 Clearance @ Officeworks Caroline Springs VIC
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Good price. But with all the new AC1200+, dual band more aerials blah blah, surely routers have better range these days? Does anyone still have too many brick walls in the way and therefore still need these?
These are really in houses have very thick walls. There are few of those in Australia, but they do exist. In some countries houses are mostly made of concrete, and wireless reception is extremely bad. So there is definitely a market for these, but it is getting smaller.
still powerline connection is way more stable compared to wireles..
Consider also that some people are beginning to believe that wireless signals can have health effects.
That said I have a second wireless router running via these and they perform well.
That also assumes that all devices are AC capable or even wifi capable for that matter. Or that you even want to use wifi.
I have these NP504s, they are great, I have four of them in the house. My NAS and Desktop can;t be anywhere near the router, frankly not much can be, and these provide good solid throughput for everything in my house.
I will always chose these over wifi.
But with all the new AC1200+, dual band more aerials blah blah, surely routers have better range these days?
Oh you make me laugh.
I'm never going back to WiFi. Putting in CAT6 fairly soon. WiFi is flaky, voodoo, cosmic bullsh*t as far as I'm concerned.
My NP504s haven't been reset or so much as looked at for at least 2 years. Old faithful. Truly plug-and-play; fire-and-forget.
Shrug. I wired up my previous home with cat6. My new home practically has lead-lined walls (I'm in a suburb close to the city and I can't even make mobile phone calls most the time without going outside) and yet wifi.. no problems. I think I've finally committed to selling my 24port HP gigabit Layer 2/3 switch as a result.
This is Netcomm Np504. The later model Np505 is for $42.23 on officeworks website if you find the stock.
http://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/netcomm-wir…
np505 is what they call 500Mbps (good luck getting that speed ever :-) ) adapter but they have 10/100 ethernet ports, which might or might not be good for some people. It is definitely good enough to connect ADSL modem to a router for example.
Are the newer ones compatible with the old ones? i mean if you need more than 2?
Anyone know?"If you have an existing network of Powerline adapters or would like to build upon your NP505 network this can be quite simple to do.
Note: If you want to connect other adapters to the NP504 network they must all be 500Mbps.
Make sure all powerline adapters are compatible; ie. 500Mbps specification.
Connect all adapters initially to power points in a location so that they are in the same room or near each other
for easy viewing. Ideally plug the powerline adapters onto the same power board."Note: If you want to connect other adapters to the NP504 network they must all be 500Mbps.
You can connect devices with different speeds so long as they are HomePlug AV compliant (eg. 200Mbps devices will work with 500Mbps).
Obviously devices of differing speeds will communicate at the lower speed.
Does anyone have any experience with these AC passthrough ones?
I have some ancient 85 mbps ones that form the backbone of my parents' home network :P their house is really old and there are very few powerpoints in most rooms. As a result this device often sits on a powerpoint which can have a heavy load drawing from it and the performance of the 85mbps one tanks. Does this style handle a lot of power coming through it without losing a lot of performance?
Have had 4 of these for close to 2 years. They generally crap all over wifi for stability and speed, at least in my experience. Still u r cable tied but that has benefits. Have these working with a D-Link EOP wireless access point too. Good deal. I paid $200+ a while back.
I bought these from Optus two weeks ago for $39.95 inc delivery, not sure if you have to be a customer or if everyone can get it. Same model too,
Works really well.Through Optus website?do U have the link?
I just called, went through to the FetchTV dept, they have a few
Models at the same price, I asked for the 504s, two weeks later they arrived. What's more, I don't have FetchTV, just a mobile account with them.
+1 because thats a lot cheaper
Re passthrough, it will handle the max 2400w 10amp standard powerpoint load. Should be fine and not experience much if any slowdown.
I bought pair of these few years ago. They are for device has no wireless capability or poor wireless capability, and does not support USB dongle
Note that this "AC" has nothing to do with Wireless AC; for this product it means "you can plug something in so you don't lose a powerpoint". Netcomm also sells these things with Wireless AP's integrated in it - that is not what this product is.