To be brief:
- The Netgear brand has a good reputation in the field.
- Installation is fast and easy even if the instructions can seem a little sketchy.
- This model is compact unlike the older generations.
- This is the 200Mbit which is the minimum to be taken today as the 500Mbit is the top most expensive but not necessarily more effective propotionnellement. Please note that these values are never those actually measured in operation, and it is valid for all brands. We must therefore look for the existing tests on the net and magazines. For my part, I have no problem with my debit HDTV ...
- The fact that the PLC provides a power supply is also a minimum. Unless you have an electrical installation Strip murals throughout the house. Note that I often saw a model that sold off the grounding plug is not compatible with our standard (outer tab).
- There is a suppression equipment of other equipment that might be connected to a power strip, itself connected to the PLC (PC, printer box or decoder, TV and DVD player).
- There is a standby system (after tempo of inactivity). What is good for the energy consumption as well as the longevity of the CPL. Attention in my case CPL decoder side starts in standby condition to unplug the decoder (no switch, so it is on standby and creates a small business for the CPL). Side box, you have the déconecté CPL box because it is the asset so send him info and it can not go to sleep even if the decoder is disconnected. If the box is disconnected, both CPLs will be on standby (I still unplug my decoder to preserve).
- Depending on the distance (distance traveled in the power network) and quality electric cables (old-installation section of copper ...) there are varying degrees of loss. The flow rate may vary from one place to another in a housing and an electrical installation to another. The CPL has a light (green, orange, red) to indicate the quality of flow. For my part, my electric network is not very young (1973) and the distance between the CPLs is only a part and it works very well. I intend to take a second decoder and there the CPL will be fully profitable.
Finally, I wanted to PLUSIEUR networked PC and I see that my NeufBox, like many others no doubt, has two separate outputs for both PC and TV applications. So we have to add PLC for PCs hoping that there will be no conflict. I still dig the question ...
