Upgrade of the 500 adapters can be worthwhile

I had my house been completely "wired" with the devolo 500 adapters. With the performance I was very satisfied, to a "bad" path between the EC and the 1st floor, which happens to be the central connection between the router (on the ground) and my computer and my first NAS (the 1st floor) , Here I reached (measured by Windows Explorer File Transfer from your computer to another NAS that is connected on the ground floor directly to the router) only about 4.5 MB / s in one direction and slightly more - about 5.5 MB / s - in the other direction. (The devolo Cockpit tool showed here although values ​​between 120 and 150 Mbit / s, but these are fantasy values; the actual usable bandwidth is how the File Transfer test shows at much less than half.) For streaming DVD Video from the NAS was adequate, but Full HD video could not be streamed smoothly normally. Therefore, I had moved the location of my second NAS already in the EC (where the TV stands), with the drawback that it no longer depends on the UPS here.

When I recently the 650 Adapter Starter Kit saw as the flash deal on Amazon, although I had no great hope that the performance could improve on my "problem-track" it, but decided to try it at least once. (In the worst case I have the 650er kit just returned.) So ordered and replaced the two 500-adapter on the ground floor and the 1st floor to the 650s. And what can I say: In Your Face! It was immediately perceive a significant increase in performance. After several days of operation, the rate has leveled off, according to the cockpit in both directions at about 260 Mbit / s. The - much more meaningful - File Transfer test now gives me approximately 7.5 MB / s in one direction (to which I previously only about 4.5 MB / s had) and 8.5 MB / s in the other direction. The breaks certainly still no records, but represents an improvement of around 70% and ranges now also for smooth streaming HD video! My second NAS is reabsorbed back into the 1st floor.

The cooperation of the 650s adapter with the other existing 500 adapters works as expected also flawless. Also on these routes, the performance is increased by at least 50%, according to the cockpit, which is me but irrelevant.

For me, the upgrade has certainly paid off fully. The 650 adapter appear to be specialists in unfavorable current cabling, and all I can to anyone who also has such a "problem-route" in his home recommend to give 650 adapters times a chance.