After my last post which sounded a bit like an advert for the Harmony 600 I felt a bit worried that this post will do the same.
I have a problem in our new house... Wifi barely gets through the walls which are made of thick brick throughout. Coverage was limited to the living room with the router and reduced speed wifi in adjacent rooms. Half the house had no wifi at all and mobile reception teeters on 1 bar.
I plumped for the 200Mbs homeplug as a good compromise between speed and cost. The newer faster solutions at 500Mbs and 1000Mbs sound good but would appear in a few cases to not give the speed advertised in a lot of houses. Less than perfect wiring seems to be the main cause of the reduced speeds.
I purchased a D-link 200mbs AV homeplug and setup was as easy as it is possible to be. I plugged one end into my router and the other into my macbook pro. Then I pressed the only button on each plug. My safari lept into life and that was it. No need to read the manual.
As to speeds, I am running much faster (approx 5x) than on my wireless N airport when in adjacent rooms. I haven't been able to conduct a fair test yet because my router is only 100Mbs. However, I can stream 720p movies with no problems at all. I have a NAS box and gigabit switch in the post so I shall update this post when that arrives..
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