Comtrend G.hn 1200 Mpbs Powerline Ethernet Bridge Adapter 2-Unit Kit PG-9172KIT

this is for comtrend 9172 power line ethernet kit of two units. HOLY COW! Have a computer in a remote room far from the cable internet modem - about 400 feet thru the house power lines. Wifi shows 50mbps per speedtest.net. Depending on which wall socket I use, the comtrends generate from 51 to 93 mbps on a 100 ethernet card. Double wow. The strange part is the faster speeds are on gfci sockets in an adjoining bathroom - no apparent noise problems here. Probably a shorter run from the breaker box with fewer plugs. I THINK these units actually use the house ground system rather than the power plugs - that may be why they also sell units that run thru coax cable, probably using only the center conductor.Install is ridiculously easy - follow the two page info sheet and if your house is properly wired, should be no problem at all. I do not plan to change the IP to my network IP - don't care about all the extra features since it is plug n play. I did use about 100 feet of internet cable to try different locations. Have ordered another kit of two units so I can also take two ROKU units off wifi where the signal strength is only fair/good, causing some loading issues at times. I highly recommend this product!BTW, there is going to be a new version PW 9083 that will handle streaming for 4K TVs up to 2gbps I think. Not available yet, but coming soon I hope. I discovered this product while researching MXL for a stock purchase - MXL is going to supply chips for the new version. Not encouraging average investors - high risk investment but hope they provide superior chips!Update on 7/8/2017: Bought 4 more units. Now 1 router, 2 laptops, 3 ROKUS. All doing super! Latest laptop added has speed of 94mbps versus 50 on wifi. The ROKU menus load much, much faster than before. Performance of these units - fantastic!Getting the new units fired up took some figuring. Here are my steps to add units 3, 4, etc. First plug in the ethernet cable from a laptop to the 9172 unit. Plug into power. Wait for the first boot up, Press the config button on the unit for 3 seconds until the bottom light blinks. Press the config button on the unit connected to the router. Wait. The top and bottom lights should go green and the middle light should blink indicating network traffic. Run a speed test. Now you can unplug the new unit and move wherever it is to be located. You should be good to go. I did this procedure for all 4 of my new units. If you need to reset to factory setting, hold the config button for 10 seconds until it blinks at a fast rate. My house wiring is on a 100 amp breaker panel - if you have 200 amp, that may be where other buyers are having problems. Just an FYI! Cheers and good luck with your new, faster connections!!

My fiber enters the house in absolutely the worst possible place, creating multiple wifi dead spots. As a result, I had several rooms that were just not getting a quality internet signal. Because we have a finished basement, running wires was out. I could either put in a mesh network or try some of these. Although I was a bit skeptical, I purchased a two-pack to try an initial run. I put one of these next to the router, and the second one in the middle of the upstairs. I then connected it to a wifi router that I already had on hand. There was a small amount of configuration following downloaded instructions - Success! Note that I haven't tested the speed, I can definitely stream video to multiple systems through it.I then ordered a second pair of these to extend signals to single devices in two other rooms (In this case, I used the network jack in the powerline adapter to connect directly to my devices - a roku in one room and a pc in the other). There was literally no configuration in this case, I just plugged everything in and the adapters found the other already existing powerline adapters and worked! All of it is working together - an adapter next to the primary router and 3 more of them in different locations in the house - 1 feeding a second wifi router, 1 directly attached to a pc, and 1 attached to a roku.It might be important to note that I did make sure that all of the adapters were the same model from the same manufacturer, and I only plugged the adapters directly into the wall (none of them are plugged into power strips or extension cords)While these are much cheaper than using a set of mesh network wifi routers, if you have multiple devices that need network access at the end point, then you will probably need to connect the powerline adapter to a wifi router at that location. I did this and it worked fine (you will have to do a little configuration but the instructions were straightforward) When connecting the powerline adapter to the roku and the pc, there was no configuration - just plug and play, but in those cases, you will only have 1 device getting the benefit of the extended signal.

This is very odd. The installation was very easy and it worked for a day. When I shut down my computer, the devices no longer connected to the internet. They don't work with other computers. My computer can access the internet via other methods, and the internet is also working on other devices. The adapters are supposed to have three illuminated lights: the top for internet, the middle for the connection and the bottom for security. My top light is no longer illuminating-the devices won't access the internet. It is really odd. I had someone who has worked in IT for 30 years try to work with me but we simply cannot get it to work. Reset the router, rebooted devices, reset the adapters, nothing. So I called the Comtrend customer service line. I left multiple messages, sent an email and I still have not received any response. It has been 2 business days. I am returning this product and never buying a Comtrend product again.