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Jul 23rd, 2021 4:24 pm

goozy1 [OP]: Deal Addict; Aug 7, 2011; 1852 posts; 2742 upvotes; VANCOUVER

Jul 23rd, 2021 4:24 pm

NETGEAR AV2 Powerline Ethernet 2000Mps Adapter Set $99 (or $89 w/ Staples coupon)

Deal Link:: https://www.costco.ca/netgear-powerline ... langId=-24
Price:: 99.99
Savings:: $30 off
Expiry:: July 31, 2021
Retailer:: Multiple Retailers

Netgear Powerline Ethernet adapter is on sale for $99

Powerline Ethernet isn't for everyone but these Netgear ones are generally regarded as the best powerline adapter you can get. Wirecutter ranks it tied for first in their tests: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/revi ... rking-kit/.

Actual performance varies significantly base on age of house, electrical wire quality and length, other equipment running, etc. In my use case, I was able to get 170Mbit/sec, 4ms ping on my 1GBit connection. Significantly faster and more reliable than WiFi at that location (even though I have a full Ubuquiti setup with multiple access points). YMMV; best to try it for yourself.

Multiple retailers so likely a manufacturer sale. Best deal is through Staples with the $10 off $75 coupon if you can wait (use code 84111). I bought mine from Best Buy since I wanted to have an easy return policy if there were any issues.

https://www.staples.ca/products/2431507 ... et-plp2000
https://www.costco.ca/netgear-powerline ... langId=-24
https://www.amazon.ca/Netgear-Powerline ... 917&sr=8-2
https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/ne ... s/12727737

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Jul 23rd, 2021 4:27 pm

er34er34: Deal Fanatic; May 4, 2014; 5200 posts; 7055 upvotes; Toronto, ON

Jul 23rd, 2021 4:27 pm

goozy1 wrote: ↑ In my use case, I was able to get 170Mbit/sec, 4ms ping on my 1GBit connection.

170Mbps for a 2Gbps rated adapter? Isn't that pretty bad??

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Jul 23rd, 2021 4:29 pm

sks8100: Deal Addict; Mar 2, 2017; 2393 posts; 2022 upvotes

Jul 23rd, 2021 4:29 pm

I know its more expensive but I would rather opt for Moca 2.5 adapters. I have to say I was contemplating drilling holes in my wall to run more Ethernet wires then stumbled on these last year. Best decision I've ever made. Almost no loss and works with your existing coax cable wiring in the home. I am easily able to get near 100% of the MPS that my router would give out if plugged into the LAN ports. No more lagging Apple TV in our bedroom. I have used Powerline adapters in the past albeit an older version so performance was not to my liking. I'm sure the technology has evolved since but I dont think you get the same performance as Moca adapters. I could be wrong

If you are getting this to just power an Apple TV or firestick it should be more than sufficient. Mine are connected to switches around the house so I needed something more robust.
Thumbs up anyways OP

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Jul 23rd, 2021 4:30 pm

sip3261: Member; Nov 3, 2011; 389 posts; 221 upvotes

Jul 23rd, 2021 4:30 pm

Be aware, if you own a house and you can't use such device in your bedrooms. The reason is according to building codes, bedrooms all have arc fault breaker that can be triggered by these kind of devices.

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Jul 23rd, 2021 4:38 pm

er34er34: Deal Fanatic; May 4, 2014; 5200 posts; 7055 upvotes; Toronto, ON

Jul 23rd, 2021 4:38 pm

sip3261 wrote: ↑ Be aware, if you own a house and you can't use such device in your bedrooms. The reason is according to building codes, bedrooms all have arc fault breaker that can be triggered by these kind of devices.

Arc only happens if using 100% of your gigabit connection for downloading children-unfriendly content.

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Jul 23rd, 2021 5:13 pm

DragOnT: Deal Addict; Apr 2, 2008; 2629 posts; 2078 upvotes; GTA

Jul 23rd, 2021 5:13 pm

er34er34 wrote: ↑ 170Mbps for a 2Gbps rated adapter? Isn't that pretty bad??

There are many variables in the equation - such as wiring type, distance, location of the socket, what are currently on, etc.

Just to be fair; I use the AV600 and I get over 350 ~ 420 mbps on one of my plugs.

It may not work for you, but it works for many - including myself.

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Jul 23rd, 2021 5:24 pm

spammy: Sr. Member; Feb 2, 2015; 812 posts; 361 upvotes

Jul 23rd, 2021 5:24 pm

er34er34 wrote: ↑ 170Mbps for a 2Gbps rated adapter? Isn't that pretty bad??

This is not meant for u to have fast internet, but rather stable connections to areas where Wifi may be hard to reach and you can't/don't want to have cables running.

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Jul 23rd, 2021 5:33 pm

goozy1 [OP]: Deal Addict; Aug 7, 2011; 1852 posts; 2742 upvotes; VANCOUVER

Jul 23rd, 2021 5:33 pm

er34er34 wrote: ↑ 170Mbps for a 2Gbps rated adapter? Isn't that pretty bad??

I guess it's mostly marketing BS similar to how Wifi routers like to throw out crazy speed values. These things are not actually rated for 2Gbit throughput. The advertised speeds are only "link rates"of the chipsets they use. Note that the Ethernet ports are Gigabit so there is no way to surpass that.

In reality, you will have a big variation in speeds due to all the variables I mentioned. But for my application, these saved me from hours of running ethernet cable through a complicated/restricted environment.

https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/basics/ ... e-faq-2015

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Jul 23rd, 2021 5:40 pm

neonic: Deal Addict; Jul 20, 2016; 2764 posts; 2813 upvotes; Toronto

Jul 23rd, 2021 5:40 pm

er34er34 wrote: ↑ 170Mbps for a 2Gbps rated adapter? Isn't that pretty bad??

@DragOnT explained well, but also keep in mind that those protocols have a massive overhead - even wifi. so they advertise their peak throughput, but real life, even in "near-perfect" conditions, it's very different - like how we see AC3000, AX6000 and so on barely can get 500 out of it in most cases.

spammy wrote: ↑ This is not meant for u to have fast internet, but rather stable connections to areas where Wifi may be hard to reach and you can't/don't want to have cables running.

Nah. It's meant to be fast. It just that very likely won't due to many factors.

huuuu! (¬'-')¬ C-('-'Q) straight!

Jul 23rd, 2021 5:40 pm

goozy1 [OP]: Deal Addict; Aug 7, 2011; 1852 posts; 2742 upvotes; VANCOUVER

Jul 23rd, 2021 5:40 pm

sks8100 wrote: ↑ I know its more expensive but I would rather opt for Moca 2.5 adapters. I have to say I was contemplating drilling holes in my wall to run more Ethernet wires then stumbled on these last year. Best decision I've ever made. Almost no loss and works with your existing coax cable wiring in the home. I am easily able to get near 100% of the MPS that my router would give out if plugged into the LAN ports. No more lagging Apple TV in our bedroom. I have used Powerline adapters in the past albeit an older version so performance was not to my liking. I'm sure the technology has evolved since but I dont think you get the same performance as Moca adapters. I could be wrong

If you are getting this to just power an Apple TV or firestick it should be more than sufficient. Mine are connected to switches around the house so I needed something more robust.
Thumbs up anyways OP

Yes, I briefly considered MoCa but unfortunately that relies on having coaxial cable available in the source and destination of the planned Ethernet drop. Good option if you have existing cable plugs where they need to be but not as ubiquitous as power power plugs in a home.

Also be aware if you have a cable TV/internet service, there may be interference with MoCa. If it's internet only, there are MoCa filters that can be added to your modem but I don't know if that works for cable TV

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Jul 23rd, 2021 5:42 pm

er34er34: Deal Fanatic; May 4, 2014; 5200 posts; 7055 upvotes; Toronto, ON

Jul 23rd, 2021 5:42 pm

DragOnT wrote: ↑ There are many variables in the equation - such as wiring type, distance, location of the socket, what are currently on, etc.

Just to be fair; I use the AV600 and I get over 350 ~ 420 mbps on one of my plugs.

It may not work for you, but it works for many - including myself.

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Well aware.

What I'm getting at is OP can probably buy a cheaper model like the AV600 you have and achieve the same 170Mbps as with this 2Gbps model.

This is like buying a 10G adapter but running cables only capable of running 1G. If your wiring is that bad, you should just save $ and get a 1G adapter. Make sense?

Jul 23rd, 2021 5:46 pm

goozy1 [OP]: Deal Addict; Aug 7, 2011; 1852 posts; 2742 upvotes; VANCOUVER

Jul 23rd, 2021 5:46 pm

er34er34 wrote: ↑ Well aware.

What I'm getting at is OP can probably buy a cheaper model like the AV600 you have and achieve the same 170Mbps as with this 2Gbps model.

This is like buying a 10G adapter but running cables only capable of running 1G. If your wiring is that bad, you should just save $ and get a 1G adapter. Make sense?

That's actually not necessarily true. I actually replaced a set of TP link powerline adapters that were rated for 500Mbps. I could only get about 20-30 Mbps on those and they were constantly locking up.

Take a look at my Wirecutter article that I posted. The rated speed does not mean much.

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Jul 23rd, 2021 5:51 pm

DragOnT: Deal Addict; Apr 2, 2008; 2629 posts; 2078 upvotes; GTA

Jul 23rd, 2021 5:51 pm

er34er34 wrote: ↑ Well aware.

What I'm getting at is OP can probably buy a cheaper model like the AV600 you have and achieve the same 170Mbps as with this 2Gbps model.

This is like buying a 10G adapter but running cables only capable of running 1G. If your wiring is that bad, you should just save $ and get a 1G adapter. Make sense?

Looks like you are still missing the point. It is just hard to say. It may only be 170 for him/her at that setting; but it could be like 1700 at anohter location / setting.

Anyway, I will stop here. No point to keep going for the numbers.

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Jul 23rd, 2021 5:52 pm

weedb0y: Deal Expert; Aug 6, 2001; 17199 posts; 5097 upvotes; Stuck in a Box

Jul 23rd, 2021 5:52 pm

er34er34 wrote: ↑ 170Mbps for a 2Gbps rated adapter? Isn't that pretty bad??

My tplink from ages ago does 50-70mbps, 2-4ms latency.

I keep it as a backup. Yes for something in 2021, it could be better but this tech just isn’t good, period

HEATware

Jul 23rd, 2021 5:53 pm

trgTyson: Newbie; Jan 27, 2007; 57 posts; 34 upvotes; Toronto

Jul 23rd, 2021 5:53 pm

sks8100 wrote: ↑ I know its more expensive but I would rather opt for Moca 2.5 adapters. I have to say I was contemplating drilling holes in my wall to run more Ethernet wires then stumbled on these last year. Best decision I've ever made. Almost no loss and works with your existing coax cable wiring in the home. I am easily able to get near 100% of the MPS that my router would give out if plugged into the LAN ports. No more lagging Apple TV in our bedroom. I have used Powerline adapters in the past albeit an older version so performance was not to my liking. I'm sure the technology has evolved since but I dont think you get the same performance as Moca adapters. I could be wrong

If you are getting this to just power an Apple TV or firestick it should be more than sufficient. Mine are connected to switches around the house so I needed something more robust.
Thumbs up anyways OP

Moca is great! Though we did have to change our cable routing so that our coax was coming in and right to the modem, then run Moca on the rest of the lines independent (versus using splitters on the incoming line) due to noise levels being introduced to the line from the actiontec adaptors. Not the end of the world, but if you start to have cable internet issues it's worth noting.

Jul 23rd, 2021 5:53 pm

spammy: Sr. Member; Feb 2, 2015; 812 posts; 361 upvotes

Jul 23rd, 2021 5:53 pm

neonic wrote: ↑ Nah. It's meant to be fast. It just that very likely won't due to many factors.

I guess fast is relative, for me at least I was never ever able to get more than 500m in all places I've lived at, on Gigabit internet...but of course some will say even 100 is more than enough for daily use... The speed is definitely nowhere comparable than running a mesh network with eero pro even with wireless backhaul.

Was hoping though that this could allow link aggregation but it doesn't seem to be case, a bit of a waste for two ethernet ports...

Jul 23rd, 2021 6:02 pm

goleafsgo_22: Member; Dec 10, 2003; 409 posts; 71 upvotes

Jul 23rd, 2021 6:02 pm

I am already using D-Link adapters for my basement, but I want to add one more connection on another floor. I f I buy these Netgear adpaters, can I use them to expand on my existing powerline adapter network?

Jul 23rd, 2021 7:18 pm

teeceecee: Newbie; Sep 26, 2016; 59 posts; 103 upvotes

Jul 23rd, 2021 7:18 pm

Just upgraded my old powerline setup to av2 to find out it doesn’t work any better if not worse as I can’t reach the second floor from the basement.

Regrets now as I have 2 kits sitting on a shelf, I will drill a effing hole and fish the damn wire and get full GBe speed, the thing I wanted to avoid would finally have saved me time and money…. Should have read everything against powerline ethernet but I thought since it was working with 200mbs, av2 would be better and all right?. No.

Jul 23rd, 2021 7:29 pm

dillonco: Newbie; Nov 15, 2018; 49 posts; 47 upvotes

Jul 23rd, 2021 7:29 pm

trgTyson wrote: ↑ Moca is great! Though we did have to change our cable routing so that our coax was coming in and right to the modem, then run Moca on the rest of the lines independent (versus using splitters on the incoming line) due to noise levels being introduced to the line from the actiontec adaptors. Not the end of the world, but if you start to have cable internet issues it's worth noting.

What MoCA adapters are you using? My rogers modem/router is MoCA enabled, but I'm having a hard time finding a reasonably priced adapter for the other end.

Jul 23rd, 2021 11:11 pm

CDN_Blizzard: Sr. Member; Oct 31, 2010; 552 posts; 1205 upvotes; Montreal

Jul 23rd, 2021 11:11 pm

I notice this goes on sale for $99 about twice or three times per year. During the last sale, it was sold out from most retailers. And the sale seems to be coordinated at the same time.
OP, you can add dell.ca (OOS) and canadacomputers to the list of retailers.

I have this too and reached a similar performance like what the OP described.

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