Netgear XE102 Powerline Adapter price and reviews

Is unstable with more than 4 devices on network, will loose sight of other deveces for no apparent reason. Device list will drop and reaquire over and over moment to moment.
tossed them and upgraded to wireless 54g.

The device was easy to set up but was not clear about needing to apply software to change passwords. Novice user may not know to do this.

The worst was that the package says it will work with any company's router and this is true. However, when I tried to set up WEP security on the wireless remote devise I could not do so unless my computer has an ip address consistent with ip addresses you would get when using a netgear router.

I have a linksys router so can use the devise just fine if I want my whole neighborhood to be able to tap in.

I can only think that Netgear believes you will go and buy their router to solve this. I will take this devise back and find a linksys model instead.

Now it has become a $150 pain in the neck of wasted time and making a return.

Suffered with Linksys Powerline products for nearly 2 years, which were an absolute nightmare, required constant rebooting of router, dsl modem, and computer, tended to freeze when other computer was accessing the internet via shared dsl (yeah that was a hit with my wife). Took courage based on ratings on this thread, 6 months ago purchased 2 XE102s and 1 FA120 (USB to Ethernet adapter for the notebook which lacks an ethernet jack) and it has been a complete dream! Nearly perfect stability, very fast (no discernable difference between powerline connected computer and the other which is direct ethernet, both measure at 2.4 Mpbs download, 400 kpbs up), almost no need to ever reboot.

Highly recommended

My kids, and consequently I, had suffered long enough with our wireless setup (D-Link DI-624/DWL-G520). That setup had received some very good reviews, but it just wasn't working for us--poor signal, router rebooting, choppy video and audio, and so forth.

I'd heard of powerline networking, and the concept made sense to me. Initially, I had concerns that the wiring in my 15-year old house might present a bottleneck. However, I bought and "installed" two NETGEAR XE102 wall-plugged ethernet bridges, and it's been nothin' but 'net ever since.

I have a 5 Mbps fiber optic connection to my house, and the data rate between these two NETGEAR devices is currently 12.45 Mbps, although I've seen it as high as 13.49 and as low as 10 point something, which as you can see is more than adequate for my internet connection.

One note about the installation: Plug 'em in. It's just...that...simple!