Best Powerline Computer Network Adapters
2x2 MIMO with Beam forming establishes multiple simultaneous connections for you to enjoy higher power line speeds and greater stability.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"These work great as long as you know what to expect."
"To give some rough numbers for speeds: - I have a 75Mbps/75Mbps internet connection. - No matter how far apart I put these devices, internet speed tests at the furthest device never dropped below 75/75. - Computer-to-computer speeds with my old AV600 powerline adapters were roughly 70-80Mbps. - Computer-to-computer speeds with these AV1200 devices are roughly 110-120Mbps, so about a 50% improvement. I have a pair of the 500Mbps adapters, a pair of the 600Mbps ones, and now these 1200Mbps adapters, and they all work together seamlessly."
"An absolutely great product, I used them to extend my home network to my detached garage and works flawlessly."
"Was looking forward to this, however after receiving the item and trying to plug it in, I noticed it would not plug into my outlet due to the fact that the adapter is a bit too tall to leave space for the outlet below to plug in."
"This made my WiFi soar in speed! Thank you for letting us finally utilize our WiFi."
"After messing around for WEEKS with wifi extenders with ethernet ports, I was at my wits' end."
"The connection provided by the TP-Link unit is as stable as a traditional wired connection and the Apex is able to reconnect automatically after power outages."
"Was very worried when researching base on some issue peopke had with powerlines in general."
POWER SAVING - Patented Power-Saving Mode automatically reduces power consumption by up to 85%.128-bit AES encryption ensures that the network is safe simply by pressing a button on paired devices.Up to 300 meter range over a home's electrical circuit for better performance through walls or across floors.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My 14 year old daughter was throwing a stereotypical teenage girl conniption fit that her wireless kept dropping out, had a 1mbps downstream, and was generally poo."
"I've been a Network Engineer for over 10 years and ever since I've dealt with computers, cabling is one of the worst aspects of the job. When Powerline technology came out it added convenience of using existing power cabling but still was a little flaky and troublesome. When it came time to buy originally back in July 2012, I put a lot of research into looking into the latest powerline solution for my home. Despite the insane price point (currently $87.99 on Amazon - 12/13/2013; I bought these for $108 back in July 2012), the Netgear adapters worked wonderfully in my home. When multiple devices would start streaming things like Netflix and I was doing transfers from my media server to a PC, Netflix would stutter and my WiFi throughput would literally crawl slower than a snail on a salt bed. That's when I realized I needed to invest in more Powerline Adapters for certain rooms to speed up transfers as well as help reduce the load of my WiFi network. I mean after all, I had a word of mouth approval from a friend and you can't argue saving over $50 vs another set of my Netgear adapters... the result? While this normally won't matter to a lot of people, it will tell you whether you are having degraded performance within your home's electrical wiring."
"I was dumb and didn't read directions - you must plug into outlet (not a power strip) or the signal will degrade."
"I unboxed and although the reviews and instructions say not to plug into a power strip I did anyway and on both sides. All I did was plug in the adapters, plug in the Cat5 cables, power on the DVR and the router, Push the two link buttons (not at the same time) on the adapters and I was streaming live video on my android phone."
"Anyway, I was going to just run a CAT-5 cable, but when I priced out a 150' cable, it was the same price as these adapters, so I figured I'd give these a try first. As soon as I made the connection, I instantly got 30mb/s speeds."
Multiple data streams (MIMO) with Beam forming technology offer improved coverage. Package contents : Two Powerline 1200 + Extra Outlet Adapters (PLP1200), Two (2) 2m (6.5ft) Ethernet cables, Quick install Guide.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"At first glance I though some phone line plugs in the wall were actually Internet wiring done through the apartment but sadly since I did not look at it long enough until setting my setup I had the displeasure to find out that was not the case. So now I had to figure out how to get internet to my setup without running a long wire through our new apartment without the wife killing me for destroying the aesthetics of the place. So second option would be to try one of these and hope that the wiring in the apartment was up to par because if that is not the case this things are actually useless from hat I hear."
"After doing some research, I was shocked to discover the technology has actually been around for about 10 years (150 if you count flip switches) and that it works. I get about 25 mb/s of internet speed with well over 100 mb/s on LAN (of which I use only to talk to my modem; sorry, look at a different review for more intricate home networking)."
"Instant wired network for a desktop PC upstairs that could not support a wireless connection. 45/45 running the network through the wiring in my house."
"Outback has a website where you can monitor your solar system and battery charge levels remotely but we needed a way to get the data from the PV closet to the internet."
"I suppose there's nothing that can be done about the limitations of physics and carrying a data signal over power lines, though."
"Updated review: I decided to go ahead and change it to 5 stars for not needing reboots after months of up time."
"Solved my wireless internet connection problems."
"Bought this on September 9 and just now on the 25th after coming back home from work my desktop has trouble connecting to the internet."
Best Laptop Computer Network Adapters
Do More Convenience with your WiFi USB Adapter: With AC600 wireless AC adapter, you can shift between 2.4GHz and 5GHz WiFi bands to avoid interference and have optimal WiFi Internet connection for your PC,laptop or Mac. High Speed: Up to 600Mbps Wi-Fi speeds on 5GHz (433Mbps) or 2.4GHz (150Mbps) bands: Performance to reduce freezing and lags when streaming and gaming.Ultra-fast AC600 wireless adapter speed with 802.11ac.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I bought 4 of these, and everyone was simple to install on different aged, and different manufactured computers all with different operating systems."
"I like that it has a standard antenna 'pigtail' connector."
"Best thing I have bought for my laptop. The wifi adapter built into my laptop only worked on the 2.4 band. I added this USB adapter."
"For those who are interested in technical details, the chipset used is "Realtek RTL8811AU Wireless LAN 802.11ac". The following is snippet of dmesg from Linux: [11256968.529081] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 69 using ehci-pci. [11256968.622105] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=a811. [11256968.622111] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3. [11256968.622114] usb 1-1.2: Product: 802.11ac WLAN Adapter. [11256968.622116] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Realtek. [11256968.622118] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001. Antenna is detachable and can be replaced with a higher dB antenna for better reception, but the one comes with is pretty good enough!"
"The only issue I had was if this became unplugged that it would have a hard time reconnecting after it was plugged back in."
"My room in the further end of the house and isn't really close to the internet modem, but this product has proven to help quite a bit."
"With this little gem I was able to increase my speeds on laptop to almost 70 MBPS."
"The adapter works well to this day. It’s definitely not a computer issue as the other adapters work fine in the computers, and these bad adapters fail in 3 different computers."
Best Bluetooth Computer Network Adapters
Adds Bluetooth support to Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, or Linux PCs that don't already have it. Supports Bluetooth speakers, headphones, headsets, keyboards, mice, and more. Some audio devices, such as the Bose QuietComfort 35, require downloading specific drivers to function in Windows 7.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I have a great Bluetooth headphones (Satechi Aluminum Bluetooth Wireless Headphones) that I wanted to use at my work computer so I would not distract my other co-workers. The Plugable Technologies allows any non Bluetooth accessible computer or laptop to have Bluetooth capabilities to use with Bluetooth headphones, mice, speakers, keyboards, etc."
"To test it out, I took out my PS4 Bluetooth controller, held down the pairing buttons(briefing holding down the Playstation button while the Share button was held down), and in about 30 seconds total, Windows 10 had finished the process of pairing and connecting my controller via Bluetooth - simple, quick, and magnificent."
"After the initial pairing, connecting it after turning it off is quite quick, and it works with DS4 windows so you can change aspects like the controller light bar color, remap buttons (for emulating a xbox 360 controller in some pc games), or turn off rumble."
"After several hours spent installing, uninstalling drivers, chatting with Microsoft (zero help there...cookie cutter answers that said nothing + made me diagnostic tool that also found nothing) I was dead in the water with wireless bluetooth headphones that worked before the MS update and now only worked with a wire."
"I really like the products from Plugable."
"This works fairly well with my wireless headphones."
"Bought this for my work computer to connect my blue tooth head phones (Skull Candy Grind wireless: LOVE!)."