NETGEAR - Powerline 1000 Network Extender - White

My home office is in the back of the house, opposite where the wifi and router are in the den. Air routers proved worthless, so the choice was to run a 200' ethernet cable to the rear of the house, or something I hadn't heard of till recently but network extenders that use the wires in the house to send the signal. Viola! I had signal, and not the 115mbs that comes into the house, but a respectable 25-35mbs, which I suppose would be more had I gone the ethernet cable route, but for work (Covid quarantined working from home) it does just fine.

I have had this for almost 2 years now and it still works great. Had a couple of hiccups through the time but they still work great.

I bought this for a friend because he kept lagging every time we played online games together git sick of loosing. so I bought this item to boost his single now I'm the only one loosing and he is kicking button again

I've only had these for a short time bu I don't know if I can get Best Buy to take them back. They drop the connections every hour or so! Furthermore I have no wiring problems. This is a brand new house!

I wasn't familiar with powerlines until a day ago, and I was ready to buy an wireless extender for nearly twice the price of this. I had my doubts about using a wireless network extender because our router is in the kitchen upstairs, and I needed to get a better signal to our basement office on the opposite end of the house. I liked the science behind the powerline and the price, so I gave it a shot. This thing was plug and go, and my internet speeds increased by five times. It's basically like being connected right into our modem.

Needed a way to connect a desktop that i just bought to our home network. Didnt have a wireless card in pc and area that pc is located is in a poor wireless signal area. For a simple and inexpensive solution this works great. My only reason for 4 stars is that the only open wall outlet that i had open was about 10 feet from the router and i have a ethernet cable showing in my living room.

I recently purchased this for connecting my self-built desktop computer to the internet via an ethernet connection in a home that has two stories and is roughly 1800 sq/ft. My computer being located on the bottom back right corner, and the wifi router being upstairs in the front left (literally as far as it could be) I often times got a unstable wifi connection that dropped even the simplest of online games like Minecraft and Overwatch. Getting this solved that all, even despite some reviewers not having the best of luck with this item. The instructions were pretty straightforward on the setup side, even down to turning on the encryption feature was a snap. As soon as I got it up and running, I went from a roughly 12 Mbps download to a 25 Mbps, which is amazing considering we pay for 35 Mbps AND are using a set of wires not dedicated to internet connectivity. Best of all, I no longer have any spikes in speed, so I can do all I want to, even play online multiplayer, without being kicked off. Now we shall see with time how well this holds on!

I initially both these because I thought they were going to allow me to improve signal to 2 different computers that were furthest from my router. When they arrived and I saw that you had to connect the modem directly to one and plug it into an outlet to send the signal through your home’s wiring to the other unit I was going to return them to get a wireless booster. But after I watched the product video on the Best Buy website I realized I could improve signal strength throughout the house by using these to move my router into the middle of our home, which doesn’t have a cable inlet so I never considered it before because I can’t place the modem there. Instead of the router being in one corner of the house with weak signal in the upstairs bedrooms on the other side of the house where my kids were trying to connect for school meetings, with the router now in the center of the house the signal is strong everywhere.