Customer Ratings & Reviews

These were a great purchase! Was tired of the wifi connection busting up at times, or lagging. Couldn't figure out an easy way to run cat5/6. Stumbled upon these, and didn't look back. Was skeptical at first, but they work great. Never an outage, and performance is fantastic. Was faster than the wifi, and I love that it's a secure connection.

Never seen this before but sends internet across power lines. Plug Ethernet cable into Netgear outlet and modem. Plug other Netgear outlet end into receptical near device you want to supply with Ethernet cable. Has a single power outlet on each Netgear outlet so you can plug things in that you may have unplugged. Does not work by plugging into power bar... must be a wall power receptical. The techie at Best buy said may run into other problem and that is your main panel has two bars on it to supply breakers.... if the receptical you plug into isn't wired to a breaker on the same bar side as the receptical you are getting signal from it appearantly doesn't work. So you have a 50/50 chance of it working. In my case it does. And really well. My speed test on the modem is 92 and the speed test on the other side came up at 74 so that is pretty respectable, certainly better than Wi-Fi. Don't forget if it doesn't work then you can take it back at Best Buy and get a range extender. This is also expandable so you can buy more Netgear outlets and pick up the signal in other locations. Remember range extenders don't always work because of dense walls and other electronic interference.

This product works awesome! It has helped my son with his connection.

I am disappointed in the performance of the PLP2000. I recently upgraded from 100Mbps broadband to newly-available 250 Mbps fiber. My challenge is that my house was not wired for ethernet and the design makes it hard to retroactively install. Compounding this, the service entry is at a distant location from the living area and in a closet. I bought the PLP2000 to bridge from my ISP's router to my Netgear Nighthawk X6S AC3000, Tri-Band WiFi Router, Model R7900P, located in the center of the house where is has been installed since purchased. When close to the ISP's router, a speedtest shows 250+ Mbps up and download. However, the fastest I've seen with the PLP2000 is about 157 Mbps -- and this is when I connected the 2 PLP2000 units to the same electric outlet by using a 50' heavy duty extension cord! I more typically see about 150 Mbps through the house wiring. I believe the 2 outlets being used are on the same phase since, when I tried a different outlet, throughput dropped to less than 10 Mbps which probably means the signal traversed between the 2 units both through the house wiring and out to and back from the utility transformer. While I was dubious the PLP2000 would perform at the advertised gigabit speeds, this is much worse than I expected. And I wonder what Netgear really expects when I note the "Pick a Plug LED" has 3 levels of expected performance and the highest is ">80 Mbps (best)”. If they expected gigabit service, wouldn't this be at least 500 - 800 Mbps? The other problem is that the outlet available is a GFI, and when connecting or disconnecting the PLP2000 unit, the GFI frequently trips. Once successfully connected, it operates without trouble. On the positive side, the setup was easy, the units connect very quickly, and the PLP2000 appears to be stable albeit much slower than expected. Finally, as others have pointed out, the PLP2000 is large and blocks the other outlet for most electrical plugs (I have found a few older plugs will fit). So, I could only recommend the PLP2000 to someone not expecting performance greater than 150 Mps. I’m now thinking I should have just bit the bullet and bought a mesh WiFi system.

Works just as designed - provides strong internet speeds between our router and the computer.

Was a little skeptical have heard good and bad things about them but they ended up working out pretty good with decent speed and keeps what was disconnecting with WIFI intermittently connected now with no drop out.

I needed to feed my Ethernet to a router near my entertainment center and didn't want to run a cable. This pair fit the bill perfectly. Easy setup and fast performance. Keep in mind that the units encroach a bit above the outlet they're plugged into; you can still plug in a 2-prong plug above them but not a 3-prong. That could be an issue for some, so it is good to know in advance. Very happy with my purchase.

I was freaking out when I found out how much it is to get hardware connection wired through your house. Even doing it by yourself is and of itself ridiculous. This thing ROCKS! It comes with two; you plug one powerline into an AC port by the router(or modem), and then use an Ethernet cable it came with to hardwire it to one of the two (if you are out of Ethernet slots on your router, you can buy extra). After that, take the other to a room that you need hardwired (mine is my room since I just built my high end PC and hate WiFi). After that, sync them together which takes less than a minute seconds and BOOM THATS IT! Never have I had a problem with this the 3 months I’ve had it. Totally recommend. The higher it goes, the more chance you have of having better internet with it (even if yours isn’t good such as mine). Plus, you WANT the extra Ethernet port in it. It’s WORTH IT. One goes to PC other to my Xbox which uses apps and Netflix.

I was having trouble getting wifi in the back room. an associate at best buy turned me onto this device that transmitted the signal using the wall outlet. the results are night and day with this one. internet speeds are twice as fast with mine. I performed speed tests with and without and it truly works alot better. I would recommend this product

Works as described and easy to set up. Simply plug one of the devices directly into a wall outlet with an ethernet connection to your router. Plug the second device into a wall outlet and the ethernet cable into your computer....done, wired internet connection. I current have the Fios 1gb connection and while using the Netgear, fasted speed I get is around 150mb upload/download. Definitely does the job.

Used this to run from my house to my detached garage. Took some tweaking but once I found the best outlet to it works like a charm.

I bought this device so that I would not have to run ethernet cable in the house. I wanted to install a small form computer by my television so that I can get on the LAN and see my security cameras on the TV also have internet access. The TV is in another room and I did not know if it was on another circuit breaker or not. Bottom line is it worked and I am getting the 3 lights for maximum speed.

Bought this product to avoid having 50 foot ethernet cable running down the hallway to connect my wifes desk phone when her company had her WFH. Easy to setup and works great. Only con is the device takes up too much space to plug in another device on the outlet.

Great alternative to wiring our home with network cable! The Powerline 2000 works great in getting fast speeds through our existing electrical outlets, taking away the need to rely on spotty Wi-Fi our upstairs rooms get. A simple and straight-forward setup will get you going in minutes.

The item itself is great, but I WILL NEVER ORDER ANYTHING THROUGH BEST BUY, EVER!!!! The product is very easy to work, and it work great throughout my house. Very easy to hook up, and it works at every additional place, that I plugged it into! They will never publish this, BB, thinks that they can do no wrong.

Quick, easy setup that works as advertised! Solved the buffering problem while streaming in our living room. I never knew this technology existed until now.

Purchased this for my home office. Router upstairs and office in basement. Could not be farther away and needed the high speed for my office. My son had used for his gaming and swore by it for having the full speed and being able to hook up via ethernet. He was spot on perfect. Very easy to set up, and simple to use. Would highly recommend.

I bought this to speed up the WiFi access in my room. I game and was struggling with my internet lagging. This product was easy to install and made an immediate difference in the internet speed in my room. I plan to bring a set to college with me to increase the internet speed in my dorm room.

I always buy Netgear products for quality and easy installation. However, this product is not perfect yet and needs a lot of patience and tweaking. I am very computer and networks savvy so I'm typically comfortable with installation. However, for this product initially had to reset it to factory default few times till I got it to work. Further, you need to run it few days till it is really stable and you get the ALL GREEN lights. If you see the red light don't be alarmed but the units goes to sleep mode so the light turns red which is confusing during installation given you don't know that you picked a good location or not. Highly priced, but it is high speed internet over power so buy it if you really need it otherwise I don't recommend.

Got tired of relying on wifi, almost doubled the speed of my downloads by using this. The outlet function is the only thing i wish was better. It's a bit bulky so it almost blocks the second outlet and makes it unusable for anything relying on the 3 prong. You might be able to squeeze in a small android charger on the second outlet, but a iPhone cube brick charger will not fit right above this on the second outlet you would have to use the outlet attached to this proofing l product instead. Only downside so far.