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Devolo MicroLink dLAN Highspeed Starter Kit | 
 enlarge | Brand: Devolo
Category: CE
Buy New: £45.00
New (16) from £45.00
Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 622
Platform: Windows
Media: Electronics
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.6 x 3.3
MPN: 1154
Model: 1154
EAN: 4250059611542
ASIN: B000A7IE7Y
Release Date: July 18, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
2 Highspeed HomePlug Ethernet adapters for 85Mbps PC networking & Internet access extension over your existing household power circuit The MicroLink dLAN Highspeed Starter Kit is the first product to offer data transfers of up to 85 Mbps over your existing household power circuit. This new high-speed generation of devolo MicroLink dLAN adapters now opens up a whole new range of possibilities. In addition to extending your existing broadband connection around the house, this latest standard ensures that PCs can exchange large files over the electricity mains without long delays, and even videos in DVD quality can be transferred over your household electricity circuit. In combination with IP-TV (Internet Protocol-TV), video on demand can be an impressive experience anywhere in the home, wherever theres a power socket! MicroLink dLAN Highspeed adapters are highly secure, equipped with automatic DESpro encryption and are fully backwards compatible with the popular MicroLink dLAN products currently supporting 14Mbps transfer rates. As MicroLink dLAN adapters communicate over your existing electricity network, they are particularly well suited to old buildings and houses; MicroLink dLAN adapters dont suffer from typical WLAN obstacles like thick walls and multi-floors. - 85 Mbps high speeds! The high-speed transfer rates of up to 85 Mbps now make it possible to transmit video or IP-TV in DVD quality, transfer large files or carry out heavy-weight data backups effortlessly across your existing household power circuit. - Fast Internet! The MicroLink dLAN Highspeed Starter Kit combined with an ADSL or Cable modem router can allow all networked PCs to easily surf the Internet together. - Easy Network Management! The software utility MicroLink Easyshare and the monitor program MicroLink Informer offer you full control over the networks activities and infrastructure. - Substantial software package! The package includes printed manuals along with v
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Excellent product!!! September 1, 2008
internetmaster (Gloucestershire, England)
I have broadband in my lounge and plugged the router's network/LAN cable into one Devolo plug and had the other plug in a bedroom connected to my PC. The network connection just works. I didn't need the CD, just the plugs and cables which come with it. 85Mb is great but if you are running broadband over it, you don't need the speed. These homeplugs are just great, cheap and need no setting up.
DON'T DELAY BUY IT TODAY August 16, 2008
Mr. David A. Snoddy (BELFAST)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
OVERALL - VERY IMPRESSED WITH PREFORMANCE AND EASY OF INSTALLATION
WHY DID I BUY THIS ?
-health concerns with WLAN. Lets face it, on health grounds it aint proven technology. Dont really want to risk my kids health for the ease of using WLAN
-transmission speeds in the house. WLAN is always 50% that quoted on the box at best.
REVIEW
-VERY VERY easy, it's practically plug and play. Load the CD plug in 2 adapters and you're up and running
-EXCELLENT TRANSMISSION SPEEDS.
Speed at router 5.15mg (RUNNING OFF ROUTER DIRECTLY)
Speed on Devolo 5.09mg (FURTHEREST PART OF HOUSE 3RD STOREY)
Speed on WLAN 2.30mg (RIGHT BESDIE WLAN ROUTER)
- No variability across rings in Consumer Unit (CU). Was worried about the transmission in rooms on seperate rings in CU. I tested at furtherest part of house with the adapter on a 4 plug extension and still 5.09mg that's about a 1% drop from router to limit of house, I can live with that. (Maybe cause I still have fuses and not individual circuit breakers in the CU.).
OVERALL VERY IMPRESSED WOULD RECOMMEND WITH HESITATION
OMG better than 5*, 8 minutes 26 seconds from cold start... August 10, 2008
Marc Eisenstadt
... and that (true manual stopwatch time) includes booting up my laptop, opening and unpacking the Devolo box, finding a 'socket doubler' to make room for the gizmo, and searching for my laptop's external CD/DVD drive that I basically never use (so I could insert the Devolo installation CD-ROM); and guess what... I couldn't find the external drive, BUT IT DIDN'T MATTER... I just plugged the supplied blue boxes into power sockets - one near my DSL modem, one near my laptop far away in the house, then plugged in the respective ethernet cables as supplied, and that was it... now here I am writing this review (Amazon login time not counted in the 8 minutes 26 seconds). I reckon the actual 'Develo powerline networking' part of this little run took under a minute: how long does it take to plug in two boxes and two cables? That's all I had to do.
In fact, the earlier reviews (and some annoying WiFi configuration problems) are what caused me to give this a try. I normally can't be bothered to write reviews, but these guys deserve it...
In terms of payoff for effort invested, this wins my all-time gadget prize... I'm going to buy some more for other rooms in the house... not that I'm paranoid about wireless radiation or anything (heh, another of my hidden motivations for this experiment...), but just from a performance point of view, this solves all my domestic networking problems...
What's my actual connection speed? Who cares? It's infinitely higher than 0, which is what I had before, and subjectively speaking, it's blazing... that's all I need to know. Anyway, whatever it is, it is at least 10 times higher than my DSL speed, so I really don't care... Thank you Devolo... where have you been all my (networking) life?
amazing just does what it says on the tin ! June 26, 2008
Paul Warwick (Ireland)
I just plugged it in & it worked first time no set up to do, no problems
A top quality product
 Superb networking device! May 13, 2008
Stevie (Somerset UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having tried countless wireless connections, this product appeared to be what I've been looking for. As with other reviews, it was extremely easy to set-up and I had the unit working within 15 mins. Does exactly what its meant to do, without any fuss! My only negative comment is the advertised speed of 85Mb...? I could only manage 58Mb so far, but this is more than adequate for my use and I would definately recommend this unit to family and friends. Well done Devolo!
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