slick and iron agreement on this this is magical this is like more magical than
the iPad which the late Steve Jobs
declared to be magical therefore it is magical this is magical this is a
powerline AV wireless network extender
an existing inhome powerline network is required for use okay understood the
plw400 what does it do it easily extends your
wired and wireless network coverage in your home yes your wired and wireless
network coverage in your home you know I'm going to go find that okay so if you
already have one of these where you got like you know your power line like
somewhere you know this is where where your router is in your modem this is in
like Johnny's room to power his computer because you know the walls are made of
lead or the paint is lead or you know you know you really shouldn't use lead
paint your kids will be like damaged by that okay so Johnny's room is painted
with lead and wireless doesn't work so we have power line running to there so
we buy this third adapter which just automatically like syns up with the
other guys you might have to press the sync button whatever no big deal what
this does maybe we take this down to like the media room in the basement okay
so you use the network Jack here to plug
into okay we'll let we'll just start this looks like trying to look closely
at the tiny picture on the box it's like why are we doing this we're just going to open it anyway there we go there we
go so we use the Ethernet port on the bottom to run to like a switch which
powers like the the media PC and the TV
with Ethernet and all the gadgets that I'm sure you can all you know have and
in your media room that everyone has a media room I don't have a medor room but
um right so that goes there and then because it's in the basement it's far
away and you use lead paint in your house or for whatever reason you don't
have good Wireless reception it also extends your wireless network so it's a
range extender that doesn't have your bandwidth because it's using half of its
signal to send and half of it signal to receive and it's like bridging these two
zones this is a range extender that has
wired essentially as the backbone and then it just has a wireless like it
creates a little like Wireless extension Hotpot wherever it happens to be so this
is the most magical thing ever because now instead of going you know trying to
boost the signal to your antenna or like Buy a wireless extender you just throw
these all over your house and you'll have like just the most Beast possible
wireless coverage throughout your entire house just by using little guys like
this and because Wireless bandwidth is so inconsequential even though these are
only 200 megabit per second that wired
connection it's still more than enough for anything you would do wirelessly on
something like a tablet or a phone or whatever else the case may be we have an
Ethernet cable that is included we have a setup to CD which you should no I
don't know go ahead and use it actually Link's stuff is pretty good like it
doesn't waste a lot of your time and it's pretty straightforward okay package
contents wire transfer speeds up to 200 it's 2.4 GHz so it's not dual band or
anything fancy like that but it gives you extended home coverage and it has a
1000 Ethernet port which is all it really
needs supports WPS I think that's pretty much it so if
you guys don't understand yet how magical this is like like Post in the
comments and let either me or one of the other users to uh like help you
understand that it's magical because it really is there's a reset switch here
protection button WPS all your indicator LEDs onoff switch
and your Ethernet port and the plug that goes into the wall thank you for
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