I love power line. I cannot emphasize that enough. This is the Lynxys PLSK
400. This is a power line kit that not
only communicates but also acts as a
well yeah okay communicates. So, this is a 200 megabit per second power line kit,
which is adequate for, you know, probably a single HD stream and then
some additional, you know, surfing traffic and whatnot. So, what's most
interesting about this particular kit is what you're going to see on the bottoms
of on the bottom of one of the adapters. So, we've got the one adapter here. This
is a pretty normal looking power line adapter. What I do like about it is that
it plugs directly into the wall. Um, some of them are more for positioning
away from the wall. And, uh, while that's good from a heat dissipation
perspective, it's not necessarily great from a convenience and, um, sightliness.
I don't know. I don't know if sightly is something you can say. You could say unsightly, but yeah, I'm not really
sure. Um, sorry, from that perspective.
Yeah. So, it plugs in directly into the wall. Okay. You've got your uh standby
reset button right here. On the other side, you've got your link button so you
can get it to communicate and link up with everything all the other power line
devices in your house that are compatible. We've got one network port
here. We've got ventilation holes. Looks like a standard power line adapter. Now,
look at this one. Aha. This one's actually a little bit bigger. Oh, look
at that. It's significantly bigger. Okay. We've got all of our indicators
here, including the computer activity LED, the home activity LED, as well as
the power uh LED. Same buttons except on
the side this time instead of one of them being on the bottom. And on the bottom, ha 1 2 3 4. So, what is this
good for? What is special about the PLSK400?
What's special about it is you take this guy, you plug it in next to your router,
you plug your router into it. Now, your power lines in your house are networking
enabled. And then you take this guy and you put it somewhere where you have a
whole bunch of devices. So what this does is it this these are all 10100
ports and it acts as a as a switch. So
what that means is if you throw one of these in your media center, you plug in
your PS3 and your Xbox and your media PC
and your Okay, let's say you only have one console. Sorry, sorry. Back up. Back
up. Okay, so you plug in your Xbox, you plug in your media PC, you plug in your
TV to deliver firmware updates and whatnots or whatever else. And then you
got one more and you plug in Oh, I had another thing I wanted to plug in, but now I've forgotten. Oh, your network
media player there. There. So, you put all of these guys in here. Now, they're
all able to communicate via power line with your router, and you don't have to
have an actual switch plugged in behind your media center. So, it's just a
cleaner way to set up the network in your household with power line, uh,
rather than breaking this out into a switch and then running everything all over the place. That's pretty much it.
So, thank you for checking out my unboxing
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awesome. If you're not using Power Line in your house, you should use Power Line in your house because it's really easy
to set up. It's much faster and more reliable than wireless. And unlike
wireless, it is really good. Get these
or other power line or these. Power line is awesome. You should have it.