Devolo Magic 2 LAN triple 2400 Mbit/s Ethernet LAN White
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Price: £155.97
Brand: Devolo
Description: Internet from your wall socket: devolo Magics Powerline technology enables you to enjoy a fast stable Internet connection in any room. The Magic 2 LAN triple power socket adapter is equipped with three Gigabit LAN ports with a maximum speed of 2400 Mbps. The Starter Kit design gives you a new Powerline network with the adapter. But you can also use the Magic 2 LAN triple to expand an existing network. This allows you to dispense with a LAN switch in your home office or living room. Notice: devolo Magic adapters are compatible with all routers network devices devolo Magic adapters and products certified by Home Grid Forum. dLAN Powerline adapters and other Home Plug AV products including the devolo Outdoor Wi Fi Powerline adapter are not supported. Three ports for your multi-media centre Because there are three Gigabit LAN ports on the Magic 2 LAN triple adapter one power socket adapter is plenty for going online with the entire multi-media centre in your living room for example. Signal disruption? There are scarcely any in a Powerline network (especially compared to a conventional Wi Fi connection). Devolo Magic 2 LAN triple 2400 Mbit/s Ethernet LAN White - shop the best deal online on appliances4.me
Category: Networking
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Product ID: 224106
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MPN: 8512
EAN: 4250059685123
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Author: D
Rating: 5
Review: Mine are LAN only single port - starter kit and an extra plug. House has tricky wiring as had been extended twice and the attic conversion wiring is also behind an RCD which is known to be tricky for powerline. Install was easy just waiting for them to sync on nearby plugs. Once happy - move to the right locations. They didn’t want to out of the box - I used the sync button. That worked. Note these are note compatible with older standard powerline as it is new standard so you need to be mindful what extra plugs you add. Note, YOU MUST NOT PLUG ANYTHING ELSE into the socket next to your plug to give it the least interference. Plug an extension/splitter into the plug pass through socket instead. My virgin Wi-Fi from the room above the router is 300/60mbit down/upload (1gb virgin). On the old devolo 500 plugs I used to get 15by10 mbit in the attic wired and 8by2mbit on other side of the house Wi-Fi via another router. Both with nasty subjective latencies and the latter dropping often. Clearly limited by powerline. On magic2 I now have 50by40mbit in the attic and 60by40mbit on the other side of the house with what feels like no latency subjectively as websites just jump onto the screen - it feels as good as direct off virgin router right next to it. I’ve not done any NAS tests as my use case is internet. But it is nearly order of magnitude faster for me. It is night and day vs the old powerline so if you have tricky wiring highly recommended. I would not get multi-socket or Wi-Fi enabled ones to reduce possible problems. Each product should do a job it excels at and not aspire to be jack of them all. Need extra LAN sockets get a switch for a tenner and plug it in for extra 6-7 sockets. Need extended Wi-Fi - get an extra router which almost definitely will outperform integrated plug solution.
Author: D. Smith
Rating: 3
Review: I've been using inexpensive TP-Link 500Mbps extenders with additional nodes in my study and home cinema in quite a long house (27m). They worked fine, but over six years the TP-Link powerline transmitter connected to the router died twice, so I decided to upgrade. The devolo Magic 2-2400 Mbps whole house kit replacements are now up and running and provide very good WiFi coverage throughout the whole house, down to 50% in just two spots - one in a bathroom, and are so far stable. They are much larger than the TP-Link units, so large that they cover the mains socket switch they are attached to, and it's a bizarre design decision for a product intended for a domestic environment to have the network ports at the top of the units - this is always going to look ugly, but as the cinema unit is in a cupboard with the projection kit and the other is near the floor in a small study, it doesn't affect me. Installation, however, was a nightmare. Now I am not a network specialist, but I did work in IT consultancy for over 30 years, so am reasonably adept at installing and troubleshooting new software and hardware, and yes, I can read a manual. Reading other reviews, the essential problem seems to be that if you follow the very pared-down installation instructions step by step and it all works first time, you are a happy camper and you'll be up and running in 10 minutes. If it doesn't all work first time you may be entering a world of pain. The full online instruction manual has more pages, but tells you very little more. There is an amusing FAQ on the devolo web site where the question is posed: "How are Magic devices installed?" The "answer" provided is, "The devices connect automatically. You do not have to do anything." Who said the Germans had no sense of humour? On day one I spent approximately 3 hours attempting to install the devices, first pairing them (so that in theory two new devices each with its own security key should appear in your list of wireless connections) and then following the extra steps to create a mesh wireless network (utilising your existing router id and wireless key.) The manual is dumbed down almost to the point of uselessness. One of the first questions is raised when the manual recommends that you "make a note of the Wi-Fi key on the back of the devolo Magic adapter". At this point you pause because in the "whole home" kit you have two devolo Magic adapters, so which one do I use? The installation manual is specifically for the whole home kit, and has a picture of the three devices on the front... but there is no mention anywhere of the two WiFi keys question. In fact the manual has a space on the back page where you can write down "the" WiFi key. This point was also raised in a magazine review, where they suggested that maybe it's the first one you connect (it turns out that isn't necessarily so, for me it was the second.) It's not a large point, but it became significant later. Not being a complete idiot I wrote down the two WiFi keys, and Post-it noted each unit approprately, and also the security key on the transmitter unit (this key not mentioned in the manual at all) and of my existing hub/router itself. I also noted the steps I took on each attempt. By the way, the manual also said in English "the WiFi key on the back of the devolo Magic adapter". The other six languages said (in translation) "the WiFi key on the back of the devolo Magic WiFi adapter". So it became advisable to check some of the other language instructions at each step in case any other important words had been omitted in English. I followed all steps to pair the units. Unfortunately the manual doesn't call it "pairing" at this point and this becomes important when you recognise there are two processes to perform, pairing the units to create interlinked WiFi nodes, and THEN creating a meshed WiFi network with one unified WiFi key cloned from your hub. For the first process the manual refers to "connecting", "encryption", and then "set up WiFi connection on your smartphone etc." In the second process it does say that you can "Optionally use Mesh technology to connect all devolo Magic adapters and your router to a contiguous network..." Much later in the manual, after describing the indicator lights/buttons in six languages it mentions "Help: If automatic pairing during initial installation was unsuccessful, you can carry our manual pairing of the Magic adapters." Note that this is the first mention of the word "pairing" or "pair" and it's completely unclear whether this is a manual alternative to the first or second process! I managed to get one Magic WiFi adapter connected (white Powerline Connector light) and one not (red PLC). I had one devolo-460 listed in available WiFi connections, but neither of the WiFi keys worked (and nor did the main unit's security key, nor the router's WiFi key: I even tried them using the SSID on the back of each unit - Nada! I think I know what happened here. The unit that hadn't fully connected was the one supplying the WiFi key, not the WiFi key of the one that had connected, so I couldn't log on to the devolo-460 connection. Once again, "devolo-460" wasn't mentioned in the manual. I repeated this twice more and finally got all white lights. So, after 2 hours of fafffing about that was the "You do not have to do anything" part of the FAQ completely sorted! Now the Meshing. That just made things worse and I ended up with one WiFi unit's PLC light flashing white, the other flashing red. I couldn't log in to anything except my router, I still had the unloginable devolo-460 showing in my list of connections, and despite several attempts to reset to factory defaults I was unconvinced the units had actually reset. Three hours gone. Next morning I tried once more with no luck. I phoned the devolo help desk and was pleased to be number 2 in the queue, then quickly number 1, where I sat for 20 minutes. I though maybe this indicates they only have one help desk operator, and/or each problem takes about 20 minutes. Finally spoke a help-desk, a rather dour German who was abruptly dismissive of my attempts to enter the LAN unit's security key or the router WiFi key, before I explained in exasperation that if nothing else works you are led to attempt the implausible. After 35 minutes of starting from scratch we finally got through both processes to create a mesh WiFi system. Thirty-five minutes! That tells you that this was NOT straightforward. Several steps we had to repeat as they didn't "take" first time, and one step (creating the mesh) we had to repeat three times, moving the WiFi adapter closer and closer to the router until it managed to sync with the router's WPS process. When all that was done I located the units where they should be and they all reconnected fine, and (only 4 days later) everything seems stable. Main problems are an under-written installation guide that gives you no clue what to do if any step fails, sloppy structure and language translation where in an attempt to simplify things they manage to obscure meaning (e.g. "connection" or "basic installation" used instead of "pairing"; and "pairing" only used when describing how to use "manual pairing" when "automatic pairing" has failed - when by now you are not sure which of two processes this is. The fact it took 35 minutes to talk through and carry out the installation process for two WiFi adapters (it really was automatic with the TP-Link units) shows that when you have problems, you REALLY have problems, that can take a help-desk techie some time to bash through. So, including 55 minutes on the phone (including the 20 in the queue) that was a total of FOUR HOURS.
