Devolo Magic 2 WiFi NEXT Starter Kit - Amazon Only
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Price: £197.76
Brand: Devolo
Description: Devolo Magic 2 Wifi Next Starter Kit - Amazon Only. Devolo Magic 2 WiFi NEXT Starter Kit - Amazon Only - shop the best deal online on appliances4.me
Category: Networking
Merchant: Quzo
Product ID: 304625
Delivery time: Next Day
Delivery cost: 0
MPN: 8724
EAN: 4250059687240
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: David Wilson
Rating: 3
Review: "Magic WiFi" - it is when it works, but it's flaky. This generation is easier to set up than previous versions, but generally doesn't reset itself when the router drops the signal (rural Somerset, so not an uncommon occurence) - have to go through the whole setup procedure again each time. A pain. Adaptors also get very hot, which can't be good for them. I have a "master + 3 slave" setup to cope with a sprawling area. I bought the new set in September - but in December the master died and it took 3 attempts for Devolo's (usually excellent) tech support to diagnose the problem . The printed material doesn't have a usable trouble-shooting guide, and the online one (like having the instructions for opening the box sealed in the box!) isn't much better. Amazon, as usual were excellent & replaced the set promptly. Today (1 Feb) it went down again - tech support have again got it working but ..... When it's working the Devolo kit works seamlessly - but if I could find a reliable way of doing the same job, I'd dump the Devolo kit in a heartbeat.