XE102G Wall-plugged Ethernet Extender Kit

Average customer rating: 3.5

Nice product
So far, so good. Make sure you plug it directly into a wall outlet.
Wrong Choice For Me
EXCELLENT SELLER SUPER FAST DELIVERY
Great, when it works

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XE102G Wall-plugged Ethernet Extender Kit

Manufacturer: Netgear
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000ERAIQ0

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Product Description

For a truly simple way to bring the Internet to any room in your home, look no further than NETGEAR's Wall-Plugged Ethernet Bridge. It plugs into an electrical outlet and uses your existing electrical wiring to give your entire household access to your Cable/DSL connection. With no expensive new wiring or cabling to install, your family can surf the Web, participate in online gaming, send and receive e-mail, and share files and printers, all from different rooms at the same time. Uncomplicated and very quick to install, it plugs right into a wall outlet, reducing clutter and saving valuable desk space. Designed for ease of use, it has new, easy-to-read icon LEDs, and protects your network communications from eavesdroppers and hackers, while not increasing your electricity bill.Wall-Plugged Ethernet Bridge networks your PCs and shares a Cable/DSL Internet connection using existing 110V electrical outlets in your home. Automatic rate adaptation chooses the best data rate depending on the level of interference caused by other electrical appliances. It is compatible with 10 Mbps or 10/100 Mbps Ethernet products, and it also works seamlessly with NETGEAR Cable/DSL routers.This kit includes two Wall-Plugged Ethernet Bridges XE102.

Customer Reviews:

Nice product.......2007-03-31

Opened the box plugged in the two units, did not work. Unplugged the unit and replugged it in .... worked perfectly. Total installation time 3 minutes. Great way to extend your Internet coverage.

So far, so good. Make sure you plug it directly into a wall outlet........2007-03-14

I'm surprised at how well this product worked with my setup. I wanted my old iMac G3 running OSX downstairs to be able to access the wireless network, which was based upstairs. Upstairs, my other computer is a Windows XP PC, which is physically connected to a cable modem router that's physically connected to a wireless router.

For my situation, installing the Netgear Ethernet Extender Kit was fast and simple. First, I turned off the iMac downstairs. Then I went upstairs, plugged one unit into a wall outlet, then connected it to the cable router using the provided RJ45 cable (the package comes with 2 RJ45 cables, one for each unit). Then I went downstairs and plugged the other unit into a wall outlet, connecting that unit to the iMac with the other RJ45 cable. Then I turned the iMac on, and was able to surf the Internet immediately. The whole process took less than 5 minutes.

Important: the units WILL NOT WORK if you plug them into surge protectors or uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). You have to plug them directly into the home's wall outlets. My home is about 15 years old and we don't have a lot of power surges, so I wasn't too worried about plugging directly into the wall outlet. I did try to plug one unit into a surge protector, and it didn't work that way.

Regarding connection speed, I ran a speed test on the iMac and the results say that I'm connected at optimum speed, as fast as my wireless network will allow.

I will probably buy another Netgear wireless extender and try it out on an old Windows PC, just to see if it works as well as it did on the iMac. But so far, I'm impressed and happy with its performance.

Wrong Choice For Me.......2007-03-08

Although this kit was highly recommended by colleagues who have had excellent results, it did not work for me. The installation was easy but I could not get the signal at the other end, probably due to the wiring in my older home. I returned it and installed a Buffalo wireless ethernet converter that works just fine.

EXCELLENT SELLER SUPER FAST DELIVERY.......2007-02-18

Lighting fast I received this product within 2days. Excellent product. Thank you. A++++ seller

Great, when it works.......2006-12-29

The instructions for this product explain that if you haven't established a network connection between the wall outlet units after plugging both of them in, "try pulling [one of them] out of the outlet and plugging it right back in." This is good advice, because you'll be crawling under your desk to do this 2-5 times every time your computer wakes up from sleep or reboots to reestablish your "always on" broadband connection. I'm sure some people might be lucky enough to have success with this device, but that's of little consolation to me. $100 or thereabouts is too much to spend on a product that "sort of" works. I'm sending it back.

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