Devolo dLAN 200 AVeasy Expert Reviews

High-speed HomePlug device for creating a network using your existing electricity lines

Easy setup

Variable network performance

A great solution for those who don't want to use wireless or wired networks -- just don't expect miracles from the claimed 200Mbps transmission rates

Wired wireless home networking

Plug and play, introduce Wi-Fi anywhere from your mains wiring, gives you additional ports, press button encryptions

Price, plug gets hot, large size

The convenience of plug and play networking, introducing Wi-Fi for maximum freedom. A tidy solution, if a little expensive

- Wireless is great isn't it? There are no wires for starters and to top it off it means you can sit anywhere you like within the signal, be it the stairs, the sofa or in your bed.

Easy to install, easy to manage, works a treat

Understandably it's a big plug, but means you might fight for space on a four gang socket

Technology always promises to make things easier, and for once, this does just that

A simple way to extend your wireless network

Incredibly simple to set up ; neater than connecting a separate router via Homeplug

More expensive than buying separate Homeplug parts and a router

A simple, elegant way to add wireless internet to a remote part of your home

We check out the latest addition to Devolo's HomePlug range, which boosts the speed of your powerline network to 200Mbps.

This is a high-speed product that will most likely appeal to those wanting to move heavy-duty files such as video around their network.

Devolo's Powerline starter kit supports Homeplug AV, a fast, encrypted standard designed for streaming high-definition TV around your house.

The dLAN 200's performance may seem uninspiring, but it's still good enough to stream HD movies flawlessly. However, for the money you could install a wired network between two rooms.

Driving data over mains power cables is nothing new, but products based on the latest, fastest incarnation of the HomePlug Ethernet-over-powerline standard have only recently started to appear, over a year after the specification was finalised, in ...

Devolo's dLAN 200 AVdesk brings solid, standards-based HD-ready content streaming to the home via mains wiring. But if your hard drive's not packed with HD video you want to send to your TV, you may want to wait for technology to get cheaper. ®

First we had 14Mbps networks, then 85Mbps. Now the latest upgrade from Devolo promises 200Mbps and introduces numerous features to make the resultant network better suited to video streaming. But does it deliver?

200m range, QoS, HomePlug AV compliant

200Mbps throughput unlikely

While the throughput doesn't match the hope, it's still good enough for streaming HD content

200mbps? We doubt you'll see that

200m range, QoS, HomePlug AV compliant

200Mbps throughput unlikely

Networks can be configured to only connect to specific adaptors, allowing you to create fairly complex setups, although this is all defined by the Security ID on the bottom of each adaptor, which can be frustrating for the first setup. 128-bit AES ...

Stream HD video around the house using power-points

Very easy to set up ; Lightning quick transfers ; Supports any peripheral with an Ethernet socket

Expensive ; Only one Ethernet socket on adapter

Streaming video and music around the house is a great concept, however Wifi can be incredibly fickle and, in its current state, doesn't like shifting large files such as high-definition video.