{"id":1172,"date":"2011-09-02T10:29:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T09:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2011-09-02T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T16:25:00","slug":"netgear-xav5501-av500-powerline-adapters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/technology\/netgear-xav5501-av500-powerline-adapters","title":{"rendered":"Netgear XAV5501 AV+500 Powerline Adapters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy moly!<\/p>\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using a pair of Netgear XE104s to extend our network to the living room. They connect using mains electrical power, and have worked fine for a couple of years.<\/p>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/hangout\/wp-content\/uploads\/netgear-xav5501-cpl-500.jpg\" alt=\"Netgear XAV5501 AV+500\" title=\"Netgear XAV5501 AV+500\" width=\"484\" height=\"484\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/hangout\/wp-content\/uploads\/netgear-xav5501-cpl-500.jpg 484w, https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/hangout\/wp-content\/uploads\/netgear-xav5501-cpl-500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/hangout\/wp-content\/uploads\/netgear-xav5501-cpl-500-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/hangout\/wp-content\/uploads\/netgear-xav5501-cpl-500-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>This morning I replaced them with Netgear XAV5501 AV+500 adapters, which claim to work at gigabit speeds. So I ran a small test, sending a 30mb file to the mac mini in the living room using the XE104s: 28 seconds. Same test with XAV5501s installed: 4 seconds!<\/p>\n\n<p>Brilliant!<\/p>\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/bridges\/netgear-powerline-av-500\/4505-3304_7-34799068.html?tag=content;get-selector\" title=\"CNET Review\">link to a proper review<\/a>, and here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/NETGEAR-Powerline-Adapter-XAV5501-wall-pluggable\/dp\/B004BF5R8K\" title=\"Netgear XAV5501 on Amazon UK\">Amazon UK link<\/a> if you want to buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy moly! I&#8217;ve been using a pair of Netgear XE104s to extend our network to the living room. They connect using mains electrical power, and have worked fine for a couple of years. This morning I replaced them with Netgear XAV5501 AV+500 adapters, which claim to work at gigabit speeds. So I ran a small &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/technology\/netgear-xav5501-av500-powerline-adapters\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Netgear XAV5501 AV+500 Powerline Adapters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[212,211,310],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-homeplug","tag-networking","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}