Sitecom 500 Mbps homeplug Ethernet review

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/05/2012 01:53 PM | source: | 0 comment(s)

The Sitecom Powerline Ethernet adapters allow you to use your mains electricity circuit to transfer data, this way you can extend your network to wherever you have a free plug socket. The product we test today comes from Sitecom, their 500 Mbps plus Homeplug.

The kit provides a connection of up to 500Mbits/sec. Divide that by 8 bits and you'd in theory would be able to see transfer speeds of 62.5 Megabyte per second. In practice, however we tested the maximum net data rate is much MUCH lower, 60~100 Mbits/sec - still that is faster than Wi-Fi and sufficient enough or streaming high-definition video from say your PC with network shares to, for instance, your HTPC.

Read the review here.

Related Stories

Sitecom Media Player 2TB MD-272 review - 11/09/2011 01:45 PM
The new Sitecom Media Player comes standard with a new improved GUI, but also hardware wise harbor the latest Realtek 1185 chipset, and that changes a thing or two as pretty much any of the performanc...

Sitecom 500 Mbps homeplugs - 09/29/2011 08:07 PM
Sitecom just launched 500 Mbps homeplugs, allowing you to move serious network traffic over your powerline. Using this Homeplug 500 Mbps you can very easily add a desktop PC or notebook, or even a Co...

Sitecom 300N X4 WLR-4000 Wireless router review - 07/07/2011 10:32 AM
Sitecom introduces a series of standard routers but with a twist. They tagged their mainstream range from X1, X2, X3 and a more enthusiast range from X4, X5 and X6. They are all Gigabit models, but ob...

SiteCom adds Cloud Computing Security as option to consumer routers - 03/19/2011 06:52 AM
Dutch based network specialist SiteCom, selling predominantly in Europe, is launching a new range of routers. The routers will be tagged under the X-series 2.0 and get 6 models labeled X1 to X6 (being...

Sitecom MD-500 Digital Media Set review - 10/20/2010 11:57 AM
Sitecom MD-500 Digital Media Set gets tested One of the kits Sitecom recently introduced consists out of a Gigabit router for your intra and local area network connectivity, a storage unit which Sitec...