Zyxel G.hn 2400 Wave 2 Powerline Kit, Pass-Thru, Gigabit, Plug&Play, Stream 8k Content [PLA6456]

I used to be a big fan of ethernet over power technology, but this product disappointed me greatly. It claims a max of 2400 Mbps, but in reality it delivers far below the stated specs. The speeds I got were below 10% of the theoretical max. I wasn’t expecting 2400 Mbps, but I was surprised it was as bad as it was, even between a router on one side of my home office and a computer on the other. The outlets are less than 20 feet apart. Adding more nodes is plug and play, but when I added a fourth node I started getting red light indicators that would intermittently switch between nodes. I ended up returning these and going with Wifi mesh routers. The tech on mesh routers has improved greatly and are a much better solution now.

This product stopped working after 2 months. One of the units no longer powers on. After a week going back and forth with their support, I was sent an RMA form that stated I had to send the units to California at my own expense. There was no other option. Shipping from Toronto to California is not cheap and doesn’t make sense since I can by new, better units for that price. Do not buy from Zyxel.

Between the two locations they are bridging, generally get 80mbit/s, 30 on bad days and 120 on good days. When plugged in right next to each other they got around 500mbit/s. Performance and link stability was better when changing mode from "PLC 100MHz MIMO boost" to "PLC 100MHz boost". Adds a bit of latency, generally 15-20ms but I have seen some spikes up to 50 or 100+. Remember that latency, like bandwidth, will be heavily affected by local usage conditions, I have not yet started to dig into if anything specific causes issues or into a way of monitoring and charting the negotiated bandwidth, will edit if I get around to it. VLAN tagged traffic seems to be passed with the tags intact but I haven't done a lot of testing of any edge cases around VLANs. It doesn't seem to be possible to set a specific VLAN for the management UI. No support for syslog or rsyslog, the only option for logging is to run an FTP server and configure it to upload logs there (yuck.). I haven't got around to doing this yet but will edit when I do. There's some kind of shell running on port 40000 but I haven't been able to find a way in yet. IPv6 is supported and works fine. IGMP and MLD snooping are supported, as is multicast filtering, not run into any issues but also not thoroughly tested. Decent if plain web UI, supporting all the usual configuration. Unfortunately not available over HTTPS. One thing to note, the encryption button broke when first pressed on one of the two adapters. Not a big deal as you can set it up in the Web UI. Overall, works fairly well for something like a low traffic auxiliary wireless AP or a printer, maybe basic web browsing and video streaming, but nothing highly interactive or with very high bandwidth demands. 4 stars assuming you have reasonable expectations about the performance of powerline (no, it won't get anywhere close to 2.4gbit, ever), would be 5 stars if I could set a VLAN and use rsyslog, or there was an API exposed for monitoring but looks like I'm going to have to put a scraper together for the bandwidth.

Excellent speeds for what it is. I did 3 tests. On the same floor relatively close to the primary adapter, I got almost 500mpbs. In the basement, I got roughly 125mpbs in multiple tests. On the furthest outlet from the hub, also in the basement, I got 75mpbs. In all tests, I always had the same quality for upload and the pings were excellent with no drops (12-14). This thing can handle 4k streaming and possibly 8k within the proper setup with a relatively close distance on the same floor. If you can't run ethernet or use MoCA coaxial adapters, this is your best solution for a hard-wired connection. MoCA and Powerline are great solutions for freeing up your wireless traffic when you have many devices connecting to your router. Best: Ethernet Better: MoCA Good: G.hn Powerline

Worked good for a few months. Then just stopped working