| Turn Any Electrical Outlet into a High-Speed Home Network Connection NETGEAR’s Home Theater Internet Connection Kit (XAVB1004) is a convenient solution for extending your home network by using standard electrical outlets. This kit delivers the devices you need to set up an Internet connection in any room without running new wires.The XAVB1004 connects up to four (4) devices to your network: Game consoles including Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 Networked attached storage devices including: NETGEAR ReadyNAS, Notebook PCs, Wired and wireless routers, TiVo, AppleTV,VUDU box, Desktop PCs, Slingbox, BD Live enabled Blu-ray player Features Turn a power outlet into a high speed Internet and home network connection Connects up to 4 devices Delivers fast 200 Mbps speed, fast enough to stream HD video For use with both wired and wireless routers and gateways Simply plug an XAV101 into your router and connect as many as 4 Ethernet-ready devices to the XAV1004 Port-based Quality of Service (QoS), ensures that the highest priority applications are allocated more bandwidth Red, yellow, green status LEDs indicate maximum data rate 128-bit AES data encryption ensures privacy and security, secure your Powerline AV network by just pushing a button Supports Windows Vista HomePlug AV compatible |
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 EASY set-up - theater quality in a box |
| Review Date: September 3, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Maureen Birdsall, lafayette, ca |
We have the same set-up as the previous viewer (TiVO HDXL & NETFLIX), and are also able to stream the full quality movies without delay. I can't stress enough how easy it was to install. In the past, shuffling components usually meant something didn't work after it was all put back in place.
This was seamless & affordable. I'll add it to my checklist of Netgear products that have worked as claimed. |
Look Ma!! No wires!!
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| Review Date: October 22, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Eliezer Kolatch, Bronx, NY USA |
Ok, so you've got the modern home, a couple of game systems, maybe a wii and a ps3 or an xbox. YOu have a cable box that can connect to the internet. Maybe you have an Apple TV or a blu-ray player thats internet radio and netflix ready.
Or perhaps you live in a 3 floor house, your wireless router is on the bottom floor near the cable router but your office is on the third floor.
What do you do?
Before your options were somewhat limited, you could use your wireless network, with the accompanying limited bandwidth and security issues (how many times have you logged on to a random network on your phone??). Alternatively you could run wires throughout your house, poke holes in the walls, or run wires up to the ceiling and around the room. In the process you'll either spend a significant amount of money to get wiring put in professionally, or you'll piss your SO off with wires zigzagging everywhere, honestly, nobody wants to have to run 4 cat-5 cables to their home entertainment system.
The NETGEAR Home Theater Internet Connection Kit (XAVB1004) solves these problems with an incredible simple plug and play solution. The kit consists of two components, one, is a Powerline AV Ethernet Adapter (XAV101) that plugs into the wall by your router, and into your router. The other is a Powerline AV Adapter with 4-port ethernet switch (XAV1004) that you plug in wherever you want to have ethernet ports (on the third floor or by your tv). In tandem these turn the electrical wiring in your house, your power-lines, into an ethernet connection. They allow you to stream, "wirelessly" 100mb/second in each direction, allowing for as much speed as one could desire, without the actual ethernet wires.
In truth this works exactly as expected, while the speeds realized weren't exactly 100mb/s in each direction, i did realize speeds in the mid 70s. I had no trouble streaming Netflix in HD onto a laptop while playing CTF call of duty on my Xbox. Essentially this solved all my wiring problems.
One thing of note: you have to plug these directly into outlets, no power strips, surge protectors, or backup batteries. It has to be plugged into the wall directly for it to work. |
A Wonderful Device by Netgear
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| Review Date: December 5, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Ryan J. Mcleod, North Carolina |
| I bought this product a couple of days ago because I had a router that I was using as a repeater go out on me. I have a xbox 360 and a PS3 that I play online with and I use the 360 for Netflix streaming. I thought I'd give this a try. I litteraly took 5 minutes to hook up. I plugged it in at the router and the other part at my entertainment unit. They connected immediately. I connected my 360 up and gave a Netflix HD movie a try. It loaded quickly and once the movie started playing, it was flawless. Unfortunately I can't get in depth with the technical talk. I do know a good deal about computers and networking but just stuff I've picked up on my own. All i can say is if you need a solid speedy connection this is a wonderful device. |
It really works!
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| Review Date: January 30, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Wolkmeister, Woodstock, MD United States |
| After continuous frustrations with my wireless network doing HD video streaming, I gave this product a shot. And boy, am I thrilled. It does just what it is supposed to do. Setup was a fast and no-brainer. Thrilled with this product. |
This is really a cool idea!
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| Review Date: October 14, 2009 |
| Reviewer: IAMSLICK, |
It took me awhile after receiving this product to actually install it and play with it. I already have a similar device that is made by ActionTec, and it works great. This is even better, though.
Both this product and the ActionTec product I have work by connecting a small box to a power outlet, and then running a network cable from your router or cable modem to the port on the box. Then, anywhere else in your house you plug the receiving end into another power outlet. With the ActionTec product the receiving end is another small box that has a single network port on it. In this Netgear product you plug the small 4-port router into the power outlet, and then you can plug up to 4 devices into the back of it. Pretty amazing!
The setup on this is a huge no-brainer. Just plug both the sending and receiving ends into power outlets and they find each other and you have instant network access anywhere you want it. I tested mine by running DSL Speed tests through it and I easily got full 6Mbps down and 512kbps up DSL speeds. I have a pretty complex setup too. My internet comes into the DSL modem, then out to a Cisco 800 series router, then out to a Linksys WRT54G wireless router, then out to the wall, through the power system, and then it finally arrives at the end device. Worked perfectly, first time, nothing to setup.
I plugged the end device router portion of this diectly into a wall outlet, and then I also tried plugging it into a power strip in my entertainment center. It worked great and got full bandwidth there too.
I have a fairly modern entertainment setup with a 46" Sharp 1080P LCD TV, Dish Network HD DVR, Sharp Blu-ray player, and a Wii. Of all those devices, only the DVR has a network port to take advantage of this Netgear product. The Wii has built in Wireless. So this is overkill for me as a Home Theatre product. If I had a different blend of entertainment products I might be able to take advantage.
I see other uses for this, though. A neighbor of mine bought each of her 3 kids a laptop and set up a study area in their basement. Her wireless router signal wouldn't reach, though, and so she paid a lot of money for a much better router. Coverage was still spotty so she had it hard wired through the walls. This Netgear option would have provided access to each laptop, and would have saved her time and money.
Anyway, I think this is a really cool product. It works very well, and I highly recommend it. People struggle so much with getting wireless working in their houses, I see this is a serious alternative because you need zero networking expertise to get it working.
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