NETGEAR Home Theater Internet Connection Kit (Black)
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| NETGEAR Home Theater Internet Connection Kit (Black) |
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| Manufacturer: Netgear Inc |
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| List Price: $189.99 |
| Sale Price: $149.99 |
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Product Description |
| 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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Product Details |
- Perfect for connecting HDTVs, Blu-ray players, DVRs, and game consoles to your home network and the Internet
- Extends a high speed Internet connection to any power outlet1
- Provides wired reliability with no new wires
- Connects up to 4 devices
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Customer Reviews |
 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. |
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. |
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. |
Solid speeds works great for streaming video
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| Review Date: December 24, 2009 |
| Reviewer: John A. Sauter, USA |
I chose this unit to hook up my new LG BD-390 Blu-ray player to the Internet. I considered wireless n, but the location of my player was so far from my wireless router that I was concerned I wouldn't get the performance that I wanted for streaming video over the internet. I followed the instructions for setting up the unit. You can encrypt the signal, but since I live in a single family home there was no reason to. Set-up was a breeze and I had internet connectivity to my Sony Bravia KDL-46XBR8 and LG BD-390 Blu-ray player just by connecting the ethernet cables and turning them on.
I have mainly used the connection for streaming Netflix movies over the internet. I am very pleased with the results. The clarity of the images is even better than on my computer. I can only attribute this to the better graphics performance of the LG player and Sony HDTV compared to my computer, since the streaming speed at the computer has to be greater than at the LG player connected to Netgear, but it does say that the ethernet speed of the Netgear unit is sufficient to not degrade the quality of the image. There was only one time when the LG unit's Netflix streaming indicated less than full quality (both the Netflix application on the computer and on the LG player do a line speed quality check before they begin streaming). But after playing the movie for a few minutes, the LG automatically detected a change in quality in the streaming speed and increased the performance back to maximal image quality. I'm not sure what drove the performance down. There must have been some electrical interference from some device connected to my power line. If I see it happen again, I'll try and isolate the source of the problem and will update this review.
If you are concerned about using wireless to connect your home theater components, I would highly recommend this alternative. The assurance of being able to drive high speed ethernet to any part of the house is well worth the price of the unit.
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