Devolo Magic 1-1200 Wi-Fi 5 Add-On Powerline Adapter, Mesh Wi-Fi, (Up To 1200 Mbps Via Powerline, Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi Anywhere, Access Point, 2x Fast Ethernet Ports, Stable Home Working)

Great item. Using for both Powerline and Wifi in a rental. Great coverage with the Wifi Mesh 2. Allows for a second SSID for guest IOT stuff. It also supports WPA3 as well as WPA2 etc and 2.5/5ghz Wifi. There is also support for 802.11r 'Fast Roaming' which works fine. It also has parental controls (not used) and wifi schedules (not used), along with some basic neighbor detection logging. To configure, I did not use the app as its pretty awful on Android and Windows. You can use http/https to access the device when it has an address. You can use HTTPS but it does not force redirect. Some settings are synced between devices others are not. I'd really like to find the API as think that would help. Support appears to come from Germany and is not so good. I had an issue where the first adaptor had updated to the latest firmware and the other two would not (was DNS related) The product seems to be called Mesh Wifi 2 sometimes and the product support page as little or no firmware downloads Easy to deploy, stable and has pretty decent speeds. I'd like to see a CLI, logging (even syslog) and additional SSID support, even if it were multiple guests.

I've used TP-LINK power line adapters for over 7 years in my office / home. The building is quite demanding as its relatively large and there are external workshops fed by mains from the house. Although the TP-LINK units have performed OK, they have become increasingly unreliable but also inconsistent. The definitive test is streaming YouTube on TVs..our old 65" Samsung would not start, or stutter or on iPlayer hang using TP-LINK power line adapters...it didn't seem to matter whether it was thr 500/600/1200/2000 all had issues. The worst problem is that one or more would glitch and flood the network with spurious packets dragging the LAN. Wifi and router down. The programming of the units was iffy and the management console flaky. The Devolo units were much more expensive, but being now annoyed and with very poor and inconsistent throughput to the garages which are about 50 metres away I bit the bullet and bought two wi-fi and 4 lan units. Apart from a strange inability to get the LAN units to see the WiFi units initially the set up was OK. Stability is great, performance in real world I woulod say is about 25%-50% better than the TPLINKs and the managment console both ipad and pc based much better. In this case you do get what you pay for!

I have had previous generations of Devolo tech so this was a next step into full mesh home setup. They’ve made the setup of the products and network really simple and effective through the Devolo Home Network app and in 10 minutes, I had both a three and a two unit set paired up to be a home network of five of these really easily. (Devolo setup used to be a nightmare of trial and error, so they’ve really sorted this out). What’s important to know is how Devolo achieves its ‘mesh network’ and that’s through powerline connection and wifi hotspot units that broadcast the powerline connection and mesh it together that way. The unit that connects to the router with ethernet sends the powerline connection to all other mesh units and these each create their own meshed wifi zones. Lots of other companies use wifi rebroadcast to create a mesh network. There are pros and cons to both approaches but I expect the Devolo mesh network to be pretty stable (a speed test on each unit is reporting maximum up and down mbps). From experience with older Devolo units, the odd power demand from an appliance (a boiler starting, for example) can cause brief outage; but only for a second or two). Watching which unit my phone is connecting to as I walk around the house (using the Devolo app) shows it switching efficiently to the nearest unit without dropout of connectivity. Where the system falls short for me is that you have to have a house and grounds where everything is on the same electrical circuit. I needed one of the units to give a wifi mesh zons in our garage (gym space) but because the garage is on its own electrical circuit, the powerline doesn’t work). I had (mistakenly) thought that Devolo Mesh used powerline and/or wifi rebroadcast to give a double layer of network connectivity and so assumed (though to assume makes an ass out of ‘u’ and ‘me!) it would be possible to disable powerline connection to just have that garage unit take a wifi rebroadcast. No such luck - this isn’t possible and so is something to be aware of if having multiple electric circuits in your home/grounds applies to you. My own solution in the end was to add a TP-Link Mesh Extender in the garage gym that is now successfully rebroadcasting wifi from the nearest Devolo unit in the house. Not perfect but working well. My only real negative in the whole Devolo setup was the brief call to Devolo’s customer support number. I explained my want with the garage gym and asked if it were possible to disable the powerline connection on the garage unit to just achieve wifi rebroadcast connection. A German company has a German call centre which is expected and fine but the person didn’t seem to understand the nuance of my query and sort of mansplained me saying ‘powerline is how mesh networks work’. In truth, that’s how Devolo’s mesh networks work and mine works very well thus far but it’s not how all mesh networks work so I felt a bit patronised and ‘told’ rather than helped. On balance though, so far this is a solid and efficient setup that was easy to get going with. (Just note the point about outbuildings and potential of separate circuits).

I bought this kit to replace an old TP-Link product - I thing about 8 years old. The set-up process is a nightmare. The app told me to connect my phone (with the app on it) to an incorrect SSID. It made no sense to me but I did as instructed. After multiple attempts I reconnected to the SSID which made sense - the one on the router to which the Devolo adapter was connected. The app then found all the devices. However, in the network diagram it mis-identified the router. My main router is connected to a range extender and it was this that the Devolo kit identified as the wi-fi source and route to the internet. This really made set-up difficult. I persevered and set my parameters. I then moved one of the extenders into my garage where the old TP-Link worked, but worked slowly. The new Devolo didn't work at all. I brought it back, room by room, to a few metres away from the base adaptor. It would only connect in immediately adjacent rooms. My wiring is old, but it supports TP-Link kit from a couple of generations ago. After hours of effort the kit is on its way back to Amazon.

Werkt wel, but the speed is MUCH less than WiFi

Fonctionne parfaitement. Branchement enfantin dans le tableau électrique triphasé. Fini la galère de savoir sur quelle phase se trouve le courant porteur. Je mesure 50M en vitesse de download via wifi. Notez bien que les anciennes prises devolo qui ne sont pas marquées Magic sont incompatibles. Il faut avoir uniquement des prises Magic.

Nach dem Einbau wurde die Durchsatzrate von meinen anderen Devolo-Geräten verbessert.

Pontage des phases dans le tableau électrique pour partage du CPL Possibilité de connecter un appareil directement à la source

Cok kullanisli bir urun. Bandwit neredeyse 1 gig