Powerline Adapter: Choosing Between Two

[touchtoplay]

Hello everyone, so I'm looking into buying a powerline adapter and have narrowed down my decision to two possibilities: the TP-LINK TL-PA4010 AV500 or the TRENDnet TPL-406E2K AV500.

The thing I'm really concerned about is any disconnection problems - if the connection happens to drop for some reason, I would hope that it would be able to reconnect itself rather than having to manually plug it back in.

I know the TPL-406E2K has a high editor's review on CNET, but the TL-PA4010 has more reviews on Amazon with a higher percentage of favorable reviews. It's hard to find any other sources of reviews on the latter though.

Any guidance about either would be greatly appreciated.

 

[bill001g]

With these devices you could only trust recommendation from someone who used both and even then it does not mean a lot. Your house is unique and there is no way to predict which will work better....or at all in some cases.

From the little digging I did both devices appear to use qualcomm chips but it is unclear if they use exactly the same chips. One says ar7400 and the other ar7420.

But since the chips are this similar and the specs appear identical I would suspect you will get very similar results.

These type devices tend to work well or completely fail. Although you may not have much choice you need to avoid any circuits that have device with small motors on them. Also they must be plugged directly into a wall no power strips or extension cords since those tend to degrade or block the signal.