I was quite surprised, then, by my first sighting of Broadcom-based powerline designs! Both adapters use a Broadcom BCM60321 Powerline Networking SoC. So I expected to see the INT6400 / INT1400 chipset I found in most of the adapters in the HomePlug AV Adapter Roundup. Peeking inside powerline adapters has gotten kind of boring, since everything I’ve reviewed to date has used the same Qualcomm Atheros chipsets. And while you can’t find this spec on the product webpages, the label on each adapter shows a 100 – 240 VAC rating. Like other 200 Mbps powerline adapters, the Ethernet ports on both products are 10/100, not Gigabit. And the product boxes even display the HomePlug AV Certification logo. The HomePlug Certified Products database shows the individual adapters and their kits as Homeplug AV Certified. The adapters come only in these kits-you can’t buy single adapters. The PLEK400 contains two PLE400s, while the PLSK400 contains one PLE400 and one four-port PLS400. Cisco told me they elected to stay with 200 Mbps powerline while most other vendors have also fielded 500 Mbps Homeplug AV compatible adapters because Homeplug AV is an approved standard while 500 Mbps powerline is not.Īt any rate, Cisco now has the PLE400 Powerline AV 1-Port Network Adapter and PLS400 Powerline AV 4-Port Network Adapter, which come in two kits. Can provide higher throughput than other HomePlug AV devicesĬisco recently got back into powerline networking with the release of two 200 Mbps HomePlug AV adapters.– Cisco Linksys PLS400 Powerline AV 4-Port Network Adapter ( PLSK400 – kit of 2)Ģ00 Mbps HomePlug AV powerline adapters based on Broadcom chipsets – Cisco Linksys PLE400 Powerline AV 1-Port Network Adapter ( PLEK400 – kit of 2)
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