devolo Magic 2-2400 Lan Triple Starter Kit: (Up To 2400 Mbps For Your Powerline Home Network, 3x GB Lan Ports, Ideal For Online Gaming, 4k/8k Uhd Streaming, Stable Home Working)

My house isn’t very big—just a terrace house. For my setup, a fully wired connection is ideal so I can directly connect my PC, NAS, and CCTV camera. This kit is perfect for me. I love it—it works like a dream. I have it already for a month I previously had an older TP-Link model, and after buying this one, the difference is like day and night. The setup is very easy, there is nothing even to talk about - more or less plug and play. It’s also nice to know that this high-quality product is made in Europe.

Good speeds - was synching at greater than 1200Mbps so I thought this was the perfect solution in my house (new build). However, when these are plugged in, it completely kills the Vodafone Wifi 7. I cant fathom how or why, unfortunately neither can Vodafone. Tried multiple sockets but these just don't work with Vodafone Superhub Wifi.

Bought to replace my failing dLan set up - had given 5+ years of service with one plug failure but was often a pain to reset/reboot when needed (too often). Debated but decided to stick with Devolo, glad I did. These were so easy to set up and add to - just plug in, add network details, and wait a few mins. All good so far, speeds up a bit but not massively, main limit is the part fibre 60 odd feed. Now have 3 wifi plus one non and all work 100% - need as internal walls have blocks with high metal content.... Expensive, almost twice that of the equivalent(ish) competition but I'm happy with both ease of set up and functioning now installed.

I have used Powerline adapters for many years, always TP link because that is all I knew and to be fair they always worked. My house wiring is a mix of old and new and the main reason I have the Power line adapters is for my business in a seperate garage. I have never had a problem with consistency of signal with TP links and only changed from 500's to 1300's to increase band width. 5 Years on from my last upgrade to the 1300's I thought I'd look into the subject again and discovered the Devolo Magic2 2400 units and claims of fastest etc etc and the app looked practical so thought, right I'll give it a go. They install and pair very much the same as the TP Links and I did gain around 5 to 10Mbps over the 1300 TP Links in the workshop although the PING went up from around 9ms to around 12ms but ultimately no a big deal. HOWEVER, I use my connection for a online eSports where PING and consistency is far more important than band width. Whilst internet speed looked great, in an online race I started getting packet loss warnings and other network connection issues, something I've never had before! Two weeks of settings changes within the Devolo App, PC software, relocating plugs, checking Firmware, restarting and rebooting Routers and Magic 2's with no significant reliability gain followed. In the end I thought I cannot risk this again, so changed back to my old TP Link 1300's and straight away, 9ms PING and ZERO Packet loss or connection issue warnings. I contacted Devolo who passed the buck to Amazon who pass the buck to an automated system that goes no further than requesting a return but never actually allowing me to activate a return. I've chnaged every possible setting within my PC, I've checked Firmwares, Unit Pairing and Low and high power modes and the only minor improvement was returning it to low power mode where the tempuratures dropped from scarey 90 deg CPU top a still crazy 65deg CPU. The simple fact that swapping back to the TP Links after weeks of wasted time problem solving a moving goal post and the problem dispeared tells me all I need to know that the Devolo product is not as developed as it should be, latest Firmware from Devolo dated 2023 says something to! Adequate but over priced if all you do is watch TV and surf the net but do not touch if you use them for gaming. BUY TP LINKS I know they work.

I had been using TP Link devices, to get cable bandwidth over my mains sockets at the other end of my house to where the router is located. However, I started to get low signal strength and disconnecting, which rendered them useless. Having done some research, I decided to take the plunge, and try these powerline devices. Initial setup failed completely, so I decided to follow the manual process for pairing the devices, which worked perfectly. I did notice you must have them not all on the same circuit, especially if there are lots of other mains devices connected, as it will cause a weak signal warning over the cables. I placed the 2 Wi-Fi/LAN devices in the same sockets where my TP-Link devices were, and they both connected to the device at the router end perfectly. To configure the Wi-Fi on them, I strongly recommend you download the app 'Devolo Cockpit' onto your mobile first. It will automatically detect the Wi-Fi and allow you to configure and make changes to SSID and password, so you will not need the key from the back of the devices. It is a brilliant app, and easy to use, but sometimes you need to keep re-connecting until it recognises the devices, so be patient. I get nearly 100MB on Wi-Fi, and full bandwidth of 200MB over the cables. Expensive, but well worth the money, as you are paying for superior performance and signal quality.

My Virgin Media hub 3 router is in the upstairs study in the corner of my house. My Hi Fi system is diagonally opposite in the downstairs corner of the house. As I didn't want to 'hardwire' from router to music streamer using ethernet cable I decided to try an over the mains system. I am pleased to say this works very well, and to my ears the sound of the music coming through on 'Tidal' is very good. There is no signal break up so far. Wifi on phones and tablet was weak or non existent when away from the router. (The hub 3 is not that good anyhow). I looked into wifi mesh systems and wifi extenders but decided on the Devolo system because; a) this can be set up as a mesh system; same SSID, password as the hub 3 so don't need to change when moving around the house, b) over mains data transmission which works well for my Hi Fi, c) don't loose the use of an electrical socket, although Devolo do state that you shouldn't plug the unit into a mains extension cable. (The mains extension cable can however run out through the Devolo socket). Also on this point, if you put the Devolo plug into a double wall socket shared with some other appliance, this has the same effect as using an extension lead. They say it can effect the wifi signal. d) Fairly easy to set up. Main downside: expensive. Wifi speeds around the house vary from day to day, hour to hour. I am on the VM 300 mbps supply, and sometimes I get that around the house but more often than not I get between 120 to 250 mbps. I think the fluctuation is more to do with Virgin Media than the Devolo sockets. Also the two wifi plugs are hidden. One behind the television in one room and the other in a corner behind my hi fi gear in another room. One other thing, I live in an oldish house and mains electrical system for the power sockets is a single circuit upstairs and downstairs. I do not know how this would effect powerline data transmission on most houses with at least 2 separate circuits.

I've been using inexpensive TP-Link 500Mbps extenders with additional nodes in my study and home cinema in quite a long house (27m). They worked fine, but over six years the TP-Link powerline transmitter connected to the router died twice, so I decided to upgrade. The devolo Magic 2-2400 Mbps whole house kit replacements are now up and running and provide very good WiFi coverage throughout the whole house, down to 50% in just two spots - one in a bathroom, and are so far stable. They are much larger than the TP-Link units, so large that they cover the mains socket switch they are attached to, and it's a bizarre design decision for a product intended for a domestic environment to have the network ports at the top of the units - this is always going to look ugly, but as the cinema unit is in a cupboard with the projection kit and the other is near the floor in a small study, it doesn't affect me. Installation, however, was a nightmare. Now I am not a network specialist, but I did work in IT consultancy for over 30 years, so am reasonably adept at installing and troubleshooting new software and hardware, and yes, I can read a manual. Reading other reviews, the essential problem seems to be that if you follow the very pared-down installation instructions step by step and it all works first time, you are a happy camper and you'll be up and running in 10 minutes. If it doesn't all work first time you may be entering a world of pain. The full online instruction manual has more pages, but tells you very little more. There is an amusing FAQ on the devolo web site where the question is posed: "How are Magic devices installed?" The "answer" provided is, "The devices connect automatically. You do not have to do anything." Who said the Germans had no sense of humour? On day one I spent approximately 3 hours attempting to install the devices, first pairing them (so that in theory two new devices each with its own security key should appear in your list of wireless connections) and then following the extra steps to create a mesh wireless network (utilising your existing router id and wireless key.) The manual is dumbed down almost to the point of uselessness. One of the first questions is raised when the manual recommends that you "make a note of the Wi-Fi key on the back of the devolo Magic adapter". At this point you pause because in the "whole home" kit you have two devolo Magic adapters, so which one do I use? The installation manual is specifically for the whole home kit, and has a picture of the three devices on the front... but there is no mention anywhere of the two WiFi keys question. In fact the manual has a space on the back page where you can write down "the" WiFi key. This point was also raised in a magazine review, where they suggested that maybe it's the first one you connect (it turns out that isn't necessarily so, for me it was the second.) It's not a large point, but it became significant later. Not being a complete idiot I wrote down the two WiFi keys, and Post-it noted each unit approprately, and also the security key on the transmitter unit (this key not mentioned in the manual at all) and of my existing hub/router itself. I also noted the steps I took on each attempt. By the way, the manual also said in English "the WiFi key on the back of the devolo Magic adapter". The other six languages said (in translation) "the WiFi key on the back of the devolo Magic WiFi adapter". So it became advisable to check some of the other language instructions at each step in case any other important words had been omitted in English. I followed all steps to pair the units. Unfortunately the manual doesn't call it "pairing" at this point and this becomes important when you recognise there are two processes to perform, pairing the units to create interlinked WiFi nodes, and THEN creating a meshed WiFi network with one unified WiFi key cloned from your hub. For the first process the manual refers to "connecting", "encryption", and then "set up WiFi connection on your smartphone etc." In the second process it does say that you can "Optionally use Mesh technology to connect all devolo Magic adapters and your router to a contiguous network..." Much later in the manual, after describing the indicator lights/buttons in six languages it mentions "Help: If automatic pairing during initial installation was unsuccessful, you can carry our manual pairing of the Magic adapters." Note that this is the first mention of the word "pairing" or "pair" and it's completely unclear whether this is a manual alternative to the first or second process! I managed to get one Magic WiFi adapter connected (white Powerline Connector light) and one not (red PLC). I had one devolo-460 listed in available WiFi connections, but neither of the WiFi keys worked (and nor did the main unit's security key, nor the router's WiFi key: I even tried them using the SSID on the back of each unit - Nada! I think I know what happened here. The unit that hadn't fully connected was the one supplying the WiFi key, not the WiFi key of the one that had connected, so I couldn't log on to the devolo-460 connection. Once again, "devolo-460" wasn't mentioned in the manual. I repeated this twice more and finally got all white lights. So, after 2 hours of fafffing about that was the "You do not have to do anything" part of the FAQ completely sorted! Now the Meshing. That just made things worse and I ended up with one WiFi unit's PLC light flashing white, the other flashing red. I couldn't log in to anything except my router, I still had the unloginable devolo-460 showing in my list of connections, and despite several attempts to reset to factory defaults I was unconvinced the units had actually reset. Three hours gone. Next morning I tried once more with no luck. I phoned the devolo help desk and was pleased to be number 2 in the queue, then quickly number 1, where I sat for 20 minutes. I though maybe this indicates they only have one help desk operator, and/or each problem takes about 20 minutes. Finally spoke a help-desk, a rather dour German who was abruptly dismissive of my attempts to enter the LAN unit's security key or the router WiFi key, before I explained in exasperation that if nothing else works you are led to attempt the implausible. After 35 minutes of starting from scratch we finally got through both processes to create a mesh WiFi system. Thirty-five minutes! That tells you that this was NOT straightforward. Several steps we had to repeat as they didn't "take" first time, and one step (creating the mesh) we had to repeat three times, moving the WiFi adapter closer and closer to the router until it managed to sync with the router's WPS process. When all that was done I located the units where they should be and they all reconnected fine, and (only 4 days later) everything seems stable. Main problems are an under-written installation guide that gives you no clue what to do if any step fails, sloppy structure and language translation where in an attempt to simplify things they manage to obscure meaning (e.g. "connection" or "basic installation" used instead of "pairing"; and "pairing" only used when describing how to use "manual pairing" when "automatic pairing" has failed - when by now you are not sure which of two processes this is. The fact it took 35 minutes to talk through and carry out the installation process for two WiFi adapters (it really was automatic with the TP-Link units) shows that when you have problems, you REALLY have problems, that can take a help-desk techie some time to bash through. So, including 55 minutes on the phone (including the 20 in the queue) that was a total of FOUR HOURS.

Tricky to review these. Powerline adapters have always been so dependent on your homes wiring and it doesn't help that their advertised theoretical speeds will never happen in the real world. That being said - these are the single best powerline adapters you can buy. I was seeing 450mbps between the adapters which is great for this technology, unfortunately for my use this was to run my Eero backhaul wired, and when connecting the Eero the wi-fi speeds from that node were throttled too much (limiting to around 100mbps, slower than the poor signal wireless link between Eero's I was using) so I've returned and sucked up that I'll be running some Cat 6 around the house. If you're in a rental space or just can't/don't want to run wires, this is the best alternative, but it is limited. If I was running this into a desktop or console, I'd be tempted to keep it but for my purposes it didn't work.