Corinex AV200 Powerline Ethernet Wall Mount - Dual Pack

by Corinex

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3 x 4 x 2 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000NTYU9U
• Item model number: CXPAV200WME2
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 1, 2007

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Corinex AV200 Powerline Ethernet Wall Mount is the world's first wall mount outlet adapter to support the distribution of video, voice, and broadband Internet access over a location's existing electrical wires. With transfer rates of up to 200 Mbps, the Corinex AV200 Powerline Ethernet Wall Mount has ample bandwidth to stream several high quality video signals, such as HDTV, while simultaneously delivering high speed Internet access throughout an entire premise. The AV200 Powerline product family consists of an adapter, router, ADSL2+ Wireless Gateway and a CableLAN adapter and CableLAN router for coaxial networking applications, all offering 200 Mbps communications. This package comes with two wall mount outlet adapters.

The AV200 Powerline technology by Corinex provides numerous networking possibilities with amazingly fast physical layer transfer rates up to 200 Mbps. Finally, real world multimedia network applications can be created without adding any new wiring. Simply plug in a Corinex AV200 Powerline Ethernet Wall Mount and any computing device in the entire location is ready to receive high bandwidth multimedia signals.

Application priority levels are retained, ensuring that applications with real-time requirements, such as VoIP, streaming video and multiplayer head-to-head games do not experience glitches, frame loss, or delays, even if other users in the network are downloading large files, web surfing or listening to MP3 songs.

The Corinex AV200 Powerline Ethernet Wall Mount allows users to create a high-speed local area network, without the need for new cabling. Users can connect the AV200 Powerline Ethernet Wall Mount to virtually any electrical socket in their home or office to create a link to the powerline network. The network can be connected to an Internet gateway, such as an ADSL or cable modem, providing a convenient extension of the Internet to the powerline within a location.

Any Ethernet-enabled device, such as a desktop computer, network printer, laptop computer, or a security camera connect to the AV200 powerline network.

Features

• 10/100BaseT fast Ethernet interface
• Physical data rate in the powerline up to 200 Mbps with distances up to 300 meters.
• Built-in repeating capabilities for increased coverage
• CSMA/CARP (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance and Resolution using Priorities) protocol
• Bridge forwarding table for 64 MAC Addresses
• 802.1Q VLAN & Optimized VLANs
• Powerful DES/3DES encryption
• OFDM technology and powerful error correction system allow robust performance under harsh conditions in the electrical network Integrated 802.1D Ethernet bridge with optimized spanning tree protocol
• 8-level priority queues, with programmable priority-classification engine
• Priority classification according to 802.1P tags, IP coding (IPv4 or IPv6) or TCP source/destination ports
• Optimized support for broadcast and multicast traffic
• MAC filtering - can discard Ethernet frames if they come from a source MAC address that is not present in a list of allowed MAC addresses
• Configuration using an embedded web interface
• Configuration using an embedded web interface

Home User Edition:

• Web interface
• Fixed IP or DHCP
• Default IP 10.10.1.69
• The master and slave can be set manually or automatically
• VLAN tagging without filtering

What's in the Box
Two Corinex AV200 Powerline Ethernet Wall Mounts, two standard CAT5 Ethernet cables, CD with documentation, printed quick start guide

Product Description

"Corinex Communications, the largest Powerline and Coaxial networking company in the world, brings you the Corinex AV200 Powerline Ethernet Wall Mount Adapter, the world’s first product that lets you instantly distribute video, voice, and broadband internet signals over your existing electrical wiring, with transfer rates of up to 200 Mbps. Create a blazingly fast and secure video network in your home over Powerlines, the AV200 Powerline Ethernet Wall Mount Adapter eliminates the need to re-wire your home with expensive category-5/6 Ethernet cabling. The Corinex AV200 Powerline Ethernet Wall Mount Adapter has enough bandwidth to be able to stream multiple channels of HD content throughout the home while supporting VoIP, data and gaming content, all simultaneously. Security is never a concern as 168-bit 3DES encryption is used to safeguard your information. Gamers will love the low latency in the network, to ensure there are no delays in their Real Time games. Creating the network is as simple as plugging one adapter into a standard electrical outlet in one room and plugging a second adapter in another room. Then connect Ethernet-enabled devices to the adapters, sharing video through any electrical outlet in your home is that easy! Setup takes less than 5 minutes. The AV200 Powerline Ethernet Wall Mount Adapter connects: Media Center PC’s, PVRs, DVRs, TV Set Top Boxes, gaming consoles, routers, broadband modems, media extenders, Apple TV, or any other Ethernet-enabled device."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best powerline adaptor?, April 9, 2009

By 

C. Arnold "Multimedia shtick" (Olympia WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corinex AV200 Powerline Ethernet Wall Mount - Dual Pack (Personal Computers)

I have owned these for over 17 months now with no glitches attributable to the units and continuous use. My old XP based computer picked up a humm from the powerline but this never appears in either of my recievers (Sony 5.1/Kenwood stereo), my HP and PICA Vista based desktop computers, my laptop (XP) or any TV. Even if they were plugged into the same power strip.

My main reason for buying is an old brick house with vaulted ceilings. I am a low voltage electrician by trade and do not like the idea of running Cat 6 cable under these conditions (though I did install a floor to floor run on one end). With Comcast as my provider and drewling for fiber I wanted something that can handle my current speed and deliver in the future. Under my current Comcast connection I am basically at the end of their service line and where my computers are in my house I was 4 broadband splitters down line from the main feed and getting dropped all the time on high internet use days. After seeing a review by a monk in Hawaii and seeing the success these guys have in installing their systems in old hotels I decided to give it a try.

My current set up has my cable modem at the nearest unsplit cable feed to the demarcation box. The modem feeds my Buffalo (G-band) wireless router which feeds one AV200. With the other plugged in downstairs at the other end of the house (about 80 feet of powerline plus 8 feet of extension cord on each end). That plugs into an old D-Link router and feeds my two computers (one upstairs, one down). The AV200's are plugged in at diametrically opposed points in the floor plan of a two story house and I presume the powerline runs through the panel but can not prove it. I have not been dropped by my ISP since I installed this system. My laptop runs wireless at a speed of 54 Mbps most of the time but the other computers rate out at 100 Mbps (the routers limitations), I download a movie from Starz Play in 12 minutes on average on the main computers.

As of late my 2.4 Ghz wireless is having speed fits (too much wireless traffic I fear; twice as many modems now in my area and who knows how many 2.4 Ghz devices). I am looking to add a unit and drop the wireless completely. I have yet to find a dual N band wireless for a comparable price that can do the job plus I would have to upgrade my laptop to gain speed (but 2.4 Ghz wireless may still be a problem).

Things to Know;

You can not run these through a surge protector, back-up power supply or power filter! Regular extension cords do work. I have experienced a couple of power outages with these and they boot up automatically in a matter of moments after the power resumes. They have survived any power surges (had a big one that took out a light bulb).

For most people I think the out of the box settings will work fine with little need to use the security settings. But security is easily setup if you so desire (apartment buildings or duplexes that do not have separate power meters for each unit; probably why one person could not get it to transfer signal from one apartment to another was the power meters). Reconfiguring your IP address takes a little doing but if you have set up a secure wireless system this would be a similar experience.

Though they claim 200 Mbps speed no technical review of any BOPL modem has tested to that speed that I know of (back when I was researching them) ... yet they certainly can handle multimedia and high speed gaming needs combining both at the same time may tax the system. It is useable to connect extender devises to the internet such as Xbox. I have used a computer based internet phone (Magic Jack) through the units with no problem.

This device meets the Homeplug AV standard and should be cross compatable with other such compatible devices but its durability so far is selling me on this brand. All of the other similar devices the monk had tested quit working in a matter of days of high continuous use.

Update 7/24/09 - Rerate this to a four star... One unit finally died so I have looked around and purchased a set of Actiontec's newest Megaplug AV, It is also Homeplug AV but will not talk with the Corinex. This makes me question just what the homeplug standard is realy worth. The Actiontec is significantly cooler to the touch. Other comments in it's review.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a happy ending, October 31, 2010

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itiswhatitis (Woodbridge, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corinex AV200 Powerline Ethernet Wall Mount - Dual Pack (Personal Computers)

I had used this to extend my home network for over two years. After moving to a new house, it just stopped working. I couldn't get either one of the pair to connect to any device (switch, PC, hub, etc), nor to each other. It wouldn't even display the link light.

While it worked, it worked great for browsing and email, latency was a bit high for console gaming.

I gave it 1 star, not because it failed after two years (although it should have lasted longer, considering it's cost), but because Corinex Support is non-existant. I have sent numerous emails, filled out support requests on their site, and left voicemails. I never heard from them.

Next time I'll stick with a larger manufacturer (Netgear, Linksys, etc).

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ethernet, September 12, 2008

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Lucie Boelter "Grandma" (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corinex AV200 Powerline Ethernet Wall Mount - Dual Pack (Personal Computers)

This product saved my sanity and my tripping and falling over a cord running across my living room! We tried wireless on my grandson's Xbox but couldn't get anything to work. The Powerline is so fast and easy that even a 64 year old grandmother can figure it out!