Netgear XAVB5201 HomePlug Ethernet adapter review: Squeezing better performance from an old standard

Netgear’s current power-line offering is based on the HomePlug AV spec with enhancements that bring theoretical speeds up to 500 Mbps (hence the product name). When I asked why the company hadn’t introduced an AV2 product, the answer was that Netgear considered these adapters competitive with other vendors’ first-generation AV2 gear. Our tests showed this claim to