Devolo Magic 1-1200 Wi-Fi 5 Add-On Powerline Adapter, Mesh Wi-Fi, (Up To 1200 Mbps Via Powerline, Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi Anywhere, Access Point, 2x Fast Ethernet Ports, Stable Home Working)

Great item. Using for both Powerline and Wifi in a rental. Great coverage with the Wifi Mesh 2. Allows for a second SSID for guest IOT stuff. It also supports WPA3 as well as WPA2 etc and 2.5/5ghz Wifi. There is also support for 802.11r 'Fast Roaming' which works fine. It also has parental controls (not used) and wifi schedules (not used), along with some basic neighbor detection logging. To configure, I did not use the app as its pretty awful on Android and Windows. You can use http/https to access the device when it has an address. You can use HTTPS but it does not force redirect. Some settings are synced between devices others are not. I'd really like to find the API as think that would help. Support appears to come from Germany and is not so good. I had an issue where the first adaptor had updated to the latest firmware and the other two would not (was DNS related) The product seems to be called Mesh Wifi 2 sometimes and the product support page as little or no firmware downloads Easy to deploy, stable and has pretty decent speeds. I'd like to see a CLI, logging (even syslog) and additional SSID support, even if it were multiple guests.

I've used TP-LINK power line adapters for over 7 years in my office / home. The building is quite demanding as its relatively large and there are external workshops fed by mains from the house. Although the TP-LINK units have performed OK, they have become increasingly unreliable but also inconsistent. The definitive test is streaming YouTube on TVs..our old 65" Samsung would not start, or stutter or on iPlayer hang using TP-LINK power line adapters...it didn't seem to matter whether it was thr 500/600/1200/2000 all had issues. The worst problem is that one or more would glitch and flood the network with spurious packets dragging the LAN. Wifi and router down. The programming of the units was iffy and the management console flaky. The Devolo units were much more expensive, but being now annoyed and with very poor and inconsistent throughput to the garages which are about 50 metres away I bit the bullet and bought two wi-fi and 4 lan units. Apart from a strange inability to get the LAN units to see the WiFi units initially the set up was OK. Stability is great, performance in real world I woulod say is about 25%-50% better than the TPLINKs and the managment console both ipad and pc based much better. In this case you do get what you pay for!

I have had previous generations of Devolo tech so this was a next step into full mesh home setup. They’ve made the setup of the products and network really simple and effective through the Devolo Home Network app and in 10 minutes, I had both a three and a two unit set paired up to be a home network of five of these really easily. (Devolo setup used to be a nightmare of trial and error, so they’ve really sorted this out). What’s important to know is how Devolo achieves its ‘mesh network’ and that’s through powerline connection and wifi hotspot units that broadcast the powerline connection and mesh it together that way. The unit that connects to the router with ethernet sends the powerline connection to all other mesh units and these each create their own meshed wifi zones. Lots of other companies use wifi rebroadcast to create a mesh network. There are pros and cons to both approaches but I expect the Devolo mesh network to be pretty stable (a speed test on each unit is reporting maximum up and down mbps). From experience with older Devolo units, the odd power demand from an appliance (a boiler starting, for example) can cause brief outage; but only for a second or two). Watching which unit my phone is connecting to as I walk around the house (using the Devolo app) shows it switching efficiently to the nearest unit without dropout of connectivity. Where the system falls short for me is that you have to have a house and grounds where everything is on the same electrical circuit. I needed one of the units to give a wifi mesh zons in our garage (gym space) but because the garage is on its own electrical circuit, the powerline doesn’t work). I had (mistakenly) thought that Devolo Mesh used powerline and/or wifi rebroadcast to give a double layer of network connectivity and so assumed (though to assume makes an ass out of ‘u’ and ‘me!) it would be possible to disable powerline connection to just have that garage unit take a wifi rebroadcast. No such luck - this isn’t possible and so is something to be aware of if having multiple electric circuits in your home/grounds applies to you. My own solution in the end was to add a TP-Link Mesh Extender in the garage gym that is now successfully rebroadcasting wifi from the nearest Devolo unit in the house. Not perfect but working well. My only real negative in the whole Devolo setup was the brief call to Devolo’s customer support number. I explained my want with the garage gym and asked if it were possible to disable the powerline connection on the garage unit to just achieve wifi rebroadcast connection. A German company has a German call centre which is expected and fine but the person didn’t seem to understand the nuance of my query and sort of mansplained me saying ‘powerline is how mesh networks work’. In truth, that’s how Devolo’s mesh networks work and mine works very well thus far but it’s not how all mesh networks work so I felt a bit patronised and ‘told’ rather than helped. On balance though, so far this is a solid and efficient setup that was easy to get going with. (Just note the point about outbuildings and potential of separate circuits).

I usually don't write reviews, but I felt this product deserved some attention, especially to help other people struggling with Wi-Fi coverage at home. After moving to a place well served with fast fibre broadband, I subscribed to a 200Mbps plan and can't complain about it. However, getting the benefits of this internet speed around the whole house (two floors) was quite challenging. I spent months trying to find a decent solution that would not require me to cable the house with ethernet. Having my connection entry point on the ground floor and my office on the first floor was a big issue. I knew that a mesh solution would be the best for wireless coverage and mobility at home, but I *really* didn't want to pull cables even to the access points. I had used powerline (ethernet over electrical cables) solutions from other brands in the past, with limited success and much lower speeds. After doing my internet research on Devolo and this product, I decided to give it a try. My only regret was not having tried it earlier :) After receiving the kit three days ago, I took a quick lunch break, rushed and plugged the equipment into far-below-optimal conditions: double-chained power extensions on the ground floor, a single power extension on the first floor. I knew I had only myself to blame if anything went wrong. To my surprise, after completing the setup of the mesh and turning off the WiFi on my original router, I immediately noticed a huge improvement in several devices at home, what I confirmed later with metrics showing stable speeds slightly over 200Mbps anywhere in the house! Even my Ring doorbell stopped "stuttering". Fabulous product! Super fast and stable powerline and WiFi. Well engineered and spot-on for what I needed. Thanks Devolo!

This is terrible. It wouldn’t even link with my router. Mine just kept flashing red then white then red etc. and there seemed to be nowhere that told you what the problem was or what you could do about it. The WiFi extenders themselves seemed to work fine, they installed ok etc (as someone else has said in their review) but they weren’t connected to the main one so although they were transmitting, they weren’t connected to the internet, a ridiculous design flaw. Again nowhere that you could find out what the problem was. The instructions are ok but not very clear, at one point it just tells you to do the rest with a phone app. But the phone app is useless, sometimes telling you things are connected and sometimes not. Also it kept telling me the main thing was not paired but didn’t say there was a problem, just showed it trying to pair then being unable to. All in all a very frustrating experience and I’ve now sent it back.

This product is amazing! No need for lots of wires and it has its own WiFi built in. It’s a trusted product that I’ve used now for many years and I wouldn’t go with any other product.

Getting setup was not as easy as other powerline adapters as the devices wouldn't see each other out of the box and took some fiddling. There is also not a slick app that let's you control everything as you even if you start in the app all the management is done through Web pages that you open in your browser that are not well optimised for mobile. Once it is finally setup it does work, mostly. Sadly one of the units keeps losing the network and has to be turned off and on again. It's not self healing. And what is worst it still broadcasts WiFi hot-spot if it's offline so devices connect to it but have no Internet. Also although it advertises it has a gigaport and speeds of 1200mbps the satslitte units only have 10/100 ethernet ports so I cannot even use half of my 220mbps Internet connection on my cabled devices. Speedtests direct to router show 200-220mbps and via Magic device ethernet 80-98mbps. Via WiFi I get 200mbps direct and via magic 68-78mbps. So if you have a typical broadband of 50-100mbps this would be a good device but not so much for me. On the plus side it does not use up a power socket like some adapters and it did improve my network where I have too many devices for the router to handle alone but I get similar performance from much cheaper devices. WiFi coverage also improved with strong signal in every room. I have since ordered a faster mesh network solution.

Bought this to replace a TP Link system where it became impossible to link the 3 units so that they showed as one system throughout the house. The Devolo (2 units plus the main wall/pc unit) set up within minutes and the mesh system within the 3 mins suggested. The 'Cockpit' software allows you to manage the system and there's both a smartphone and a PC verison (the PC version is better). Check the clearance you have if fitting behind a desk, because the system is the size of a Volvo estate! The only downside is that the 'brick' comes up above the mains socket (German plugs can be fitted either way, but Devolo haven't changed the plug so that the 'brick' drops down from the socket, but that's a v minor issue. The additional 3rd unit was quickly incorporated into the mesh network as easily as the kit did. Good wifi throughout the house and having set up as a Mesh system, our phones automatically move to the strongest signal as we walk aimlessly around the property. Netflix and YouTube stream really well. Not the cheapest, but excellent kit and an on-line review said that it was the best in the UK for 2021.

Werkt wel, but the speed is MUCH less than WiFi

Fonctionne parfaitement. Branchement enfantin dans le tableau électrique triphasé. Fini la galère de savoir sur quelle phase se trouve le courant porteur. Je mesure 50M en vitesse de download via wifi. Notez bien que les anciennes prises devolo qui ne sont pas marquées Magic sont incompatibles. Il faut avoir uniquement des prises Magic.

Nach dem Einbau wurde die Durchsatzrate von meinen anderen Devolo-Geräten verbessert.

Pontage des phases dans le tableau électrique pour partage du CPL Possibilité de connecter un appareil directement à la source

Cok kullanisli bir urun. Bandwit neredeyse 1 gig