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Originally Posted by jonny-zed 
In short, fantastic! Lengangi, you wil not be disappointed.
The first bit of great news was that I actually received the kit the day after ordering it from Newegg (was expecting 4-7 days for shipping)! Excellent. It couldn't have been easier to set up. Plugged the single-port unit into a wall outlet near my router, connected the Ethernet and voila! Green it went! At the opposite end of the house, I plugged the 4-port switch into the wall outlet near my 590 and my receiver and connected both of those. Again, voila! Everything went green. The BDP auto-sensed the connection and learned it's Internet settings via DHCP. Same with the receiver. It all just worked. Keep in mind that the kit comes with 2 Ethernet cables, so if you have more devices to plug into the switch, then *you* have to supply the Ethernet cable. I have a drawer full of them so no issues.
Then I sat down to stream some Netflix. Could see right away how quickly the 590 connected, then how quickly the movie (the documentary "Marley" about Bob Marley) loaded. I pushed the display button on the Sony remote to monitor quality. At first it indicated SD/High, but then quickly changed to HD/Medium and almost immediately HD/High indicating 1080p (1920x1080/60p). The audio started out as DD+ and stayed that way. I then watched that entire movie and part of another and no buffering, consistently excellent quality, basically everything I'd hoped would happen.
Worked great for the AVR too. I did a firmware update via the 'net then set it up to stream Pandora (the 590 does this as well) and that worked great as well.
Bottom line is that this seems to be a terrific alternative to WiFi when your WLAN environment is not optimal. And provided your house has decent wiring.

In short, fantastic! Lengangi, you wil not be disappointed.
The first bit of great news was that I actually received the kit the day after ordering it from Newegg (was expecting 4-7 days for shipping)! Excellent. It couldn't have been easier to set up. Plugged the single-port unit into a wall outlet near my router, connected the Ethernet and voila! Green it went! At the opposite end of the house, I plugged the 4-port switch into the wall outlet near my 590 and my receiver and connected both of those. Again, voila! Everything went green. The BDP auto-sensed the connection and learned it's Internet settings via DHCP. Same with the receiver. It all just worked. Keep in mind that the kit comes with 2 Ethernet cables, so if you have more devices to plug into the switch, then *you* have to supply the Ethernet cable. I have a drawer full of them so no issues.
Then I sat down to stream some Netflix. Could see right away how quickly the 590 connected, then how quickly the movie (the documentary "Marley" about Bob Marley) loaded. I pushed the display button on the Sony remote to monitor quality. At first it indicated SD/High, but then quickly changed to HD/Medium and almost immediately HD/High indicating 1080p (1920x1080/60p). The audio started out as DD+ and stayed that way. I then watched that entire movie and part of another and no buffering, consistently excellent quality, basically everything I'd hoped would happen.
Worked great for the AVR too. I did a firmware update via the 'net then set it up to stream Pandora (the 590 does this as well) and that worked great as well.
Bottom line is that this seems to be a terrific alternative to WiFi when your WLAN environment is not optimal. And provided your house has decent wiring.
Glad it worked out so well. It's a good idea to update firmware for both adapters and install Netgear Powerline Utility to monitor link speed. Netflix should go up HD/X-High if your connection bandwidth is adequate.










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) video, which adds two new encodes, at 4300 Kbps and 5800 Kbps, both 1080p. You can only get them, however, if your ISP is set up to get to their new Open Connect CDN (Content Distribution Network). Right now the only major ISP is the cable MSO Cablevision, but there are several small cable providers around the country who can get it (they make sure to note that Google Fiber is one of them, though they currently only serve some minor subset of Kansas City). They've also added some 3D encodes, which they say will need 12 Mbps of available connection bandwidth. (In general figure on needing between 120-130% more connection bandwidth than the stream encoding bit rate to keep up with it, so a bit over 5 Mbps for that 4300 Kbps encode and about 7 Mbps for the 5800 Kbps one). They're asking customers to ask their ISPs to add access to Open Connect
. And it's "Super HD", two words (well, a word and an acronym).