CONCLUSION

   From the moment i took the devolo dLAN 500 AVPlus Powerline adapters out from their box i had high hopes for them mainly because i felt that the quality of the exterior would reflect their performance. Unfortunately it's quite obvious that this was not the case and so in both tests they were outperformed by all of the 500Mbit/s Powerline kits we have here. Now i really can't say what would happen if i was to test every single Powerline adapter kit in a brand new structure with brand new electricity cables (i really doubt the end results would be any different) but at least in our scenario the devolo dLAN 500 AVPlus starter kit didn't live up to our expectations. As mentioned already however I really did enjoy both the quality of the units and the devolo cockpit software which is not something we see often, at least not with similar devices.

   Although products manufactured by devolo are not currently available in the USA (not online anyways) their presence inside the EU is very strong and so here the dLAN 500 AVPlus Starter Kit (2xPowerline Adapters) retails at around 140Euros. Unfortunately however our scenario leaves little doubt as to how good this particular kit is and because of that we really can't recommend it, at least not to people who want the best and currently the best between all the 500Mbit/s kits we've tested to date is the TPL-402E2K set by TRENDnet. Like i said i really don't know what the results would be had the electrical cables at our office been brand new but with the results we did get (and with two different tools) we feel that the price tag should be a lot less in order for us to justify recommending the dLAN 500 AVPlus kit instead for example the TRENDnet TPL-402E2K one. Perhaps a future firmware update may improve the performance of the dLAN 500 AVPlus units, anything's possible, however right now numbers speak for themselves. 

PROS

- Build Quality
- Integrated Power Socket
- 500Mbit/s Compatible
- AES 128bit Encryption
- devolo Cockpit Software

CONS

- Performance
- Price (For Some)