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Let me say this at the beginning: I never thought powerline would be an option for me due to the distance and the age of the wiring in the house. I was wrong. I bought this as my home office is in the basement, but the cable modem/wifi router is on the second floor. I was getting decent reception, but nothing great, and it was making VOIP calls difficult and downloads too slow - work wasn't getting done. So I bought this powerline adapter. I wasn't sure if this would even work - my house is 90 years old and I have no idea when the current wires were installed, not to mention the fact that I was going from the second floor down to the basement - not exactly ideal laboratory conditions. The first thing I did was to get them paired. I decided to pair them first before connecting any network cables, so I paired them in the basement. There's 2 pieces to this kit: the "adapter" which connects to your router, and the "extender" which receives the internet signal and then sends it out via wifi. I pressed the "pair" button on the adapter for 1 second, as instructed, but nothing happened. I noticed the instructions said to press it again if nothing happens, and after the second press, the light was blinking. I went to the extender and pressed the "pair" button for 1 second - almost instantly, the devices paired. Then I unplugged the adapter and installed it upstairs with the ethernet cable connected from the router to the adapter. It paired immediately again. I decided to press the WPS (wifi protected setup) button on my router while I was up there, then ran back down to the basement and hit the wifi button on the extender. The extender copied the wifi settings and began broadcasting my wifi network. I've tested both the wired and wireless connections from the extender - I'm getting 70-80Mbps on average, and have a 100Mbps connection from my ISP, so that's really good all things considered. I was previously getting ~25Mbps and the connection would drop randomly. This is a big improvement and I'm very happy with the setup. It took longer to write this review than to actually get this set up! I'm very impressed by the ease of use and speed considering the circumstances. If it works in my 90 year old house, it should work in yours.