Highlights:

• Wireless N300 router delivers up to 300Mbps
• Powerline speed up to 200Mbps
• Fast Ethernet ports: 3x LAN, 1xWAN
• Includes one USB 2.0 port you can configure for network Storage, 3G or WCN

D-Link introduces new DHP-1320 wireless router with built-in powerline AV. DHP-1320 is powered by the 802.11n technology delivering the speed up to 300Mbps for wireless network and up to 200Mbps for power line AV network.

With DHP-1320 wireless powerline router, you can create high speed wireless network up to 300Mbps in ideal conditions, and it also creates a building-wide network using the available power outlets within the house by installing the powerline AV adapters such as DHP-307AV. Powerline connection is secure by using the 128-bit AES Encryption.

One of the advantages of powerline network using the electrical wiring is that you can install a powerline adapter in the farthest corner of the house where the wireless signal strength is significantly low or dead spots. While running the backbone cable is difficult task to do, drilling the wall, opening the ceiling and so on. With the speeds of up to 200Mbps through electrical wiring is fast enough for streaming HD video, large file data transfer, gaming and so on.

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Easy Installation

Installation is easy, plug the router into the power outlet and your home is ready for building-wide network using the existing electrical wiring. It includes a PowerLine Sync Connection (ENY) Button for easy connection of the Powerline AV adapters. While for wireless connection, the router supports the Wi-Fi® Protected Setup™ (WPS) for simple push-button wireless network configuration for wireless clients with WPS-enabled.

For wired connection, the DHP-1320 wireless powerline router is embedded with the 3-10/100Mbps Ethernet port to let you connect your desktop with NIC adapter enabled. To assure the constant internet connection, the router includes built-in QoS prioritization engine.

The figure below shows a networking scenario where DHP-1320 wireless powerline router is installed in the first floor and multiple home theater devices including Blu-Ray player, XBOX, HDTV with Ethernet-ready, etc are installed on the second floor.

The Powerline AV 4-port Switch (DHP-346AV) is used to connect the Blu-Ray player, XBOX game console, a desktop PC, and Boxee Box to the home network. If the wireless signal cannot reach the farthest corner of the second floor building, you can install a D-Link DHP-W306AV powerline range extender. DHP-W306AV is a high speed Powerline wireless range extender to build your home wireless network using power outlet – eliminating the backbone cable.

DHP-1320 N300 wireless powerline router is ideal solution to create a building-wide network using the exiting power outlets.

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Netgear WNXR2000

Another similar product Wireless powerline router is Netgear WNXR2000 which is a Wireless N300 router (Netgear WNR2000 v3) with Built-in Powerline Adapter (XAVP1000) integrated into the power adapter.

Main features:

• Wireless N300 technology – up to 300Mbps wireless connectivity
• Powerline speed up to 200Mbps
• Includes Fast Ethernet (10/100Mbps) LAN (3x), 1x for Powerline AV connection and WAN (1x) interfaces
• Guest network
• Support WMM-based QoS

The main differences for WNXR2000 Vs DHP1320 are USB port in DHP1320 (to let you share storage, 3G or Windows Connect Now) and Guest network support in WNXR2000.

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