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STRONG PL600M, HomePlug AV2 pair with 100 Mbit/s sockets review

A HomePlug AV2 pair whose headline figure is six hundred and whose Ethernet sockets are published at one hundred, both stated on the same page.

The bottom line A plain HomePlug AV2 pair with the standard named and the encryption stated. The gap between the six hundred on the box and the hundred at the socket is not hidden here, and it is the whole basis on which to judge it.

On the listing

A powerline adapter set extending a home network over the existing mains wiring with HomePlug AV2 technology at up to 600 Mbit/s, named for high-definition streaming and gaming; plug and play in a minute, paired with a single button press and needing no configuration; 128-bit AES encryption switched on by a button; Fast Ethernet ports at 100 Mbit/s named for smart televisions, computers, set-top boxes and games consoles; and an energy-saving mode that comes on automatically when the kit is idle and is said to cut consumption by up to 85 per cent.

Six hundred on the box, one hundred at the socket

AV600 in the title. 100 Mbit/s LAN port, also in the title. Both figures are published, three words apart, and they describe different links. The first belongs to the mains side and to the specification behind it. The second belongs to the cable you plug in, and it is the one every device meets. Nothing on this page pretends otherwise, which is more than can be said for the category as a whole.

A set without a count

The word set appears twice. A number never does. There is no contents list, no unit count and no note about buying a third adapter later. What the standard name does give is the answer to the question underneath that one: an AV2 unit can generally be paired with another AV2 unit.

Pairing by button

One press, and 128-bit AES on the link. No configuration page, no software, no default password to change. On a family whose units live behind furniture, the pairing method matters more than it sounds.

Before ordering

Count what will hang off the far unit. A hundred megabits shared between a television and a console is a different proposition from a hundred megabits for one of them.

Availability

Priced from 30 € to 47 € across the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores the day this page was checked.

It is stocked on the British Amazon store as well, in that country’s own currency. The range above leaves those out: it counts euro stores and no others.

The American Amazon store returned nothing at all, so the buy button there opens a search in that country rather than a page that would not load.

Every figure in this section is what Keepa held on the day this page was last updated. Stock and prices move without warning.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 10 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.

Where it holds up, and where it stops

Strengths

  • Names the standard, HomePlug AV2, which is what decides whether a third unit bought later will pair with these
  • States 128-bit AES encryption switched on by a button press, so the link is closed without a configuration page
  • Publishes the socket speed in the title rather than burying it under the headline figure, which is the more honest of the two numbers

Compromises

  • A stated 600 on the box and 100 Mbit/s at the socket, which is where everything plugged in actually meets the kit
  • The number of Ethernet sockets is given in the singular in the title and in the plural in the fourth bullet
  • Nothing says how many units are in the box, on a product whose name is a set

Specifications

Powerline standardHomePlug AV2 — stated in the first bullet as the technology carrying the network over the existing mains wiring
Stated peak rate600 Mbit/s — stated in the title as AV600 and in the first bullet as a ceiling of up to 600 Mbit/s. The figure is the theoretical sum the standard defines across the wire pairs it can use, and the electrical path between two sockets in the building settles what happens on it
Pass-through socketNot published on the listing — no built-in outlet, no current rating and no mention of giving the wall socket back appears in the title or in any of the five bullets
Ethernet port countNot published on the listing as a settled figure — the title names a 100 Mbit/s LAN port in the singular and the fourth bullet names 100 Mbit/s LAN ports in the plural, and no bullet says how many sockets each unit carries
Port speed100 Mbit/s Fast Ethernet — stated in the title and in the fourth bullet, named for smart televisions, computers, set-top boxes and games consoles. It is the lowest published socket speed of the five kits here and it sits under a headline of 600
Kit compositionNot published on the listing as a count — the word set is used in the title and in the first bullet, and nothing says how many units are in the box or lists its contents
Wi-Fi at the far endNot published on the listing — no wireless, no band and no access point appears anywhere; the far end is described only as a wired connection
Stated maximum number of paired unitsNot published on the listing — the second bullet describes pairing by a single button press and never says how many units may be joined
Amazon referenceB0G48CXPK2 (same reference on 5 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN9120137872217

The questions that come up before an order

What does the 600 in AV600 count?

The theoretical peak the HomePlug AV2 specification defines across the conductors the standard is allowed to use, added together. It describes the specification rather than a link, and the mains wiring between two sockets decides what happens in practice. This page states the figure and the socket speed side by side, which lets both be read.

Does a 100 Mbit/s socket cap the whole kit?

It caps everything that passes through it, which is everything the kit carries. Whatever the mains link manages, the device at the end of the cable meets a Fast Ethernet socket, and that is the number that governs a download or a stream. The two figures on this page describe different links, and the smaller one is the one you use.