I stopped at Best Buy on the way home from work today and picked up the D-Link AV500. Set up was easy and my Roku detected and connected to the Ethernet connection without any issues. After running multiple speedtests with WiFi and Ethernet (powerline adapter) using 4 different servers, the WiFi was consistently faster. Using the speed test channel on the Roku, I averaged 22.5 mb/s with WiFi and only 17.8 mb/s with the Ethernet. So I will be bringing it back and sticking with the WiFi.
FWIW, running the speed test on my PC I am getting around 110 mb/s.
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