Anyone who’s wriggled through spider-infested crawl spaces and drilled into beams and walls in order to run Ethernet cable through a home or office has undoubtedly thought, “There’s got to be a better ...

HomePlug hasn't exactly struck it big on the home networking scene but, with so many disparate options (none of which play very nice together) it's not hard to see why. The Powerline Alliance is ...

HomePlug 1.0 offers a way to build 14-Mbps home networks using house ac wiring. Part of its appeal is that the network connection can be the appliance's ac power cord. Home ac wiring is an extremely ...

There’s a new way to connect your small office network, and it’s called the SpeedStream HomePlug router. The SpeedStream 2524 is a four-port Ethernet router with 802.11b wireless and HomePlug power ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — The HomePlug Powerline Alliance announced the completion of its 1.0 specification for powerline-based home networks at PC Expo on Tuesday (June 26), and said vendors will bring to ...

Powerline Alliance’s next-generation specification defines future home networks. Last week, the HomePlug Powerline Alliance unveiled HomePlug AV, the successor to HomePlug 1.0. With the announcement ...

Looking for a fast and reliable way to extend your home network to that corner where a Wi-Fi signal can't reach? The ZyXel Homeplug AV2 Gigabit Powerline Adapter Starter Kit might be the right answer.

How would you network your home? Ethernet? WiFi? Something else? HomePlug's not everyone's first choice for home networking, but in some scenarios it's favourable. If radio interference is a problem, ...

Western Digital's bread and butter is (and will likely remain) storage, but as we all know, all the storage in the world is useless if you can't access it. It only makes sense, then, that the company ...

HomePlug networks that use the electrical wires in your home to transfer data are distributed by some of the world’s biggest broadband providers and available at major retail stores, but even HomePlug ...

The Netgear WNXR2000 is basically a midrange Wi-Fi router bundled with a HomePlug AV brick and a special cable–not the most elegant way to integrate the two network technologies. For some time, ...

(Looking for instructions on how to share files and printers between Windows 7, Vista, XP, and even a Mac? Read our new How To Set Up Your Home Network, Windows 7 Edition.) If you have more than one ...