Broadband over power line, which uses existing AC power lines in your home as a computer network, is not a new technology, but it is just beginning to reach the North American home-user market. Bell ...

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 ...

Bell Sympatico's HomePlug uses existing AC power outlets to create a broadband computer network, and while the company calls it a consumer product, that's underselling it -- HomePlug would be perfect ...

Standards encourage the adoption of new technologies because they provide assurance that products made by different manufacturers will work together. When you buy a wireless router, you don’t worry ...

Two adapters are being released, one to connect USB ports to a HomePlug network and one to connect Ethernet ports to HomePlug. With the HomePlug-to-Ethernet adapter, you can connect a switch or router ...

When Wi-Fi alone can’t manage your streaming-media needs, a network using your home’s electrical wiring can often help. HomePlug AV2 MIMO powerline networks—the latest and fastest version of the ...

AC wires can be accessed from multiple spots in any room where a computer is in use. What's more, by deploying what are known as "powerline adapters," system builders can deploy those AC wires inside ...

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 simple is it to network your home via existing power lines? I connected my PC’s Ethernet port to a powerline adapter and plugged that adapter into a power strip that already fed several other ...

The concrete and plaster in his Rathdrum, Idaho, house blocks Wi-Fi signals. But computer consultant Marc Schoenberg found a way to network the six devices in his house without stringing Ethernet ...