Until recently, there wasn't much you could do to remedy the situation short of hardwiring your house -- and if you live in a rented apartment, or if you don't want to start drilling holes in your ...

If wireless is too much trouble for you, Netgear have also brought a pair of new Powerline networking devices to CES 2010. The Netgear Powerline 200 AV Adapter Kit (XAVB2001) and the Powerline 200 AV+ ...

So, you’ve set up a home office in the spare bedroom, or built yourself one in the garden. Or maybe you’ve moved to a new house with particularly thick walls. In any of those instances, Wi-Fi on its ...

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 ...

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Powerline performance turns a new page today as D-Link announced the availability of the PowerLine AV2 2000 Gigabit Network Extender Kit (model DHP-701AV). The networking vendor claims that this is ...

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 ...

For those who want to use the electrical power lines in their houses as lines of communication, Cisco this week introduced a line of Powerline products. Under its “Linksys by Cisco” brand, the company ...

Western Digital announces its first powerline adapter kit, the WD Livewire Powerline AV, that offers support to up to seven devices at a time. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with ...

Ethernet cable (either CAT5e or CAT6) is the gold standard of home-networking technology. If you can string cable from your router to everywhere you need Internet access, do it. You’ll get out-of-this ...

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 ...

I’ve been working with computers for ages, starting with a multi-year stint in purchasing for a major IBM reseller in New York City before eventually landing at PCMag (back when it was still in print ...