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 ...

Powerline adapters have long been seen as a solution to increasing your network range at home, and to an extent, it does work ...

CNET explains how to get your "no Wi-Fi" home theater gadgets on your home networking without using Ethernet via power line adapters, MoCA adapters or wireless bridge adapters. Matthew Moskovciak ...

As an alternative to using regular Ethernet or Wi-Fi to connect more devices to a home network, try the high-speed ZyXel PLA4205 power line adapter. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor Former CNET ...

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 ...

Charliehendricks281 needs to extend his network across a large house. He asked the Networking forum if a Powerline solution would make more sense than wireless. [Email your tech questions to ...

A long, long time ago in a blog post far, far away, I wrote about the various speeds you can expect to see across common wired and wireless network standards. We got chummy with fast and gigabit ...