Want to network your home office or business? Wireless is definitely an option; and if you have the courage or the time, you can even do it the old way and crawl under the floor and drag wires from room to room, or pull a cable through the ceiling.
But Wireless without Wifi? Here’s how:
There’s a third alternative: Use your electrical wiring. With HomePlug AV, you use power lines to move anything you’d transfer through a regular network–data, movies, TV signals, and so on. Learn more about it at the HomePlug Powerline Alliance site.
The advantage over Ethernet cabling is, of course, that HomePlug AV is easier to install, and at 200 megabits per second is faster than Ethernet’s 100 mbps. And with HomePlug AV you avoid Wi-Fi dead zones and range issues.
I recently tried HomePlug AV hardware from Actiontec, and I’ll tell you about it this week. But first, a public service announcement…
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