NETGEAR Powerline Networking

Link: NETGEAR Powerline Networking. Powerline networking has never lived up to its promise, but new digital home standards adopted by the Universal Powerline Association promise data transfer speeds up to 200 mbps. Real world experience with the new devices is closer to 20 to 40 mbps, fast enough for ordinary networking and Internet stuff, but not fast enough for the future of video media transfer. In any event, if you are uncomfortable with running Cat5 cable through your house or office, and don't want to mess with wireless networking, the new devices may be for you. Figure about $130 per appliance. Just plug your router into the powerline adapter, plug the adapter into the wall, install the software, and go. You can get a kit with two Netgear powerline adapters for around $250.