Although WiFi is pretty common these days, but some paranoids are still kind of reluctant to setup WiFi, especially in their homes. Those paranoids are worried that the wireless signal will bring negative impact to health, so they would still prefer to fall back using wired solution.
Wired solution will always leave you with some internal wiring messiness. But now there is a pretty neat solution, by using powerline networking, which makes use of the electrical wiring in your home to serve as quasi-networking cable for transmitting network signals from one room to another room.
Belkin has just rolled out a new product in the powerline networking category.The Belkin Powerline AV+ starter kit, consists of a three-port adapter that lets you hook up to multiple devices including your computer, A/V equipment and gaming console etc. And a one-port adapter that lets you hook up to an Internet router. And both these two adapters are plugged into any available wall power outlets. Voila, the devices that are hooked up to the three-port adapter can now share the Internet connection via the router that is hooked up to the one-port adapter.
The data transfer rate over the powerline using the Belkin kit is said to to be upwards of 200/Mbps. And it provides 128-bit AES link encryption with key management that keeps data well protected from hackers that could be eavesdropping over the electrical wires. The Belkin’s powerline kit is available in October and carries a price tag of $180.
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July 13th, 2008 at 5:46 am
My wife is one of those paranoid people and I am back to using the old wired router. This sounds like a better option.
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