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Panasonic Set to Release New Powerline Adapters at CES

PCWorld reports that Panasonic has announced they will be debuting some new Powerline devices at CES this year (in less than 2 days!). We can only hope that these new powerline adapters are the HomePlug Powerline AV II spec-compliant devices that we’ve been waiting for… for like 2 years. The hope being that the Powerline AV [...]

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NETGEAR Releases XAVB101 & HDXB111 200 Mbps Powerline Adapters

We have been waiting for revised, higher performance Ethernet-over-Powerline adapters since our “How to build a high performance Powerline home network” article in June of 2007. It seems that after the initial HomePlug 1.0 spec which was a 4 or 7 Mbps spec, things were going quick. We got the HomePlug 1.1 spec that bumped [...]

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