The “Break it Down” Blog

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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HomePlug Powerline AV II Spec Nearing Release

For the folks that preferred wired connections to wireless (even you Wireless-N folks) rejoice! The HomePlug Powerline Alliance has announced that the AV II specification is nearing completion and will be announced later this year with products dropping early 2009. For those that don’t know, the Powerline spec allows the transmission of ethernet network traffic over [...]

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Building a Fast Home Powerline Network

In this article I’m going to discuss some of the trials and tribulations I went through to build a well-connected high-speed home network using a combination of wireless and Powerline networking technologies. The Problem Building a “fast” network at home can be tricky. Most folks (including myself until recently) have decided to go the wireless route for [...]

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