The “Break it Down” Blog

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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OpenGL 3.0 Spec Released - Community Revolts

It looks like the OpenGL 3.0 spec has finally been released by the Khronos™ Group and so far the community response has been: “You can shove that right back up your ass, we are going to DirectX”. Ouch… Shortly after the announcement game development forums were a-buzz with negative reactions to the spec essentially saying that it [...]

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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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