Anyone who’s wriggled through spider-infested crawl spaces and drilled into beams and walls in order to run Ethernet cable through a home or office has undoubtedly thought, “There’s got to be a better ...

HomePlug technology -- which uses ordinary electrical outlets to create a home network, sending data through power lines -- has come a long way from its first iteration, where it failed to offer ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — The HomePlug Powerline Alliance announced the completion of its 1.0 specification for powerline-based home networks at PC Expo on Tuesday (June 26), and said vendors will bring to ...

Last week we discussed the delights of power-line networking based on the HomePlug standard. HomePlug nodes can communicate at up to 14M bit/sec. Note that we wrote “can” and “up to” – anything that ...

Powerline is poised to deliver both whole home networking and broadband services. If you judge a home network technology’s success by its retail presence, then HomePlug is dead. Linksys, Netgear and ...

OTTAWA — Cogency Semiconductor Inc. hopes to drive down the cost of powerline-based home-network designs with the release of a USB/HomePlug reference platform that will enable the development of ...

Home networking IC provider Intellon Corp.'s HomePlug 1.0 with Turbo powerline communications chip will provide "No New Wires" connectivity for DIRECTV's video-on-demand service scheduled to launch ...

The HomePlug Powerline Alliance plans to develop a Broadband-over-Power Line (BPL) standard that electric utilities could adopt to deliver broadband Internet access and other services over their ...

Wi-Fi is good for some things, but when it comes to big-bandwidth applications such as streaming video it really doesn't cut the mustard. Sure, with 802.11n arriving the future is a little brighter, ...

ZyXEL powerline adapters hit the high points, with a four-port ethernet switch, connection-quality indicator light, and useful software. Since a powerline network requires at least two adapters, we ...

Hull, UK, November 20th 2006 – Solwise, a UK based 'Direct Channel' importer and distributor of telecoms and computer products, today announced it has taken on the new VeseNET range of HomePlug ...