Items tagged with Powerline
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Ray Willington - Fri, Oct 12, 2012
After all of these years, there's still a time and a place for PowerLine networking. When routers just won't reach, and you really don't feel like running 100 feet of CAT5 cabling through your living room, D-Link's new PowerLine AV+ Mini...
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Seth Colaner - Fri, Mar 16, 2012
In an effort to deliver solutions for networking the increasing number of Internet-ready devices that populate the average home, TRENDnet is now shipping the TPL-405E, a powerline adapter equipped with four Gigabit Ethernet ports and 500Mb/s speed. As long as one adapter is connected to a...
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Ray Willington - Wed, Jan 25, 2012
Is Powerline networking making a comeback? Possibly! After years of remaining relatively off the radar, Powerline tech has been popping up way more often of late. This week, Cisco announced a suite of Linksys HomePlug AV Powerline solutions that allow consumers to use their home network by...
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Seth Colaner - Sat, Jan 07, 2012
TRENDnet is already announcing its next-gen networking products, even though you won’t get to play with them until late this year (unless you’re at CES in a few days). The company’s 1300 Mbps Dual Band Wireless AC Router...
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Ray Willington - Wed, Nov 30, 2011
Powerline isn't as popular as it once was, but it's still living life as best it can. TRENDnet has just launched a new, smaller adapter that's actually poised to hide out pretty well in your living room. The 200Mbps Powerline AV Adapter with Bonus Plug, model TPL-307E, and the 200Mbps...
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Ray Willington - Wed, Sep 07, 2011
TRENDnet's got a new Powerline Adapter for the taking, and if you're tired of playing with a flaky Wi-Fi network (and don't feel like running miles of cable across your apartment), picking up the TPL-306E may be the best solution. It's one of the most compact Powerline adapters we've seen...
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Ray Willington - Sun, May 15, 2011
There may not seem like an immediate connection is there, but we suspect that last week's Android @ Home announcement could help to restart, or kickstart, home automation and powerline networking. Powerline utilities have been kicking around for years now, but they never have truly taken off...
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Ray Willington - Tue, Jan 11, 2011
Powerline networking has been around for longer than we can even remember. Much like Ethernet, it's just something we've grown to expect. But unlike Ethernet, Powerline isn't widely adopted, or at least it's not on the same level overall. Many A/V enthusiasts know about and utilize Powerline...
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Jennifer Johnson - Tue, Nov 23, 2010
TRENDnet announced a 500Mbps Powerline AV Adapter and a 500Mbps Powerline AV Adapter Kit. By plugging a 500Mbps Powerline AV Adapter into an electrical outlet and another to your router, you'll be able to create a secure 500Mbps building-wide network. A Windows utility is included to help you...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Sep 14, 2010
Is little Johnny always complaining about his Internet connection crapping out on the other end of your home? There are a number of solutions, one of which is to make him go outside and play like we used to do as kids. Barring that, you can string Ethernet cord through and around walls and get...
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Ray Willington - Sat, Aug 28, 2010
Sony just recently jumped into the Media Player sector with a new N100 network box, and now an industry mainstay is coming out with another rival: Netgear just debuted the NeoTV 550 and NeoTV 350 HD Media Players. Both of these players...
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Jennifer Johnson - Tue, Aug 24, 2010
With the launch of its new WD Livewire Powerline AV Network Kit, WD is making it easy for consumers to stream HD videos to a home theater, transfer large files, or play multi-player online games throughout their homes without running...
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Ray Willington - Tue, Apr 20, 2010
HomePlug is one of those technologies that have probably been around longer than you know, but it never really took off in a way that Bluetooth and Wi-Fi have. If you've never heard of it, it basically allows signals (usually network...
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Shawn Oliver - Tue, Aug 11, 2009
While Netgear's probably best known for its WLAN routers, the company has recently delved into home networking. To that end, the latest kit is actually quite useful for those looking to make this multimedia more like a networked pool of...
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Shawn Oliver - Tue, Jun 23, 2009
Belkin's latest media streaming solution certainly isn't the first to utilize Powerline, but it's the first that we've seen in quite some while that really instills confidence. Engineered specifically to handle the high pressures of HD streaming, the Belkin Gigabit Powerline Adapters are made...
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Matthew Shaw - Wed, Apr 15, 2009
Equipped with D-Link Green Technology to Detect Data Transmissions and Power Down When Not in Use, Saves Energy and Costs FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., April 15, 2009 — D-Link, the end-to-end solutions provider for consumer and business, today introduced its next-generation PowerLine adapter...
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Daniel A. Begun - Mon, Nov 17, 2008
NETGEAR’s Award-Winning Powerline Adapters for HD and Multimedia Streaming Now Available Innovative Powerline Devices Offer Consumers 200 Mbps Speeds with Broad Options in Technical Design SAN JOSE, Calif. – November 17, 2008 –NETGEAR®, Inc. (NASDAQGM: NTGR), a worldwide provider of...
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Daniel A. Begun - Mon, Oct 20, 2008
Cisco releases new Linksys by Cisco Powerline product portfolioNew Linksys by Cisco Powerline AV and Powerline Turbo products offer space saving design and enhanced connectivityIrvine, Calif. – October 20, 2008 – Cisco today revealed its renewed line-up of Linksys by Cisco Powerline adapters...
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