They are fairly useful.

Netgear’s Powerline AV 500 Adapter Kit uses your home’s existing electrical cabling to bring wired Gigabit Ethernet networking to any room in the house. Throughput speed is significantly better ...

Are the internet speeds on your home Wi-Fi network not meeting your expectations? There is a relatively inexpensive and straightforward solution to this: powerline adapters. Over the years, Wi-Fi ...

AC wires can be accessed from multiple spots in any room where a computer is in use. What's more, by deploying what are known as "powerline adapters," system builders can deploy those AC wires inside ...

If you’ve never heard of powerline adapters before, we wouldn’t blame you. It’s an extremely useful technology, but not necessarily one that has received mainstream popularity. Powerline adapters ...

The Trendnet Powerline 500 AV2 is an easy recommendation if you want to extend your home network to that far corner of the house. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor Former CNET editor Dong Ngo ...

Want to have access to wifi out in the garage/backyard etc. It is a detached garage. My initial thought would be powerline adapters. I have never used one, can you recommend one or two? I would prefer ...

Actiontec's 500 Mbps Powerline Network Adapter Kit is the smallest such adapter we've seen yet, but it does the job. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been ...

The concrete and plaster in his Rathdrum, Idaho, house blocks Wi-Fi signals. But computer consultant Marc Schoenberg found a way to network the six devices in his house without stringing Ethernet ...

Powerline networking technology might sound complicated, but it's not. The technology simply extends an Ethernet network via existing 110-volt wiring. The only special equipment you'll need to bridge ...

How simple is it to network your home via existing power lines? I connected my PC’s Ethernet port to a powerline adapter and plugged that adapter into a power strip that already fed several other ...