Networking over the mains (Powerline)
If you want to have 2 or more PCs sharing your broadband facility at home or need to network a few PCs in different rooms around the house or office what do you do?
If, like us, you don’t want to run cabling between rooms and the walls are too solid to allow reliable wireless you need another solution.
Step forward Powerline technology.
All you do is buy a pair of matching or compatible network to power adapters. Plug one into a power socket near your broadband router and connect it to the router using the network cable supplied. Then plug in the other at a mains socket near the PC you want to link in. Connect the unit to the PC with the other supplied cable and Robert is your father’s brother!
We’ve used two sorts successfully here at chateau RFG. The first was from Netgear (XE104) but has now been superseded and the second is from ZyXEL (PLA400). You might still be able to get the PLA400 from places like Scan (www.scan.co.uk) or Ebuyer (www.ebuyer.com) but you might now only be able to get the newer version, the PLA-401 v2.
