So, you’ve set up a home office in the spare bedroom, or built yourself one in the garden. Or maybe you’ve moved to a new house with particularly thick walls. In any of those instances, Wi-Fi on its ...

Most people know about the two most common ways to get internet connectivity throughout their house. The first is the tried and true hardwired Ethernet cable. The thick, unwieldy Cat6 Ethernet cable ...

Using your house's electrical wiring to run wired internet connections can be a great idea for getting fast internet without running ugly cables across your floor. However, the speed and performance ...

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 ...

Ethernet cable (either CAT5e or CAT6) is the gold standard of home-networking technology. If you can string cable from your router to everywhere you need Internet access, do it. You’ll get out-of-this ...

Wireless networks today are faster, more secure, and more reliable than their predecessors. But to some extent Wi-Fi is a victim of its own success: Search for a Wi-Fi hotspot these days, and you may ...

For those who want to use the electrical power lines in their houses as lines of communication, Cisco this week introduced a line of Powerline products. Under its “Linksys by Cisco” brand, the company ...

If wireless is too much trouble for you, Netgear have also brought a pair of new Powerline networking devices to CES 2010. The Netgear Powerline 200 AV Adapter Kit (XAVB2001) and the Powerline 200 AV+ ...

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 ...

Many systems builders involved in small office, home office (SOHO) networking are aware of the two main choices for building out a network: wired or wireless. But they should also be aware of a third ...