Review: Belkin Powerline AV Starter Kit
Because our phone line is in the kitchen, our hallway is lined with those lovely blue networking cables to reach our internet-accessing computers and gaming systems in the loungeroom.
Belkin has released an interesting networking alternative with the Powerline AV Starter Kit. In a nutshell, you plug in their nifty doo-dahs into power sockets in your house and voila! Networking using your powerlines and now more ugly networking cables!
Each kit provides 2 adapters, roughly the size of a short and fat external hard drive. At one end we plugged an adapter into a power board and used the supplied networking cable to plug it into our router. At the other end we plugged the second adapter into another power board and into the back of our switch. Straight away, everything was working as it should. We haven’t specifically tested Belkin’s claims of transfer speeds of 200Mbps, but after several days of testing we are yet to see any noticeable decrease in our transfer speed.
Shopbot quotes prices between $204.00 and $244.00, so it’s not exactly a cheap networking solution, but for those of us who despise all those blue cables running through the house, this product is just what we need.
Brad was telling me about these things he could get in the USA ten years ago…. Im glad they have finally brought them here.
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TEN YEARS AGO??? bloody helll, we really are behind, aren’t we?