Create a wireless network from any outlet on your electrical system

Mark Frauenfelder 2:39 pm Tue Apr 21, 2015

Our kitchen is a Wifi deadspot. I've tried using wireless extenders, but I think my walls have chicken wire in them, turning every room into a Faraday cage. This Trendnet Powerline power-to-wireless access point ($(removed)) is exactly what I was looking for.

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Powerline is a sort-of standard for data networking over an existing electrical system. I already had a Powerline adapter (this one) that's plugged into my router, so I simply plugged the Powerline wireless access point into an AC outlet in the kitchen and configured it up by plugging an Ethernet cable between it and my laptop. In a matter of minutes, our kitchen had Internet that is good enough for streaming HD video. I'm going to get another one for our living room.

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