Comments on Netgear HDXB101 Powerline HD Ethernet Adapters

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SteveRedway

5:59 PM on 3 May, 2009

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Power Line Adapters whilst seemingly a good solution to home networking are essentially a very poor technology, polluting the radio spectrum, interfering with your neighbours radio and not adhering to the European EMC directives. Passing these sort of signals, from 2-30MHz down your internal house wiring allows these signal to radiate over several hundreds of meters, much the same as an illegal radio transmitter. The government and OFCOM know the problems regarding Power Line Adapters and will respond when complaints are made by your neighbours in removing the devices, so please ensure that the shop you buy this product from has a sale or return policy.


Home networking has a perfectly good wireless system based on the IEEE 802.11 standards called Wi Fi and operating at 2.4GHz it interferes with no one, is legal, adheres to all European EMC directives and allows you to transfer your broadband and gaming system throughout the house.


There are campaigns afoot both at local and governmental level to have Power Line Adapter removed from the shops and banned, so really they are not such a good idea at all.