HomePlug, as I mentioned last week, is a home-network technology that uses the electrical lines in your walls as data network cabling. There are more than 50 products listed as compliant with the ...

Connect a HomePlug device to an Internet feed and suddenly the high-speed Web courses through your home power wires. First you connect one of these HomePlug devices to a broadband modem or router and ...

The HomePlug Powerline Alliance, Portland, Ore., recently announced a technology path for Smart Grid (intelligent energy networks), an infrastructure-critical market poised for rapid growth. The ...

HomePlug hasn't exactly struck it big on the home networking scene but, with so many disparate options (none of which play very nice together) it's not hard to see why. The Powerline Alliance is ...

HomePlug technology -- which uses ordinary electrical outlets to create a home network, sending data through power lines -- has come a long way from its first iteration, where it failed to offer ...

The HomePlug Powerline Alliance, the leading industry group promoting adoption of powerline home networking products, recently announced that it has enhanced the HomePlug AV certification program to ...

Standards encourage the adoption of new technologies because they provide assurance that products made by different manufacturers will work together. When you buy a wireless router, you don’t worry ...

HomePlug has been around for years now, nearly as long as mobile broadband, Windows Mobile and sliced bread... combined. Unlike any of those three, however HomePlug hasn't exactly caught fire in the ...

How would you network your home? Ethernet? WiFi? Something else? HomePlug's not everyone's first choice for home networking, but in some scenarios it's favourable. If radio interference is a problem, ...

We connected with HomePlug before the open of the CES Expo and were able to get a few question and answer sessions regarding their new technology which allows in-home networking over AC lines as well ...

The HomePlug Powerline Alliance is entering the final stage of the specification development process for HomePlug AV, a technology designed to change the way that HDTV, digital audio and Internet ...

HomePlug 1.0 offers a way to build 14-Mbps home networks using house ac wiring. Part of its appeal is that the network connection can be the appliance's ac power cord. Home ac wiring is an extremely ...