Whilst purchasing a MyBook at PC World today I noticed they were selling the excellent Devolo Powerline AV200 Starter Pack (2 adapters) for £99, abot £20-30 cheaper than online. For the uninitiated, the PowerLine standard allows devices which look like normalhouse plugs but with an Rj45 Ethernet connector to join your various devices using your home electrical wiring as network cable. This means that you can dynamically run networks in your house without network cabling. It also gets by any limitations of wireless signal loss through walls.
Although its slower than Cat-6 cabling your house for gigabit bandwidth, its very much easier to implement because you just plug the connectors in to a normal plug socket. Up to 255 Powerline plugs can be supported on one electrical main. You can plug any Ethernet device into a Powerline plug, even a switch or hub, or as I do, my ADSL connection. even if you share your power supply cabling (shared house/flat) it still works as you can encrypt the data between your plugs. One interesting option is the wireless LAN extender which allows you to add a wirless access point at a distant point in your house using the mains cabling, and it works very well.
Hint: if you are starting out you need at least two plugs, so get a starter kit
