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IOGEAR Homeplug Networking Reviewed

Chris Allen writes "Wired or wireless? This is always just about the first thing anyone thinks of when planning their new home/soho office. It always comes down to price/performance/practicality, in whichever order you feel is more important. Sometimes it just isn't possible to run CAT5, for a variety of reasons. The only options available for the average consumer is wireless, HomePNA, which uses your existing telephone network in your house, and HomePlug, using your existing power grid. HomePNA has been around for around 3 years or so, and has matured some, starting out transmitting at dismal speeds and lackluster reliability in regards to interference. HomePlug is short for HomePlug® Powerline Alliance."

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  1. Good Morning, America! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Back to a regular work week!

    New York Jets are on their way to becoming the 2003 Super Bowl Champioooooooooooons!

  2. IOGEAR Homeplug Networking Reviewed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    IOGEAR Homeplug Networking Reviewed!!! more like celda

    1. Re:IOGEAR Homeplug Networking Reviewed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      u r liking the penny arcade :~]

  3. Does it support Linux? by JayJay.br · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damn... imagine a Metropolitan Beowulf Cluster with those...

  4. footsex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Feet are the best things to cause orgasm in mankind. A hot pair of slutty little feet, they are so sexy. Rubbing all over a hot dick.

  5. feet, hot sexy feet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hot slutty feet on a big long dick. sexy stuff folks

  6. you know that your world is poisonous... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ..and that all your luxuries and affluence is built on the profits of ongoing genocide.

    The production of plastic spoils the ecosystem and many stages of its lifecycle. Plastic is made from oil, there is war for oil. People die for your luxury of a keyboard.

    Can you think of a green way to construct a computer? Yet billions are still produced, intoxicating the food chain.

    It's all connected, this civillization is headed for meltdown. Economic systems are collapsing, the environment dying, the world is spiritually corrupt.

    but you sit there, oblivious, ignorant, as the world turns to shit for your technocratic existence in the affluent first world.

  7. To plug or not to plug by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that is the question with gaysexwithdogs, to use buttplug or not.... and do you prefer german shepherds or labrador retrievers.... my bitches are hottest on block!

  8. Re:Will it work as good? by ediron2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Aiieee... Who thought this was intelligent? How the screamin' George Jetson did that get to a 5!? This is arguably the dumbest damn mod-5 posting I've ever been subjected to. Thank the gods at least one person has -1'd it for being 'overrated'.

    C'mon, folks, this isn't 'news for nimrods' or Networking for Idiots! I expect this sort of post-hallucinagenic half-witted technobabble based on guesses from normal people who discover I'm a computer expert, but not from technically-inclined geeks!

    This post seems to imply a whole slew of people (moderators and poster) don't digest the technical basics in /. stories enough to understand basics like digital signals allowing better noise cancellation (taking the ring out of untwisted copper well enough to enable DSL or T-1's), frequency-based filtering (notch filters, chokes, ham radio, and LRC circuits), and a slew of other concepts probably involved that I have no clue on, since I'm no expert on stuff that involves digital via telecom systems (opto-isolators, for example).

    But, for crissake, I don't pop off with my half-baked stupid/fearful ramblings because a misinstalled cheap-ass Radio Shack intercom based on 20-year-old analog technology buzzed a lot , and/or moderate up stuff that I don't know beans about as 'insightful'.

    Here's a simple (and I thought obvious) rule, moderators:

    If you don't know the subject well enough to know who is an expert and who isn't, don't GUESS . Just don't moderate the posting. Wait for an expert to do the peer review.

    Ohmigod. I just noticed the grammar gaff in the title. Will it work as well, not good. That clinches it. Slashdot's been hacked or redirected to some wierd Jeff Foxworthy Redneck alternate Slashdot. I can't wait for the Monster Truck, WWF and Nascar stories to flood in...