POWERLINE ETHERNET ADAPTER

About Belkin Powerline Ethernet and Homeplug Adapters

Belkin is a well known brand in Home Networking many of us have some form of computing accessories that is made by Belkin.  As home are becoming more connected and are using Powerine Ethernet Adapters in addition to standard Ethernet Gateways, Hubs, and Routers Belkin has manage to keep abreast with the change is home networking with a new line of Powerline Ethernet Adapters.

Belkin has three Powerline Ethernet products on the UK markets: The Gigabit Powerline HD Starter Kit, Powerline AV Starter Kit and the Powerline Turbo Starter Kit.

The Gigabit Powerline HD Starter Kit is the latest in the Belkin range of Powerline Ethernet Adapters.  It allows you to create a multi-user home entertainment network, just using your existing power sockets. There is no need to run more cables just plug and go.  The Gigabit Powerline Ethernet adapter can offer data transfer rate of up to 275Mbps, which means you can run some the most demanding home applications – VoIP, Online Gaming and download HD movies, all at the same time.

The Belkin Gigabit Powerline Ethernet adapter was recently tested by Tom’s Networking Guide, an independent internet channel. The adapter was tested in a lab situation then a real world environment.  From the result of the test, the Belkin Gigabit Powerline Ethernet adapter performed three to four times better than other Powerline Ethernet adapters.
 
This new Powerline Ethernet adapter is compliant with the recently released draft version of the IEEE 1901 standard. The adapter also features Gigle Networks’ Mediaxtream and Xtendnet technologies. Mediaxtream enables home networking devices to deliver wireline Gigabit performance by operating over any combination of powerline, phoneline and coaxial cable mediums.  Xtendnet enables traffic from one or more of these channels to be aggregated, effectively improving coverage, bandwidth and QoS (Quality of Service) as compared to single-medium or single channel solutions.

The Powerline AV Starter Kit offer data speed of upto 200Mbps it is HomePlug AV certified and is an ideal solution for extending internet access within the home. Being HomePlug AV certified it will work with entertainment system in your home that is also certified.

The Powerline Turbo Starter Kit is the lowest spec among the Belkin range, the data speed is 85Mbps and the security is only 64-bit. It is also Homplug 1.0 certified which is not the most recent version. I would say it can still be used if your lifestyle does not demand that much and your entertainment systems will not complain either.