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5 Powerline Networking Devices Reviewed 153

Posted by timothy from the floor-to-floor dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Most people who can't or won't hardwire for broadband have an obvious alternative: Wi-Fi. Unfortunately, there can be architectural anomalies between floors or even between rooms that can interfere with Wi-Fi signals, resulting in spotty, or even dead, signals. So what do you do? Well, you can try using a powerline device. Computerworld reviewer Bill O'Brien tests powerline units from Belkin, D-Link, Linksys, Netgear and Zyxel, and compares their performance to that of his wired and wireless setups."

Comment Wired Article (Score 1) 620

by catenx (#24568313) Attached to: China to Build a Zero-Carbon Green City
From Wired Magazine Issue 15.05
"Pop-Up Cities: China Builds a Bright Green Metropolis"
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/feat_popup.html

"Anywhere else in the world, it would have been a thought exercise, done up pretty for a design book or a museum show...These new megacities could evolve into sprawling, polluting megaslums. Or they could define a new species of world city. Unlike New York or London, they are blank slates - less affluent, perhaps, but also free from legacy designs and technologies tailored to the world of the 19th and 20th centuries."

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