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Posts tagged with "powerline"

Powerline Networking for the Homelabs

I inherited, from a stack of old junk hardware, two Netgear Powerline 500 Nano XAVB5101 plugs. I thought I would try it out for a quick network connection between two floors in my new house using the existing power cabling.

Powerline NIC

Wow did I learn a lesson in a combination of networking and electrical power the hard way… with a repeatedly blown breaker.