Buffalo PowerLine Adapters
For a small to medium business having trouble with Wi-Fi
connections, this is a problem which can actually stop you dead in your tracks,
or at least make you much less mobile than you would like to be.
If you have a conference room that isn't able to connect to
the network or your office space might be on different levels causing
connectivity issues, the solution can become costly and disruptive.
I had a similar situation at home, where my home router was
just not powerful enough to travel a distance of several metres through walls
and upstairs. The Buffalo Powerline Adapter came to the rescue, no need to
drill holes and extend cables, or even buy a stronger router.
This solution was definitely a "plug-in-and-go" product. The
box comes with two chunky units: use the Ethernet cable to plug from your
router into the first unit and then plug it straight into the wall, I then took
the second unit upstairs and plugged it into a second outlet.
Within two
minutes I was streaming HD content in areas of the house which were previously
complete blackspots.
The units both come with individual access codes, so
theoretically it can act like setting up a guest network for your business.
The technology runs the internet at top speeds of 500 Mbps
through the home electricity grid - pretty clever if you ask me. And the whole
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What are power line adapters?
Surge protectors on steroids. Instead of just eliminating large surges, they also eliminate small scale surges, aka "noise". They are used to protect expensive or sensitive equipment from the run of the mill fluctuation's that are small enough that most people and devices don't notice them.
edit:
While line adapters can refer to surge protectors on steriods, that could also refer to a device that you plug into your wall outlet that uses your homes electrical wiring like network wiring. You can piggyback networking signals over the same wires that provide you electricity. You would plu…
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