What are those things that send internet over the power lines in your house?

Question

That you plug into your router and then sends the Internet over your power lines. Ha I just repeated myself. But what are they called?

Answer 1

These are called powerline ethernet adapters. They do indeed convert the signal and send it through your powerline. You need one on each end.

http://www.netgear.com/Products/PowerlineNetworking/PowerlineEthernetAdapters.aspx

Have fun.

Answer 2

An emerging technology may be the newest heavy hitter in the competitive world of broadband Internet service. It offers high-speed access to your home through the most unlikely path: a common electrical outlet.

With broadband over power lines, or BPL, you can plug your computer into any electrical outlet in your home and instantly have access to high-speed Internet. By combining the technological principles of radio, wireless networking, and modems, developers have created a way to send data over power lines and into homes at speeds between 500 kilobits and 3 megabits per second (equivalent to DSL and cable).

Answer 3

It sounds like you have eliminated cordless phone interference problems by switching to 5.8 and DECT6. But, just to absolutely exclude any RF interference phenomena, you may want to try a known good "corded" phone. Other than that, I can only speculate that there is problem with your DSL Filter. Double-check that the DSL filter is installed correctly. If possible replace with another filter just to verify that filter is OK. Try plugging the base (and filter) into another phone outlet in different location in house. If none of the above.... a real puzzle... ...Just for fun, try connecting two filters in series before the phone. This will double-filter the line in case the DSL signal is abnormally strong overpowering the phone?? (at this point.... anything goes...)

Answer 4

Yes, there are units to send your ethernet connection through the power lines of your home. Homeplug technology has been around for awhile now.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=211&

Answer 5

mmmm...... as far as I know power lines and internet don't mix power lines only carry power not data so lets see I'm thinking you know this and got your words mixed up I think what your talking about is the phone line or the enternet cable that most computers and hardware use hope this helps

Answer 6

Neverwire modems do just that info at following link.
http://www.homeplugs.net/powerline-computer-networking.htm

Answer 7

Eithernet cables are the yellow cables and the dsL are blue ones....and network cables go computor to computor...