{"id":18528,"date":"2017-08-02T16:47:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T20:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18528"},"modified":"2017-08-02T16:47:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T20:47:53","slug":"powerline-ethernet-adapters-are-everyday-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/02\/powerline-ethernet-adapters-are-everyday-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerline Ethernet Adapters Are Everyday Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/17347\">Josh Centers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/17347\">\n<p>Ultimately, both claims were overstated. Powerline networking evolved quietly but was overshadowed by Wi-Fi, cellular broadband, and fiber-optic networks. Although powerline networking never made it to the big time, it didn&rsquo;t vanish. Rather, it has become reliable, readily available, and shockingly cheap.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to avoid drilling through the ceiling if at all possible, so I checked to see if powerline Ethernet is still an option &mdash; it is! A quick search on Amazon pointed me toward the best-selling TP-Link AV200 &mdash; a $25 kit consisting of a pair of 200 Mbps powerline Ethernet adapters.<\/p>\n<p>If you need more speed, you can pay modest amounts more for the AV500 ($35), AV600 ($50), AV1000 ($40), or the AV1200 ($60). The model numbers correspond to their top throughput, so the AV1200 provides up to 1200 Mbps, which should be enough for gigabit Ethernet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It sounds better and cheaper than I recall.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Centers: Ultimately, both claims were overstated. Powerline networking evolved quietly but was overshadowed by Wi-Fi, cellular broadband, and fiber-optic networks. Although powerline networking never made it to the big time, it didn&rsquo;t vanish. Rather, it has become reliable, readily available, and shockingly cheap. [&#8230;] I wanted to avoid drilling through the ceiling if at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[762,30,1381,476,280],"class_list":["post-18528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ethernet","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-12","tag-networking","tag-power"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18529,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18528\/revisions\/18529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}