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Thursday, June 21, 2001
http://www.techreview.com/web/essex/essex062101.asp Are Powerline Nets Finally Ready? June 21, 2001 By David Essex Vendors regroup after the debacle of first-generation home networks. Home powerline networks came with a powerful promise: plug some special boxes into standard electrical outlets, and you've got instant Ethernet. Unfortunately, they didn't keep the promise: consumers often found setup difficult and performance poor to nonexistent. In fact, vendors readily admit they failed the first time out. Inari of Draper, UT, sold 50,000 units of its PassPort Plug-In Network kit that offered "about 90-percent outlet coverage," says Ryan Ashton, vice president of marketing. "The problem was that different outlets wouldn't work at different times." Now Inari and competitors are beginning to ship next-generation hardware that they claim will run reliably at near-business-class speeds approaching 10 megabits per second, with a leap to 100 megabits per second just over the horizon. They say the improved networks will give rise to new consumer-electronics gadgets, such as Internet radio alarm clocks and streaming video players that work in every room of the house....
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