CeBIT 2007: Linksys PowerLine AV Ethernet Kit announced

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• Power Line Adapters (PLAs) whilst seemingly a good solution to home
  networking are essentially a very poor technology. They pollute the
  radio spectrum, interfere with your neighbours radio (preventing
  reception of Short Wave broadcasts) and do not adhere to the European
  EMC directives.
  
  They rely upon your internal house wiring to pass signals between
  units. Unfortunately, your house wiring is a good aerial and these
  signals go far beyond your house, many 100s of yards and in some cases
  get into external telephone lines and street wiring and have even been
  known to radiate from lamp posts. The units effectively become the
  same as an illegal radio transmitter.
  
  The government and OFCOM know the problems regarding PLAs and will
  respond when complaints are made by your neighbours, by removing the
  devices, so please ensure that the retailer has a sale or return
  policy. In a lot of cases involving BT, this translates to BT
  replacing the PLAs with CAT5 cabling.
  
  Home networking has a perfectly good wireless system based on the IEEE
  802.11 standard (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11). This
  is commonly called WiFi and operates at frequencies (2.4GHz) that do
  not interfere with other equipment. It is legal, adheres to all
  European EMC directives and allows you to transfer your broadband and
  gaming system throughout the house.
  
  There are campaigns afoot both at local and governmental level to have
  PLAs removed from the shops and banned. Australia has already taken
  steps to ban PLA devices.
  
  So in reality, they are not such a good idea after all.
  
  Posted by g4tra,
• I read exactly the same comments, allegedly written by someone else on another site - strange that!
  This is simply a group of radio enthusiasts who put their hobby above everybody else. Posted by Paul Tarry, UK