I recently moved the family to some new digs south of Nashville, and the house is nice, has plenty of space, but we are unfortunately still renting while I replenish my cash reserves. I had setup my home office in the upstairs 4th bedroom, but the Tivo and Xbox were downstairs in the living room.

I’m also a wired kinda guy. I know the Xbox and Tivo will both work wirelessly, but if I can plug directly into the network, I always feel better. The problem is, since I’m renting, my ability to effectively get a wire from upstairs to downstairs is significantly hampered. No drilling, no modifying the existing wiring the house, etc.

To my delight, as I was wandering around Best Buy last week (had to replace my monitor cable since the dog had chewed through it), I stumbled across a box from Netgear – Powerline Ethernet Adapters. I wish I had known about these back when I lived in Pittsburgh. I had wires running all over the house and in the walls. These would have saved me a lot of weekend hours and sweat.