Product Reviews

D-Link is the latest company to offer HomePlug network adaptors with its DHP-301 networking kit. It comes with two HomePlug AV Ethernet adaptors that run your PC's network connection over your power lines.

The adaptors come unconfigured and can talk to any HomePlug AV kit that hasn't had encryption turned on. D-Link ships the simple configuration software on a CD, which allows you to assign a password to your kit.

We ran our usual throughput tests and were impressed with the high speed. While not as quick as wired Ethernet, the results were similar to high-performance Draft-N wireless networking kit. There's enough bandwidth for file sharing and streaming HD video.

The price is also really good, and the DHP-301 costs a little less than our previous favourite kit, Devolo's dLAN 200 AVdesk Starter Kit.