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I could not rewire my house. There was too much distance and too many obstructions for wireless - and I was concerned about security. I installed the Linksys phoneline router and USB phoneline adapters. Everthing installed easily. Works great. And has been working great for about a year. Slower than Ethernet (I can tell when I transfer files between PCs) - but faster than my DSL connection - which is all that matters. Anyone who wants a no new wires installation should consider this approach.

In the land of no basements, wiring an existing house for a home network can present problems. When Roadrunner arrived, everyone wanted access from his or her own room. We built a wired network with Linksys components (Router/firewall, switch, print server) downstairs and added a Linksys network to phoneline bridge and 3 Linksys Homelink Phoneline 10 MB USB adapters for computers upstairs in children's rooms.

Installation, primarily consisting of installing drivers and making sure network parameters were set correctly, took 15 minutes for the first one and less than half that for each of the next two. They work exactly as advertised and provide throughput at or close to rated speed. The tremendous increase over dial-up speeds (even with all of us connected to the net) is still appreciated.

The key to making home phoneline networking successful is to buy and use products from one vendor. Ignore any recommendations for mixing vendors' products on one network because doing so increases the chances of incompatibilities with default settings and means that no vendor's tech support line will help.

I would have rated the product 5 stars if it had been a little less expensive.

When it works, the Linksys Homelink 10M USB network adapter is an excellent product. Setup is not a problem. Once set up it vanishes into the background.

However, about six months into the life of this product, my network connection went down. My phones also went down. The phone repairman said that the jack that this Homelink was on had a short in it. My phones and the jack worked fine after I unplugged the Homelink.

I contacted linksys for a replacement under warranty, and they replaced the defective unit with one that worked for about two more months. Linksys has not responded to my second request for warranty replacement. The original still had 4 months warranty on it.

I always connect my phoneline nics and modems to the phoneline with a surge protector. It appears to me that this is a defective product.

Purchased a Linksys Phoneline router and USB Phoneline network adapter and instantly networked my home office and kid's computer. Now we all have the DSL!

Very happy

I PURCHASED this homelink system from earthlink when I signed up for the DSL line. The DSL connection for the main computer work fine with the home portal system. The additional DSL link LYNKSYS which was supposed to work for the lap top only works through the home portal system. I have been told that the phone wiring in my house is the cause of this problem. Also, since the outside wiring works, I cannot return the LYNKSYS and get a refund of my $150.

I was told to hire an electrician to make sure my inside phone wiring works. I mentioned that it works just fine for phones so I had no reason to question its adequacy. Too bad!!!