Netgear, D-Link roll out coax-Ethernet adapter kits to network your home theater

For those of you skeptical of using powerline technology to connect your network-ready home theater devices to your home network when you don’t have nearby Ethernet ports, there’s another option: using a coaxial-cable-to-Ethernet solution like Netgear’s new MoCA Coax-Ethernet Adapter Kit (MCAB1001) or D-Link’s new HD MediaBridge Starter Kit (DXN-221; pictured), both certified by the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA). The premise is pretty much as simple as powerline networking. You plug your cable modem and your router into one of the kits’ two adapters, then plug your cable box and your Ethernet-capable devices like videogame consoles, Blu-ray players, streaming video devices, etc. into the other adapter. Then run coax cable from your adapters (included with the Netgear kit,…
Source: ZDNet