Your Electrical wiring can carry Internet

 Did you know that you can use the power outlets in your home (or small office) for sharing network connections?

That's what this thing does.  It's called a Powerline Adapter.   It plugs into the wall and then there is a network port at the bottom where you connect your network cable from the router (or switch).

These work in pairs (or you can have more than2).  They are usually sold in sets.  Here's a picture of a set I recently reviewed on my Youtube Channel.

These are the HN 2000 Wave 2 Powerline Adapter Kit

The way they work is they're just using the house electrical wiring as a way of sending the signal from one adapter to the other.   You could think of them as a Network Bridge of sorts.  

The big benefit to you is being able to bring Internet (network) connections to places in your home/building that are otherwise hard to reach with wire or WiFi.

They require ZERO PROGRAMMING.  So simple, any non-technical person could install these.

Here are the steps:

1. Unpack

2. Plug one powerline adapter to wall outlet near your router (like less than 20 ft.)

3. Connect Ethernet Network cable from Router port to network port on bottom of Poweline adapter.

4. Plug the other powerline adapter into an wall outlet in some other part of the house, near the computer (or Smart TV, Game console, security cam, WiFi Access Point).

5. Connect Ethernet Network cable from network port on bottom of Poweline adapter to the device needing Internet.

6. Check for green lines on both adapters.

7. Data should now be flowing.  If no green lights on adapters, try different wall outlets.

Here's that video if you want to watch it.

Connecting Android Phone to Router with Ethernet Adapter

 

If you've ever wondered "how could I directly connect my cell phone to my router", well this article is for you.  If reading is not your thing, I also made a video of it at the bottom of this page.

All I did was simply connected this Dell 1gig USB C Network Adapter to my Samsung FE20 Android phone.

Now, I had actually does this before years ago and made a VERY popular video about it, but at that time there was no (easy) way to back feed a router's WAN (internet) port via the Ethernet connection.

However, something changed along the way and I discovered there is now a setting in connections just for tethering via Ethernet.

After that, all I had to do was hook it up to my router's WAN port and I magically had data!   

I also made a video about it HERE.