{"id":24320,"date":"2015-06-04T02:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=24320"},"modified":"2015-05-15T18:57:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T01:57:20","slug":"trendnet-powerline-power-to-wireless-access-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/trendnet-powerline-power-to-wireless-access-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Trendnet Powerline Power-to-Wireless Access Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our kitchen is a Wifi deadspot. I&#8217;ve tried using wireless extenders, but I think my walls have chicken wire in them, turning every room into a Faraday cage. This Trendnet Powerline power-to-wireless access point) is exactly what I was looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Powerline is a sort-of standard for data networking over an existing electrical system. I already had a Powerline adapter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B002TU59FA\/cooltools-20\">this one<\/a>) that&#8217;s plugged into my router, so I simply plugged the Powerline wireless access point into an AC outlet in the kitchen and configured it up by plugging an Ethernet cable between it and my laptop. In a matter of minutes, our kitchen had Internet that is good enough for streaming HD video. <\/p>\n<p>The Amazon reviews aren&#8217;t great for this, but I&#8217;ve had no problems with it whatsoever. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00HSQAIQU\/cooltools-20\">power-to-wirless adapter for the same price and a better Amazon rating (and also includes the Powerline adapter that you connect to your router)<\/a>, but I haven&#8217;t tried it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Create a wireless network from any outlet on your electrical system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24325,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24320\/revisions\/24325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}