Home Phoneline Networking

A networking technique utilizing existing telephone cabling in homes or offices to connect computers and other peripherals or to build a local area network (LAN). The technology is standardized and promoted by the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance or HomePNA or HPNA. The Current version of their Home Phoneline Network Certified specifications is 3.0 or HomePNA 3.0 which supports very fast data rate of 128Mbps.

The Requirements for HomePNA 3.0 are:

Telephone Jacks spawned from a single phone line (the phone line does not have to be active). Almost 99% of home telephone wiring in North America works for HomePNA 3.0.

Hardware approved by the Home Phone Networking Alliance. Generally these are all regular hardware such as network cards converting Digital to Analogue and vice versa but the list is getting bigger with many brands of Routers, Software, ISPs, Ethernet bridges and USB adaptors offering Home Phoneline Network Certified versions. Some PCs are even prefitted with the Home Phone Networking Alliance approved adaptors. The average consumer usually needs only network cards.

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