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Instant home networks using mains wiring and rated at 200Mbits/sec will be available in Britain before summer – but come with the predictable tussle over standards.

Netgear will ship 200Mbits/sec adapters, costing €120, that provide an Ethernet port by simply plugging them into the mains. They use a chip from the Spanish company DS2. Products using chips conforming to the latest HomePlug AV specification from the HomePlug Powerline Alliance (HPPA), a consortium of interested companies, will also go on sale rated at 200Mbits/sec.

Dave Everitt, European products and platforms manager at AMD, said the company has tried both home plug technologies and the Netgear/DS2 device was much faster. 'We’ve been getting 147Mbits/sec,' he said.

Panasonic is also going to push power-over-mains kits using its own technology, High-Definition Power Line Communication, or HD-PLC. This is rated at 190Mbits/sec.

But Panasonic has retreated a little from last year when it talked of putting HD-PLC modules into consumer electronics devices like TVs and hi-fi equipment. This, it has to be said, would be convenient: devices would be networked simply by plugging them in.

Sounds cool eh? i really wouldn't mind one of these