After reading hundreds of emails concerning wifi problems, I am considering using Netgear's wall-plugged ethernet bridge. This is a powerline solution, using the household wiring. Good reviews out number bad 10 to 1. Anyone here had experience with them.

Hi sideliner;
I've been thinking about what your proposing, if they have aa unit here in town, i'll buy it and try it and post the results tomm.

Great idea........even if it half works :-)

Moon:

These bridges are hard to find. None so far in Dallas area. Netgear does not list it on their online store. Made a quick call to customer service(sounded like the far east) and the confirmed short supply. Probably order from New Egg. BTW, there has been a saftey recall. Consists of taping housing until they redesign. Encouraging that Netgear lauched a formal recall http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/xe102.asp

FYI. I purchased two XE102 units from New Egg ($50.00 ea). Plugged every thing in, set up encryption(included disk) and had my upstairs computer and TIVO talking to my downstairs TIVO. All home media options work fine. Only slight disapointment is transfering programs between Tivo's has been at 8Mbps not 14Mbps as advertised. Still working on that. All in all im satisfied. Apparentely electrical load on household wiring can slow things down. More later if anyone is interested.