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At home, the only way to reach my server on the attic from the ground floor seemed to be wireless. At least that is what I used for about a year. The connection let me down quite often, most likely because of the crappy wireless card I have in it (a Sweex wireless LAN PC card 140 Nitro XM, model: LW141).

A few weeks ago my father came with a box of hardware that he did no longer use. One of the hardware things was a D-LINE CPL-85 of Dinh-Telecom. It was just a case of plugging in both devices in the power outlet and the connection between my server and the network was there.

This is of course nice, but I wanted to know a little more about the devices.

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