Netgear PA-301 10MBps Phoneline PCI Adapter Card

Simply install the Netgear PA301 adapters into your computers and plug them into a phone line. Within minutes the cards in your PCs can exchange data and share Internet access. If you swap files, the Netgear PA301 takes approximately 20 seconds to transfer a 15 MB file. Netgear provides a limited lifetime warranty on parts and labor.

What took me a long time to figure out was the connection sharing stuff, but my problems with that had nothing to do with the PhoneLine setup. I have learned some things from the dslreports.com site and the practicallynetworked.com site. My situation was complicated by the need for PPPoE, understanding that that applied ONLY to the gateway machine, and then getting DNS support working. Numeric ping worked well before ping by name! NetGear support has been very good, willing to support most anything.


Simply Amazing   April 30, 2001
Cam Soper (Smithville, MO USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I'm an old hand at networking - I've been doing it since I was 12 (I'm 22 now). This device works AS ADVERTISED. In fact, I was only running a 10 Mbps thinnet network in my home before, and my new HPNA network (made of 3 of these cards) marginally outperforms the coax. Over telephone wire! Without interfering with the phone (or vice versa)! Wow! WOW!

This is a great time we live in.

A note: If you're a novice with networking, I don't know how well the included networking software works. As I said, I'm very familiar with networking, so I just installed the drivers and configured Windows' built-in networking myself. If you know what you're doing, however, this is a definitely a GREAT product.


Worked fine   August 19, 2001
Bruce E. Gold (South Plainfield, NJ USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I already had a phoneline network set up using a product from a different vendor (Linksys). Inserted the PCI card, turned on the computer, and the product installed itself and reconfigured my Windows 98 settings to allow file sharing automatically. Whatever problems I had were not due to this installation, but to the way the Linksys router assigned internet addresses. The Linksys technical support team (for the router) was able and willing to fix the internet address issues on this computer, even though I used a Netgear connector.


Works Great!   May 4, 2001
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

My home setup consists of an ABS K6-2 300mhz system with Windows 98 acting as a server, it is connected to a cable modem via a Farralon 10/100 ethernet card. It branches out to the second floor to two Dell Dimension 166mhz m166s's, one with WIN98SE the other with WIN95 OSR2. It also goes to the third floor to a 400mhz Dell Dimension XPS-R400 with WIN-ME. The server uses Norton Anti-Virus 2001 and ZoneAlarm firewall software. Installation was extremely easy and the whole thing, with shared files and printers was up in running in an hour or two (basically the time it took to install the network cards physically). Throughput is quite acceptable, even with multiple people on the internet at once. The only problems I have encountered is the AOL refuses to stay connected for more than 10 minutes or so if you are typing email, and that ZoneAlarm's settings must be customized to allow for network connectivity. Other than that, everything works as it should, and has been for more than a year. I reccomend this product to anyone who needs to network through their phonelines!