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Originally Posted by Kipper is King
It uses the existing wiring in your home as psuedo-ethernet cable.
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More like a phone line and DSL modems really - you've only got two strands of wire to work with and no shielding, so you're converting the network data to an analog signal you can ride on top of the line voltage, and then converting it back from analog to digital at the receiving end.
IEEE 1901:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1901
What's interesting about this, and something I didn't realize in my post earlier, is that if the powerline adapters you are buying are Homeplug compatible (those Belkin ones are), they conform to IEEE 1901, and thus interoperate with units from other vendors.