Belkin Powerline AV+ Starter Kit F5D4075

Second, the Belkin includes multiple ethernet ports in the remote adapter--an extremely useful feature for home-theater applications. You can take advantage of the Belkin's three ports to keep your game console, DVR, and Slingbox (for example) connected simultaneously. The overall powerline throughput (about 60 mbps in our tests) will get split up among those three ports, but you're unlikely to use more than one or two of them at once, and it can easily handle two high-definition streams.

Otherwise, the Belkin kit performs on a par with the other HomePlug AV kits we tested, producing glitch-free high-def video streaming and very good throughput.

The Belkin ships without a software utility, so you can't do things like change the quality of service prioritization on your network. But it does include a color-coded powerline LED that indicates whether your connection is bad, so you'll know whether you should choose a different outlet.

If you have more than one device that you would like to network, or if you want the convenience of desktop mounting, the Belkin may be your best option among powerline kits.