In June 2015, CNET said the Extollo LANSocket 1500 power-line adapters, which are based on HomePlug AV2, had the “best power-line performance to date.” At the end of last month, October 2015, the test lab Network FX, a subsidiary of CableLabs, said that, after conducting tests, G.hn adapters using Marvell’s chips “performed better than the Extollo HomePlug AV2 devices in the lab and in the field, under a variety of test conditions in a single network and in multiple networks.” The main chipmakers promoting G.hn (Marvell and Sigma Designs) and HP AV2 (Broadcom and Qualcomm) are all members of CableLabs, which owns Network FX, as are MoCA chip and equipment makers. Marvell contracted for Network FX to perform both the…