Advance training information is provided to a receiving Home network
station via auxiliary coding, synchronized and / or included in the relevant
Ethernet type packet. The advance training information may be, e.g., past
equalizer, timing
recovery circuit, AGC circuit, echo canceler values resulting from the reception of a previous frame. The training information may be, e.g., an early identity of the source of the packet, with a subsequent lookup performed by the receiving
station for predetermined training value(s), or the training values themselves may be transmitted to the home network
receiver via auxiliary coding. The auxiliary coding information may be transmitted before and / or during the frame
training period of the relevant frame. This permits use of predetermined training values specific to the particular
transmitter based on past frames received from that same
transmitter during the
training period for the received
signal to be further refined from that determined from the auxiliary coding, resulting in more efficient and more accurate training of, e.g., a receiving
equalizer, time
recovery circuits, AGC, echo canceler, etc. Exemplary auxiliary coding techniques include, e.g., BPSK, FSK,
QAM.