I'm having similar problems to what many of you are talking about with AVdesk 200. I can connect for a couple of minutes, seems fine @~35Mb/sec (which is suspicious, according to one post). Not on a power strip, but is a multi-plug outlet, and is sharing a power outlet with all my local computer, route, external hard disk, etc.
I just updated both with new firmware (3.3.4 is what is indicated on the update file).
Still, they drop, and don't reconnect. The power on the second unit is not shared.
The big problem is that I don't have any other power nearby, so I can't fix this with additional power isolation.
Wireless (at least, standard 802.11G) doesn't work since my floors are a big Farady shield due to in-floor heating systems.
Any ideas? Does anybody have any experience with 802.11N if I can't get this to work? I'm avoiding 802.11N as a solution due to other complexities (eg, my current gateway/router is provided by Swisscom, my ISP, and I am locked out of config so can't replicate settings).