RE: The Christmas meet....

[Keith Doxey <keith.doxey@xxxxxxx>]

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From:	Mark Harrison [SMTP:Mark_Harrison_UK@xxxxxxx]
The conversations were wide-ranging and spent as much time on home
networking as on HA proper (gosh - just like the list, eh?)

NO surprise there....my personal opinion is that Home Networking, Home
Entertainment and Home Security are all subsets of Home Automation. The
purpose of the automation is to provide an d easy and freindly user
interface to all of the sysyems within the home either by performing
multiple actions from a single user action (eg MACRO's ) or removing
mundane tasks from user interaction altogether (true automation)

Sadly, no-one had brought a digital camera.

Tsk, Tsk

Key learnings: Home Networking

- BT are strongly mis-representing ADSL, some of their literature
descibes it as an "upgrade" to ISDN. It patently isn't - it's a
complementary product aimed at meeting different needs.

My personal feeling is that is is being sold purely as a high bandwidth
pipe INTO the home for delivering Multimedia content :-(
That is NOT what I or most people on this list really want ADSL for.

- Another problem was that one member had a PC in the loft
controlling a CM12. The CM12 did not work reliably when plugged into
the loft main (but worked fine on the first floor ring main) so the
member had bought a long RJ11 extension cable to run down from the
loft-based PC to a CM12 down on the first floor. The CM12 top slot
was slightly too small to take the plug on the extension cable.

Could be that the plug on the lead was an RJ12 not RJ11
RJ11 is 4 contact, RJ12 has 6 contacts but often only 4 are fitted.
Or could be a bad moulding on either plug or socket.


Keith



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