Re: Insteon -- Any New Experiences?

["none" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The white paper explains a lot of what Insteon COULD do. But, if you look on
the product pages to for the actual devices, they don't say they are RF.

But to be fair, when I first started reading about it, I inferred that they
were both powerline and RF (like Z-Wave and X10 combined). However, some
simple research on the web, SmartHome, and etc. explained it pretty clearly
that the devices available now were not RF.

On the positive side, the RF repeaters allow you to get signal to a place
via an alternate pathway.

"fpmacko" <fpmacko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1142210534.767730.265200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Oops.  I erred in the orignal posting.  When I said "boosterlinc" I
should have said "powerlinc", of which I was using the USB flavor as my
PC's interface to the network.  Regarding my reading of the white
paper, while I admit that I didn't take the time to read it as closely
as I should have, you're not entirely accurate in saying they use RF
only to couple the two phases.  The figure on page 8 indicates that
Insteon RF devices are also members of the RF network.  But the bottom
line is that they do indeed advertise this as a wireless system, which
is not entirely true...quoting their literature ...... "INSTEONT is a
powerful, wireless home-control networking technology that simply,
affordably and reliably integrates....."   But it ain't entirely
wireless.  I was looking forward to getting away from the
inconsistencies of my x10 coverage by foresaking powerline signaling.
Their mention of the fact that I may need filters in order to make
Insteon work properly should have been a hint to me that it isn't
really as wireless as they say it is.  But to be fair, their refund was
full and prompt.




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