Re: HA Primer - Pos and cons of X-10, Z-wave, Insteon, UPB

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> If the controller is centrally located, 4 hops in every direction
>> can cover a home that is ~200 long by ~200 feet wide
>
>That's nice if it's possible to centrally locate the controller.

If you're the owner of this specious estate and want to walk around the
perimeter of your network while using a handheld remote to control it,
you'll find that you can only control 1/2 (or less) of the network from
anywhere on the perimeter as signals fall off the edge of the earth after 4
hops.