Re: Ethernet Power Line Adapters

[HSD <HSD@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <46590d12$0$9921$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
razrbruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> There's a very good tutorial on this at www.netgear.com.

Thanks, I will take a look for it.


> As for the
> neighbors, the adapters do have a security feature to prevent that from
> happening.  Wireless has WPA and WEP and the powerline units have
> something similar.

I was not aware of that. I thought the power line adapters were only
providing a path, essentially turning the house wiring into an Ethernet
cable.  I did not know they had any innate security. I have never seen
it mentioned, but will have to look harder now.

> As for the leg to leg issue, it would, of course
> depend on the individual house.

True, but depending how robust they are, it might work in 20% of all
cases leg to leg or 95%.  I have no experience as to what the
probability of success is for leg to leg.

Thanks for your input.

>
>  HSD wrote:
> > I am looking for information on Ethernet power line adapters.  In
> > particular, I am curious if anyone has had trouble with them working
> > across the two legs of a 120/240 VAC system, as sometimes occurs with
> > X10 systems?  At the other extreme, has there ever been an incident
> > where a second residence has been able to access the network of the
> > first residence because they were attached to the same pole
> > transformer secondary?
> >
> > If this is the wrong group to post this in, my apologies, but it seems
> > that people that understand X10 problems, and also used Ethernet power
> > line adapters, would also have a good feel for the performance of
> > Ethernet power line adapters and their weaknesses
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