Re: new z-wave gateway

["BruceR" <razrbruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Bill Kearney wrote:
>>> X-10 RF != X-10 powerline.  You conflate to entirely different
>>> technologies.
>>
>> What??!!!!  X-10 clearly operates via both PLC and RF
>
> Ford sells both cars and trucks, yet they're quite different.
> Likewise X-10's RF solution, weak as it is, shares little in common
> with it's powerline garbage, besides the company name.
>
> The only thing that carries X-10 along is that it's cheap.  It
> certainly doesn't work reliably.   Good, fast, cheap, shit X-10 can't
> even muster two of those points.  It's no good and it's slow as hell.
> That it's cheap doesn't do much to redeem it.
>
> It's you that's reaching for straws trying to prop up your misbegotten
> investment in X-10 trash.  Please, spare us the delusions.

Bill, As a user of the XTB-II and XTB products in two homes, I can tell
you that these products totally redifine the reliability issue with X10
PLC products.  With an XTB-II or XTB installed (depending on
application) you can achieve virtually flawless operation equivalent to
UPB (which I tried but found it wasn't as robust as it claimed) or
Insteon (which I also have and it works quite well).  In fact, had the
XTB-II been available before I bought into Insteon I would not have
bothered with it.  X10 is MUCH easier to manage than the newer protocols
and there is a wide array of product choices available.
 I have no axe to grind here, I'm just reporting my experiences.  I have
every hope that new Insteon products - particularly controllers and
software - will soon be available to give me the same capabilities I
have with X10 but, until that time, X10 still rules.