homeplug

[Ken Moffat]

A. Khattri wrote:

>On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Ken Moffat wrote:
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>>I have wondered why it is not more popular, but haven't tried it to see
>>what drawbacks there might be. Nothing gets past the transformer, so
>>it's secure to your home, at least in a house, not sure about a condo or
>>apartment. It seems like an inexpensive way to have a home net.
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>This has been around for long time now.
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>But its not cheap - example: the Netgear adapters are $70 and you need
>two, one for each end so you will need one for your switch/router and then
>one per device you want to connect.
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>Maybe prices have dropped now.
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Am I wrong about security being good? I read that a while ago, and it
made sense, but I just realized I've been hearing one side of someones
phone or radio conversations through my pc's speakers. (Not loud enough
to understand, but to just make out a few words now and then amongst the
scratch. Odd)

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ken