Re: Security of mains ethernet adapters?

["domdevitto" <dom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Presumably range varies with vendor and model - what have you got?
Does anyone else have any experience to share?


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Richard" <rich_lists@...> wrote:
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> Wow, I cant even get mine to work between circuits from the same box
> reliably.
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> There is that token effort of encryption that they offer but I don't
think
> its had enough interest to reveal its weaknesses rather then it
actually
> providing any security.
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
> domdevitto
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 11:52 PM
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Security of mains ethernet adapters?
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> http://blogs.sun.com/chrisg/entry/ethernet_over_mains
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> implies that hopping through the fusebox, to the meter, back up to
> another fusebox causes a big reduction in signaling rate (from 85 mbps
> to 13 mbps) - but does work.
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> He is also a bit worried about security - though he thinks that the
> degradation from fusebox-fusebox within his own twin-fusebox house
> probably means that data won't leak between two separate properties.
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> This would be a *very* interesting community 'mesh' network though!
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> Dom
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
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Vargster
> <vargster@> wrote:
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> > I'm thinking about getting a pair of these 'ethernet over the
main
> wiring'
> > adapters to push the house lan out to corner of the house I can't
> get cat5
> > to (I know, I know) and the wireless seems to have a dead spot
there
> too.
> >
> > My only problem (apart from the cost of the things) is the
lingering
> doubt
> > over security, I've had a google and various pages talk about
> hacking into
> > them, and some mention that it has to be on the same ring main
etc, that
> > data can't travel across the meter etc.
> >
> > I just wondered if anyone had any experience/thoughts/knowledge
on the
> > subject?
> >
> > Lee
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