On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 19:24:17 -0800, mike wrote:

On 11/24/2013 3:31 PM, William Sommerwerck wrote:
X10 has been around 35 years. It's cheap, and it works.

I'd agree, BUT.
I buy the stuff dirt cheap at garage sales.
Works well enough, but it's really old technology.
Susceptible to noise.
Needs help bridging phases of the line.

If I were gonna buy it at retail prices, I think
I'd investigate some of the newer lines.

IME, the "newer lines" are a lot more expensive and no more reliable
(if that good).