On 18/07/2014 12:07, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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I'm not sure of the exact details, but they seem to be limited to one
ring, and they won't work past an RCD. Either way they are paired by
encryption, so not casually hackable.

Be useless for my purpose then since I have one ring per floor. And the
router is on the ground floor one. The Wi-Fi reception problem on the top
floor.


My Devolo equivalents re definitely ok across more than one ring (no
RCDs on the relevant consumer unit), and I'm pretty sure I've tested
them across CUs (I've got 3 - the other two of which *have* got RCDs!)

But everything apparently needs to be on the same meter.

They have quite good encryption - and default pass-phrases which would
take a long time to guess, even if automated. [An apparently random
string of 16 letters - so an automated system would need up to 16^26
attempts - about 2 x 10^31 - and even more if it didn't know the length
of the pass-phrase or the fact that they're all alpha caps].
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Cheers,
Roger
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