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Old 12-26-2007, 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by VW View Post
Well thats not 100% true. Most of the time homeplug wont even make it past your 200A main, and it certainly wont make it through your distribution transfomer (look up isolation transformer as it will act the same), so worst case scenario is your only sharing with those on your transfomer. Having said that I would buy a cheap buffalo router($50), slap DDWRT on there and run it in bridged mode.
Your absolutely right, I was making the point that AC Homeplug devices are neither as quality or secure as people would make them out to be.

People want to say "they are so great, no issues" yet they dont fully understand the potential drawbacks and device limitations.

That Linux DDWRT firmware rocks. I am using different versions of it at a couple different locations, on 2 different linksys routers. FYI my vote for Wireless AcessPoint/Bridge - Apple Airport Extreme. I recently threw one of these on my home office network, great device (although very limited firewall, not recommended as a primary device).
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