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Re: powerline ethernet




On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:58 AM, John Hasler wrote:

David Brodbeck writes:
At worst, everyone on the same distribution transformer.  The
transformers should act as pretty effective chokes for high-frequency
signals like this.

I don't think that you can guarantee that no signal will leak through via
capacitive winding to winding coupling.

No guarantees, no. But my experience with carrier-current stuff is you're lucky if it has enough range to work everywhere in *one* building. And this isn't WiFi; a bigger antenna isn't going to help. ;) So in that case you're into a scenario of someone with an oscilloscope noticing the signal and building something custom to amplify and demodulate it. Technically possible, but unlikely unless your network is a really tempting target for some reason.

At any rate, the easy solution is to run OpenVPN on top.


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