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Re:Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017) by henryfjordan on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @07:10PM (#19629598)
One time I tried using these. The internet worked fine but connections to other things on my network was very intermittent. I found out that I was switching between my own router and my neighbor's. The signal was traveling out of my house and into my neighbor's over the power lines.

I do not recommend Ethernet over Power any more.

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Re:Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017) by maxsilver on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @08:51PM (#19630130)
> The signal was traveling out of my house and into my neighbor's over the power lines. I do not recommend Ethernet over Power any more.

For what it's worth, you could turn on the built-in encryption within most Powerline adapters. (Usually a button labeled "Security" or similar). Then you can leak anything you want, and still be reasonably safe.

http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/PL1200/202-11566-...

Wi-fi has this exact same problem, with basically the same solution.

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Re:Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017) by sp00ls on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @07:55PM (#19629828)
I don’t understand, what you’re saying doesn’t really make any sense. Were they also using Ethernet over power devices? Even so they typically have a setup process that negotiate the encryption keys between devices in your own home.
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