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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 22:26:15 +0100
From: Bob Dunlop <bob.dunlop@xyzzy.org.uk>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@transvirtual.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: HomePlug support?
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On Thu, Apr  4,  Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Apr 04, 2002  10:12 -0800, James Simmons wrote:
> > Anyone working on HomePlug support?

As someone else has already responded.  Closed source standard so I'd guess
unlikely to become a true standard.  Seen many variations before and they've
all crashed and burned.  Whatever happened to the NorWEB field trial ?

> Hmm, I wonder if I will be able to run tcpdump from my electrical outlet
> and listen to my neighbour's network traffic, and take over their X10
> appliance controls ;-).

More interesting could you hack into the protocol for reading the electricty
meter remotely ?  Spoof the meter and save a fortune in power bills!
Worked nextdoor to a remote meter company once and it was a problem they
took very seriously.

Still puzzled by the European political standardisation of the power supply.
Politics says 230V yet my AVO still reads 240V RMS in the UK and 220V in
Germany ?  Still it also says 50Hz and I'd swear I only get 49 and a glitch.

-- 
        Bob Dunlop
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