[ale] PowerLine Networks

[Matt Rideout]

I used to use the 14Mbps generation of these that were limited to 56-bit 
DES. Overall reliability is like wireless. It all depends on how your 
house is wired, and how much wiring two nodes have to traverse to talk 
to each other.

If your neighbor is on the same side of the transformer as you, then 
you're effectively on the same network segment. Otherwise, you're not.

IMO, you should look at datalink layer encryption as just one layer of 
your network's security. AES is solid, so I suspect that the weak link 
there will be the integrity of the key that's selected. I would treat 
that network as only slightly more trustworthy than a WPA2 wireless 
network. Look to higher layers to provide additional security.

Scott Castaline wrote, On 09/11/2009 06:07 PM:
> I know that in the past this has come up in discussion. I was wondering 
> if anyone has checked these out yet? 
> http://www.shoplinksys.com/Powerline_stcVVcatId543877VVviewcat.htm
>
> Any opinions? How secure is this technology? Could a neighbor who 
> happens to have an adapter be able to "see" my home network? Is 128bit 
> AES enough encryption now a days?
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