Corinex have the coolest devices
I'm blogging this to all of my blogs, because I'm that excited about it.
Corinex have these amazingly cool devices, which work incredibly well. They plug into your house current and allow you to ship Internet traffic over that. They work by introducing a bit of interference on the AC, to make the waves look Fuzzy when ya look really closely. Then the receiving end demodulates it and tosses out the traffic as traffic again. Here's my favourite product:
The Corinex Powerline Wall Mount Ethernet is a name that's probably longer than the device -- especially if you like big typefaces like me. It's a 'wall wart', like so many of the DC power adapters we see on any toy without wheels, on cell phone charger units or full-featured telephones (Mmm, nortal/aastra 9417CW) in our homes.
Wanna know the setup?
Now, there is the risk that people can buy a corinex device (or something marginally compatible like the failing products by D-Link, Linksys, Belkin, Netgear, Data Fellows and various re-brands like Gateway) and conceivably listen in on your traffic or use your house to send spam. Duplexes, maybe, may unwittingly be sharing internet also, but not apartments. For those who want to keep their data secret from people who happen to roam the neighbourhood at night with laptops and these devices as well, preying on unsuspecting good folk, there's as much encryption available on this thing as most people have in their wireless stuff -- but that most people rarely seem to activate anyway.
So it's not exactly perfectly secure, but anyone crouched outside your house (or inside my apartment) for two hours while they brute-force my key will probably receive a beating before they can happen upon it. The fact that one has to be physically present is a much better barrier, I think, toward invading my LAN, much more difficult than wardriving for the umpteen open WiFi units on my block.
Life is good without all these Mir cables lying about. And it's only gonna get faster. It's already an excellent product for hotels ... and lan parties!
Corinex have these amazingly cool devices, which work incredibly well. They plug into your house current and allow you to ship Internet traffic over that. They work by introducing a bit of interference on the AC, to make the waves look Fuzzy when ya look really closely. Then the receiving end demodulates it and tosses out the traffic as traffic again. Here's my favourite product:
Wanna know the setup?
- buy two or more Corinex WMEs
- go home, pick two rooms and plug them in.
- plug networking cables (cat-3/5/6, you geek) into them and into computers (no, you do not need a cross-over, you geek)
- rejoice.
Now, there is the risk that people can buy a corinex device (or something marginally compatible like the failing products by D-Link, Linksys, Belkin, Netgear, Data Fellows and various re-brands like Gateway) and conceivably listen in on your traffic or use your house to send spam. Duplexes, maybe, may unwittingly be sharing internet also, but not apartments. For those who want to keep their data secret from people who happen to roam the neighbourhood at night with laptops and these devices as well, preying on unsuspecting good folk, there's as much encryption available on this thing as most people have in their wireless stuff -- but that most people rarely seem to activate anyway.
So it's not exactly perfectly secure, but anyone crouched outside your house (or inside my apartment) for two hours while they brute-force my key will probably receive a beating before they can happen upon it. The fact that one has to be physically present is a much better barrier, I think, toward invading my LAN, much more difficult than wardriving for the umpteen open WiFi units on my block.
Life is good without all these Mir cables lying about. And it's only gonna get faster. It's already an excellent product for hotels ... and lan parties!
posted by Westley | 3:48 PM
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