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Djpuk 7th September 2006, 19:08

To be secure you will need to enable the encryption.
In my experience it does not add any delay so there is no real good reason not to enable it.
I have certainly been using it since day one.
Hope that helps?

Libero 12th September 2006, 10:38

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Originally Posted by Djpuk
To be secure you will need to enable the encryption.
In my experience it does not add any delay so there is no real good reason not to enable it.
I have certainly been using it since day one.
Hope that helps?

Hi Djpuk,
Many thanks for your answer. I think I'll enable the encryption as suggested, but I was also hoping to understand what was meant by inherent security (since there's an electricity meter etc...).

Anyways, i'm very happy with the 3 plugs I have and am enjoying the set up!

Djpuk 13th September 2006, 18:31

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Originally Posted by Libero
Hi Djpuk,
Many thanks for your answer. I think I'll enable the encryption as suggested, but I was also hoping to understand what was meant by inherent security (since there's an electricity meter etc...).

Anyways, i'm very happy with the 3 plugs I have and am enjoying the set up!

Sorry Libero I must have missed what you were asking.
Obviously I did not write the review but my guess would be that it is inherently more secure than wireless in that a wireless signal is available to anybody in range of your access point whereas the signal over power is only available to anybody directly connected to the same copper power cable that you are, thus limiting the amount of potential wrong doers to your immediate neighbours rather than somebody war driving searching out access points.
And of course your neighbours would have to be running the same flavour of homeplug that you are.
I hope that is what you were asking?

Libero 14th September 2006, 11:41

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Originally Posted by Djpuk
Sorry Libero I must have missed what you were asking.
Obviously I did not write the review but my guess would be that it is inherently more secure than wireless in that a wireless signal is available to anybody in range of your access point whereas the signal over power is only available to anybody directly connected to the same copper power cable that you are, thus limiting the amount of potential wrong doers to your immediate neighbours rather than somebody war driving searching out access points.
And of course your neighbours would have to be running the same flavour of homeplug that you are.
I hope that is what you were asking?

Hi Djpuk,

That pretty much answers my question. Many thanks for help! ;)

Gotta say, I'm very pleased with the transfers i'm getting from these plugs!

Gushy 9th February 2007, 19:16

Anyone know how to turn the encryption off on these things? I just got a devolo starter kit and turned the encryption on, but I want to see if I get improved performance with it off.

I'd be interested to know what speeds people are getting; I bought these to replace two wireless routers in repeater mode (54g) and the devolo infomer tool says they are synced at 74Mb/s - not bad given they have a max of 85Mb/s. However when I transfer files I'm only seeing 14Mb/s :(

Djpuk 16th February 2007, 11:57

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Originally Posted by Gushy
Anyone know how to turn the encryption off on these things? I just got a devolo starter kit and turned the encryption on, but I want to see if I get improved performance with it off.

I'd be interested to know what speeds people are getting; I bought these to replace two wireless routers in repeater mode (54g) and the devolo infomer tool says they are synced at 74Mb/s - not bad given they have a max of 85Mb/s. However when I transfer files I'm only seeing 14Mb/s :(

Not sure on those particular ones how to turn it off, sounds obvious but when you turned it on was there not a reverse option there?

The total throughput will rely heavily on the cable you are running over, I have tried with various outlets in my place and some get amazing speed between to plug points and others not so hot, I guess some may be original wiring and some may be where the wiring has been extended using cheaper copper but that is just a guess.

Gushy 16th February 2007, 18:37

no option to turn it off unfortunately, further investigation seems to suggest that it's always on, and ships with a default encryption key/password.

I figured speed is something to do with the quality of my wiring, but I just assumed that if it said it was connected at 74mb/s that the transfer wouldn't be quite so much slower.

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