[Stuart]

Originally Posted by toonlight

Oh Stuart, I forget you where at my side......on times

Well plug in & play method of a Ethernet lead is much simpler as it has two ends, each in the other than fiddling around with channel settings & band channels as you get with wireless if you do get it to work. There different ways to create a wired network so one way is have few ethernet leads in places but ain't carpets/underlay made in there way to allow you bury all these lead under them if you have restrictions in a room? (direction/layout/to<>from router) Think out side the box not just on walls or home plugs.

The thing is ,powerline networking is not secure. Even assuming your consumer box does a good job of filtering the data before it gets out onto the power cable in the street (which isn't, apparently, a given), you still have the problem of it travelling along 10s of metres of mains cable that is not RF shielded inside the house.

Someone with a decent HAM radio could probably pick up the signal straight from the cable.

You can encrypt Powerline comms, but this means it's as secure as Wireless.

The other things you suggest all take time. I wasn't talking about necessarily putting sockets in each room (although in the long term, this is actually better).

So you would really trust a neighbour, with your unsecured wireless connection? even if you where put in the dock (court) for computer offences under the "Millennium act" even if you didn't do anything. Remember the account holder is fully legally accountable to whatever passes over your network illegal or legal in a court of law. So meaning a long criminal record for yourself, trusting your neighbour/s & alike who comes passed.

Depends where you live. My aunt lives on a private road, and only has three neighbours within 100 metres. All of whom she apparently knows well and trusts. Other people rarely pass within 100 metres of the house, so, yes, she would probably be quite safe with an unsecured wireless network.

I, however, live in a road where, while the road itself is quiet, and I trust my neighbours, my house backs on to a carpark, so if I leave my wireless unsecured, I am asking for potentially illegal users. Hence I secure it.

Just passing on a point/view nothing more than that

Nice to speak to you sir Stuart

toonlight

You too.