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[LUG] re homeplugs - VIP

 

I have just found out that our home network has been hijacked by a neighbour, using a homeplug. We used homeplugs because we understood that this was impossible - that signals would not get past the meter. This is not true and we have tested it by trying it out at our neighbours, the other side.

We only found out that it was happening because we went away and left the internet all on - when we got back we had a warning email from our ISP that we were about to exceeed our monthly download limit. Someone had download nearly 2 gb in 2 days !

We are going to change over to a wireless router with encryption and a firewall but, for now have gone hard wired.

I just wanted to warn all of you, in case you are using these.

regards

Viv
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