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Security-related question for XAV5001
I intend to use the XAV5001 adapters to link two separate rooms that are on the same circuit.
However, reading through XAV5001's user manual ("Understanding Powerline security", p. 10 of the manual that is available in the Downloads section of the support page), I get to the:
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If you do not set up security on your network, anyone nearby with a Powerline network can potentially use their connection to gain access to your network and information you send over the Internet. This is especially relevant in settings such as apartment buildings, office buildings, dorm rooms, and other more populated areas.
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This sounds a bit disconcerting to me, as I live in a block of flats. The thing is though that each flat (consequently mine as well) has its own electricity line with its own electricity meter. Hence, our power networks inside our flats are all independent with each other. The only part where they meet is further upstream inside the power distribution network of the energy supplier company (probably in a distribution hub somewhere in the wider area where I live).
Given all this, am I at risk of someone from my neighbours or someone else living nearby tapping in my home network using a powerline adapter that will link up to my NETGEAR Powerline sub-network? (assuming of course that I haven't set up security in my powerline adapters)?
However, reading through XAV5001's user manual ("Understanding Powerline security", p. 10 of the manual that is available in the Downloads section of the support page), I get to the:
{
If you do not set up security on your network, anyone nearby with a Powerline network can potentially use their connection to gain access to your network and information you send over the Internet. This is especially relevant in settings such as apartment buildings, office buildings, dorm rooms, and other more populated areas.
}
This sounds a bit disconcerting to me, as I live in a block of flats. The thing is though that each flat (consequently mine as well) has its own electricity line with its own electricity meter. Hence, our power networks inside our flats are all independent with each other. The only part where they meet is further upstream inside the power distribution network of the energy supplier company (probably in a distribution hub somewhere in the wider area where I live).
Given all this, am I at risk of someone from my neighbours or someone else living nearby tapping in my home network using a powerline adapter that will link up to my NETGEAR Powerline sub-network? (assuming of course that I haven't set up security in my powerline adapters)?
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- If you change the encryption key of your units as soon as you've purchased them they cannot gain access to your network (unless they can guess your key, which must be at least 8 characters)
