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RE: Coax wiring. MoCA between neighbors.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Horstman)
Wed Jun 10 16:16:54 2009

From: Justin Horstman <jhorstman@adknowledge.com>
To: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>, Dongsu Han <dongsu.han@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:16:36 -0500
In-Reply-To: <51A0C81B-194B-471E-A0F6-9CF2C5B8AF02@somewhere.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

I recall an Article that talked about this and found it quickly...

http://www.slate.com/id/2167389

has some links and info you might find useful

~J


-----Original Message-----
From: Kee Hinckley [mailto:nazgul@somewhere.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:41 PM
To: Dongsu Han
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Coax wiring. MoCA between neighbors.

On Jun 10, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Dongsu Han wrote:
> I'm also trying to find out whether my neighbors would be able to =20
> overhear the MoCA signal from my apartment.  Anyone knows the answer?

I can't speak to what they are *supposed* to do, but my experience is =20
that things can be overheard. Last summer I discovered that my Comcast =20
cable had two premium digital channels I hadn't ordered. One was =20
showing soft porn, and while I was sitting there pondering this, it =20
began to fast forward. Not surprisingly, it was fast forwarding over =20
the boring parts and then watching the naughty bits at normal speed. I =20
can only assume that one of the neighboring houses has video-on-demand.



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