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In article <KIM.89Dec10103234@watsup.waterloo.edu> kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) writes:
:In article <2352@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan)
:writes: 
:   In article <1540@geocub.greco-prog.fr> anthes@geocub.greco-prog.fr
:   (Franklin Anthes) writes: 
:   :
:   :	I'm thinking of seting up amigas in remote locations, up to
:   :several hundred miles away.  [wants to reboot on gurus]
:
:   The only sure fire mehtod I can think of is by powering down and up the
:   Amiga's power from a remote location.  I imagine the telephone controller
:   for the X-10 power system would be the best bet.
:
:This isn't all that bad an idea, except I'd like to point out that the
:BSR X-10 system is also VERY flaky.  Our system at home reacts quite a

You may want to make it more clear that "YOUR" system is flakey (perhaps
as you said; someone else near by has a controller on the same house 
setting).  

The reason is because I've worked closely with two systems for over a year now.
Everything from dimmers, to appliance modules, to radio controlled
remote modules (no experience with the telephone hookup though) and have
NEVER had a spurious ON or OFF.  In no uncertain terms, the
X-10 system as a whole is NOT flakey.  It is quite stable.  The flakiness
may be in another controller or dirty AC.  There actually be
many manufacturers of X-10 modules, I wonder what brand you've had
reliability problems with.  I would imagine the modules from DAK are
cheaper than those from Radio Shack or Sears?  I'm not sure if they are
made by one company (under contracts) or not.

:bit to spurious commands (noise?  someone else has a controller on the
:same house setting?), and the switches often croak after a period
:ranging from days to months.  Not too reliable, esp. if you want to
:avoid having to go to those remote locations.
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:T. Kim Nguyen 				  kim@watsup.waterloo.{edu|cdn}
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:Systems Design Engineering  --  University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Like I said, no problems of any kind in two product-years of testing
in my experience.

Joel