Talk:HomePlug

Contradiction
The HomePlug AV section says, "HomePlug AV devices are required to coexist, and optionally to interoperate, with HomePlug 1.0 devices." The Interoperability section says, "HomePlug 1.0 devices do not interoperate with HomePlug AV devices." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.58.241.135 (talk) 17:23, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Need balanced point of view
Right now it seems to mix propaganda from the marketing org with complaints from a disgruntled user. Need to rewrite into neutral language throughout. For starters, this whole section seems an uncited rant (although probably does have some basis in fact):
 * The HomePlug Powerline Alliance is a marketing body that works tirelessly to spin the market's views of its technologies, many times stretching the truth to the breaking point and beyond. However, facts speak for themselves.


 * First, HomePlug does not create standards, they create proprietary specifications. The history of how HomePlug was able to, through force of the number of members attending and voting, get HP AV voted in as one of the two distinct technologies codified in IEEE 1901 is public information. While HomePlug claims it was a great achievement to get HP AV into the standard, its inclusion in the standard was the results of strength of voting numbers and nothing else. HP AV was not voted into 1901 due to any technologoical advantage or uniqueness, just votes.


 * HomePlug claims that Green PHY is a "profile" of IEEE 1901. However, the term "profile" is not used in 1901. The authorization for the 1901 standard effort was that the 1901 work group define technology that worked over powerline and that it could achieve 100 Mbps. Green PHY achieves 10 Mbps at best. It is out of its league when it comes to 1901 and such claims. Completely false to spin Green PHY as a standardized technology. It isn't.


 * The HomePlug Powerline Alliance has worked on portraying the various HomePlug specifications as a 'family,' they are not. There is little relationship between HP Command & Control, HP 1.x, and HP AV. No interoperability and minimal compatibility/coexistence. However, these three technologies do have a very important thing in common... their name "HomePlug" and so HomePlug Powerline Alliance has been able to claim their units shipped numbers under the "HomePlug technology" heading, and so hide the fact that HP AV has had low numbers of units shipped to date.

I can work on this but it will take time. W Nowicki (talk) 21:52, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

"Command and Control" deprecated by "Green PHY"
I can find no such original information specified in the citations indicating that Command and Control is deprecated by Green PHY. Further, I'm not even sure if C&C and GP can coexist or inter-operate. Can the original author provide the citation for that claim? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.174.87.92 (talk) 17:41, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree that the citations don't support this statement; I tagged it cn. Lambtron (talk) 18:14, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

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Proposed merge of Powerline adapters into HomePlug
Essentially describing the same set of devices – robertsky (talk) 16:43, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Proposed merge of HomePlug Powerline Alliance into HomePlug
Also goes into detail on the HomePlug Powerline Alliance and covers a much broader scope. The HomePlug Powerline Alliance article is not very well referenced and does not contain much more information than the HomePlug page. - nathanielcwm (talk) 13:53, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Support - None of the sources cited at HomePlug Powerline Alliance demonstrate independent notability of the organization. ~Kvng (talk) 13:45, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 17:57, 13 July 2024 (UTC)