Mark no offense taken. I'm used to hearing these kind of comments. My blog entry was not directed solely at you, or Leviton. All these "competing technologies" tout faster as better, my point was who cares? Engineers do, consumers don't. It actually takes 11 powerline cycles to send an X10 PLC signal and we send number-number, followed by command-command, and since the module almost always responds on the first code it receives, it is usually after number-number, command, i.e., 33 powerline cycles, plus the 3 cycle gap between the number and the command, i.e., over half a second (actually 600 mS). You say people think the system is broken if the light doesn't turn on within 250msec. Yet, no one i.e. no consumer, complains that X10 takes too long to turn on a light!
Yes, I hope to give a talk at the next Connections. My focus however would be on products, not advances in the technology, or our protocol. Even though I could talk about that, consumers don't buy protocols, they buy products.
And as for you restating the 40% as 37% I can only smile. :-) Since X10 is a private company there is no way for you to know what our sales are, and therefore you have nothing to compare Leviton's portion of X10 compatible sales to. :-)
