{"id":2950,"date":"2010-04-06T11:14:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2010-04-06T11:14:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:14:58","slug":"should-any-older-insteon-firmware-version-units-be-discarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/should-any-older-insteon-firmware-version-units-be-discarded\/","title":{"rendered":"Should any older [Insteon] firmware version units  be discarded?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; font-size: 12px;\">I have some Insteon units that are a few years old. Even though they work could older firmware versions cause the system to be slower or interfere with normal operation? I thought I heard some people having concerns with having older units in their system.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Generally speaking, the Smarthome Insteon units, have been designed to be backward compatible. \u00c2\u00a0So, having older devices should not hamper the faster speeds of the newer modules.<\/p>\n<p>Switching from a 2414U, to a 2413U, saw a dramatic speed increase with all of my older devices, and the newer dual-band modules are even faster with the 2413U than the older devices&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now, you may want to phase out some of your older devices, simply to either bring in the newer technology, or to aid in eliminating dead-zones&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0For example, replacing an old lamplinc, with a dual-band lamplinc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s completely voluntary, and you might even be able to sell your older units to someone that is looking for inexpensive units&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have some Insteon units that are a few years old. Even though they work could older firmware versions cause the system to be slower or interfere with normal operation? I thought I heard some people having concerns with having older units in their system. Generally speaking, the Smarthome Insteon units, have been designed to <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/should-any-older-insteon-firmware-version-units-be-discarded\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[68,4],"tags":[162,97,70,212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->