Remote communication with household appliances

A device (10) with a home center (11) for direct remote communication and / or for remote communication via data nodes (16) with domestic appliances (17, 18, 19, 20, 21), which communicate with differently powerful domestic appliances (17 , 18, 19, 20, 21) without long blockage of data traffic over a home network (9) allows, results when the house center (11) between different high data rates (13, 14) is switchable. As a result, domestic appliances (17, 18, 19, 20, 21) with very different data rates (13, 14) can be addressed via the same home network (9) and the same home central office (11), optionally with intermediate storage of the data to be transmitted in a data node (16 ), which can be read out at a high data rate (14) and at a low data rate (13).