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[JAE]

Check out this new potential avenue for hooking up to the internet.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050929/D8CTUA3O7.html

Seems like we'd have a potential for very "electric" websites!

 

[Slugger926]

This has been around for 10 years now. It hasn't hit the market yet.

 

[zdas04]

About 12 years ago the Nielson polling people were using a similar technology to let their box call home from locations away from phone jacks. I watched it one night and it downloaded a day's logs in about 3 seconds.

If they could handle a voice analog signal that well that long ago, digital broadband doesn't seem like much of a stretch. Bring it on.

David

 

[rb1957]

yeah, there are several flavours, like HomeNet, pHA seems to ring a (distant) bell. you can use existing power wiring or phone wiring as intranet cables.

 

[rb1957]

try ...

http://www.homenethelp.com/network/phoneline.asp

 

[MadMango]

This is called BPL for Broadband Over Powerlines. Meant mostly for rural areas, but I see it exploding in urban as well. It may just take a few more years while the cable and phone companies go to court to protect their investments (and profits) from the power companies.

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[arunmrao]

This technology is already in vogue in India. HV lines are being used for dat transmission and telephony. Power utility staff are using this technology especially in difficult terrains and remote areas where communication is a problem. But a commercial application of this I am yet to come across.

 

[SomeYahoo]

The good, the bad, and the ugly are discussed here: thread248-106689

 

[Comcokid]

As Slugger926 pointed out, this has been around for a while. I had some friends who went to Intellon (

http://www.intellon.com)

quite a few years back.

 

[rb1957]

i hadn't thought of it as an internet device, but more as a home intranet, a means for sharing a cable access instead of wired or wireless networks.