electric line broadband

http://www.cinergy.com/News/default_cor ... ews_id=420

this is already implemented in cincinatti. I can't wait till it hits us in louisville. Apparently it will be there next phase.

I can't tell you how many people in my apartment complex are getting broadband lately. My bandwith drops a little each week it seems.

plus I am basically paying 120 dollars a month for cable (with tv and phone though)

even better, supposedly it will have equal up and down stream

thats crazy


please please come to the UK

I can't wait till it comes here, should be very soon

I figured it was only a matter of time, after I read something about sharing a home network connection through power outlets.

at the time I was thinking, oh boy, If I had the bandwidth I could sell it to the neighbors.

but I wouldn't do that..lol

It is pretty amazing, I am just wondering how reliable it will be

I think Time Warner Cable is trying to do this down in North Carolina, I may be wrong though. Sounds pretty sweet until a lightning storm comes and takes out a power grid, maybe you can buy an add-on generator to keep your connection alive during such times.

well, I know what you mean. But If my power got knocked off, my cable modem wouldn't work anyway

I wonder how it works? It can't just have a + and a -? Can it? Maybe if it converts all of the binary 1's to + and 0's to - somhow....wierd.

I hope it get's here soon.

I was searching around and found this link:

http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/

It seems that radio amateurs have some issues with BPL.

I am not sure exactly how it works truce, I guess the same way that a cable connection would work.

That is really interesting jrzy, this looks like it could basically break bpl. The fcc doesn't play when it comes around to breaking signals and stuff. I guess Insight wins again.....

That's to bad about the interference and stuff.....stupid amateur radio nerds.....they need to get AIM or ICQ...lol.

no doubt, I understand about the hobby thing and all. But who uses it anymore as a prime means of communication?

I hope they find a solution to this problem or some kind of compromise.

Here's another article that relates:


Full article

yikes, might as well count this one out

I'm not sure. I'm trying to find some pro-bpl articles or ones that might debunk the anti-bpl. So far, nothing. Problems like this have a tendancy to be exaggerated by people who are dead set against them. It doesn't look promising, however.

I don't understand why the radio waves are needed? Can somebody help my out here?

If they are'nt needed, then why not just put some kind of casing that will stop the waves?

I think it is the electric lines themselves that will emmit the waves. I am sure they could reduce the EMI if they coated every wire with something, but that is impossible financially, and realistically to replace all power lines everywhere.

I was talking with a freind who works at a major fiber optic manufacturer, and he basically told me that the project is doomed (he had to do extensive research about his competition). I tend to agree with him, although I am sure the subject still made him a bit nervous.

As far as how those waves are produced from the lines, I haven't the slightest idea, but It does make sense. Power lines already emit radio waves already.