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Eng-Tips users with shocking hair

Eng-Tips users with shocking hair

RE: Eng-Tips users with shocking hair

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

RE: Eng-Tips users with shocking hair

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

RE: Eng-Tips users with shocking hair

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.

RE: Eng-Tips users with shocking hair

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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RE: Eng-Tips users with shocking hair

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.

RE: Eng-Tips users with shocking hair

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

RE: Eng-Tips users with shocking hair

As Slugger926 pointed out, this has been around for a while. I had some friends who went to Intellon (www.intellon.com) quite a few years back.

RE: Eng-Tips users with shocking hair

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.

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