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High-speed Internet Access: Power Lines For Real

Posted by Hemos on from the plug-in-boot-up-tune-out dept.

securitas writes "ID reports that German utilities started offering high speed Internet access via power lines last month, and Sweden and the Netherlands are not far behind. The companies claim to have resolved problems of interference and line noise. US trials are taking place in secret with Reston VA based PowerLine Technologies. Nortel and Siemens abandoned the technology in 1999 but if this is for real DSL and cable may have a new competitor."

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  1. Not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    First Post!

  2. Yesh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This site has all the details the article lacked.

  3. ahh germany by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I remember when I was travelling in the Rhineland back in the 70's. I was in Stusslsberg, and I went to one of the local clubs there. There was the finest young boys I've ever laid my eyes on. He couldn't have been more then 13 years old, but you could tell by the way he moved that he was already a man. When our eyes first met it was love at first sight. I took him back to my room, and we spent many torrid hours making passionite love. I still remember the way he looked as I rubbed his smooth body, the spread of my hands almost encompessing his entire chest.

    Those were the days...