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Broadband via Power Cables trials in Scotland

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lookit-all-them-wires-in-there dept.

Wacko writes "Scottish Hydro-Electric have started a trial of Broadband internet access via power lines. Just plug the modem into any power point in your house, with no need for additional lines into the house, and reasonably priced too. Details are a bit scketchy right now but interesting to see how the trial goes."

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  1. Hope for hillbillies by Mr+Guy · · Score: 4, Funny

    People on dial ups in rural America are watching and praying.

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  2. Sounds like a god-send by skin_job · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder how much more viable this is over existing implementations in the us. I remember waiting for over a year for cable because local fiber lines rendered DSL impossible for my apartment. To my dismay, once cable became available in Dallas, most apartment complexes had already been talked into restricting internet access to dial-up of DirectTV internet access.

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  3. Lightning fast by subspacemsg · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is going to give "lightning fast internet" a new meaning.

  4. Only good for 99.9% of people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What about those people who don't have electricity? I mean, I feel really left out by all these schemes that are advertised as being "available to everybody". Honestly, I have a gas computer, and it's really annoying to be marginalised like this.

  5. Hmmm... by T3kno · · Score: 2, Funny

    6 outlet power strip + 6 modems + 1 BSD box + 6 NIC's == DS3?

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  6. Downtime? by evilviper · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, I can just plug the reciever into my UPS and never have any internet downtime.

    Oh, wait...

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  7. One problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I always like to lick the live leads of the internet connection to make sure I have a good signal.
    Will this new fangled electrical internet scheme prevent me from doing that?

    1. Re:One problem by Oliver+Wendell+Jones · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nope. You can do it. Once.

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  8. Similar faliure by Kristoffor · · Score: 3, Funny

    They tried a similar thing in my hometown of Hydroshock, WA. However the combined water/power delivery proved to often be lethal to customers. Also tests concerning combined natural gas and medicinal oxygen delivery were discontinued due to "less than ideal preliminary results".

  9. Todays Phrase by Winnipenguin · · Score: 1, Funny

    Timmy! Get your toothbrush out of that power outlet immediately!!! Stop messing with Daddy's downloads.

    Todays phrase: ParaSIGtic Capacitance

  10. Hot technology by return+42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like a powerful idea with a lot of potential. Could transform the online world. Hope these reports are well grounded.

    1. Re:Hot technology by IIH · · Score: 4, Funny
      Sounds like a powerful idea with a lot of potential. Could transform the online world. Hope these reports are well grounded.



      It has to be in Scotland, of course, the only nation that can talk directly to modems, Ach, eeeeiiiieee....

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  11. Ouch, that hertz by RobertNotBob · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually to be correct, that Hertz.

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