Internet via the Power Grid, Again

Damon Campagna writes "This NYT article, Internet via the Power Grid: New Interest in Obvious Idea says the FCC is looking into power-line networking again. I thought this was pretty much debunked a couple years ago?"

Comments

Re:Redundant

[nmg]

And you're all fucking loony.

Re:Redundant

[Ranger Rick]

So what you're saying is, "I built/bought a house in an area that is clearly behind the technology curve infrastructure-wise, but I want it I want it I want it, and I'm not willing to pay extra even though it costs X times as much to bring it to my area."

Sure, I bet many people think it would be nice to have things up-to-date in rural areas, but guess what: it won't ever happen that way. That's one of the things you signed on for when you decided to live away from a population center.

Power companies != good broadband operators

[llamafresh]

The only thing I find missing in this discussion is that the FCC and local power companies have enough problems taming the unintentional radiation from their equipment, without introducing intentional broadband radiation! Remember that those miles and miles of power lines make reeeally good antennas! The thought of possibly wiping out military, amateur, and fixed service HF allocations trying to run broadband over a broken power grid should make everyone think several times about "whether-we-really-should-be-doing-this."

Just for the record, our local mono^H^H^H^Hutility has let problems go for years before finally finding and addressing them: Link Here to Cinergy/WLW story

At least this time the problem was resolved. Multiply this by hundreds of power companies and you should see we *might* have a problem...

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