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First Canadian High Speed Internet over Power Grid

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shocking-ideas dept.

oO0(MjB)0Oo writes "Sault Ste. Marie, a northern Ontario town, is going to be the first installation of BPL (Broadband Power Line technology) in Canada. As reported in the Toronto Star, wireless access points will be set up along medium-voltage power lines, providing roaming capability throughout the city to all users."

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  1. What about do it yourself? by emptybody · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Couldn't a private individual use their own gear to run their own ISP over PowerLines?

    What prevents this?

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  2. Similar to ESB in Ireland then... by zoney_ie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here in Ireland, the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) - our State electricity company, is setting up something similar. They have a fibre ring following the trunk electricity routes - it's just fibre piggy-backed on their existing infrastructure.

    I'm just amazed they haven't done this ages ago - it puts them at a huge advantage to those who have to dig up stuff and lay fibre from scratch.

    Not sure what ESBs plan is to connect this main telecomms artery to anything useful...

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