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Earthlink Invests In Broadband Over Power Lines

Posted by timothy on from the keep-your-jacks-straight-please dept.

prostoalex writes "Earthlink dedicated $500,000 to delivering broadband connections over power lines by launching a test drive of the technology with Progress Energy in North Carolina. 500 homes involved in the projects can sign up for promotional pricing of $20/month, which after 3 months will be changed to $50/month. No word on bandwidth provided, but Ambient Corp., which provides technology for the project and accpeted EarthLink investment, claims data rates exceeding 10 Mpbs."

12 of 308 comments (clear)

  1. ouch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    electrical internet is too dangerous for kids

  2. In the projects? by Larry+David · · Score: 4, Funny

    500 homes involved in the projects can sign up for promotional pricing of $20/month, which after 3 months will be changed to $50/month.

    Yo man, here in the projects we can't even afford $10 for groceries, and yo want us to shell out $50 a month on broadband? I don think this is gunna fly, man!

  3. Didn't we just hear about how dangerous this is? by paroneayea · · Score: 5, Funny

    Like how the combination of power lines and ethernet was supposed to grow cancerous tumors out of your eye sockets that develop into tentacles that molest japanese schoolgirls? I'm pretty sure there was just a story about that on slashdot just a bit ago.

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  4. Mpbs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mega promotional bull shit?

  5. Tinfoil Hat^WSteel Helmet Time by sirReal.83. · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe I'm paranoid, or maybe I just read an article about certain magnetic fields damaging brain cell DNA. I don't remember though, because I just shaved with an electric razor. Damnit. Seriously, can we just get over this and invest in some Fiber to the Curb (FFTC) or Fiber to the Home (FTTH)?

  6. Not as cool as AOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They've been advertising some new broadband over automobile solution that looked pretty fast.

  7. Re:Won't the internet just go *down* more? by gricholson75 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Oh, whoa is me.

    Keanu is that you?
  8. Mpbs? by mr_jim83 · · Score: 5, Funny

    exceeding 10 Mpbs.

    For when you need 10 Million PBS stations.

  9. Re:just one pipe by taped2thedesk · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm hoping for power over cable line. The cable company isn't screwing me enough as it is.

  10. Hey! by psyconaut · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why does my o'scope show that all my AC power is now 10 million cycles second rather than 60?! ;-)

    -psy

  11. Re:Audiophile rant by lurker412 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, I'm sure that the folks who sell cables for $500 a foot will come to the rescue with $15000 power filters. Nothing but the best, right?

  12. Re:Interference problems... by SWTP_OS9 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The only shilding that will work on this is to encase the power lines in a heavy braded material.... Oops! Thats the defition for coax!