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Broadband Over Power Lines vs. Radio Relayers

Posted by timothy on from the breaking-too-many-eggs-perhaps dept.

amaiman writes "Recently, broadband Internet access has been increasing around the country. These broadband signals, while providing Internet access to remote communities that would normally not be able to receive broadband, are causing enormous interference to the radio spectrum. This article details some of the problems, and a video available on the American Radio Relay League's (ARRL) site shows exactly how much interference the broadband power lines can cause. Detailed information is also available on the ARRL site."

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  1. This is so old, it should be the other way around by CrystalFalcon · · Score: 5, Funny

    The latest RFC don't deal with broadband over power lines any more. It's been tried, and power companies have folded over this bet.

    My own power company gave up and found it more efficient to simply lay TCP/IP fiber along the new power lines instead.

    No, the new thing is not TCP/IP over electricity lines, but electricity over TCP/IP lines, as detailed in RFC3251.