Gigabit Transfer Rates Over Power Lines?

nomrniceguy writes "Penn State engineers, Pouyan Amirshahi and Mohsen Kavehrad, estimated in a research paper released Wednesday that their system could deliver data at close to one gigabit per second over medium-voltage electrical lines in ideal conditions, with speeds of hundreds of megabits per second available to home users. Their system would uses repeaters placed every one kilometer, (0.62 miles) and requires power lines to have been modified to reduce interference with the data signals. The engineers said their estimates were based on computer models, and that the data speeds available in a real-world version would depend on how many repeaters a power company used."

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more BPL lies

[drwho]

Why is this continually pressed? why do we continue to hear about this crap technology long after it has been shown to be harmful? It will interfere with many radio services, is expensive to implement, won't be cost efective in the rural areas it was touted as being beneficial for, and won't provide performance comparable to existing technologies..well then there's this..gigabit? well, i just don't believe it.