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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."
But does it run Linux?
It's all well and good until your streaming copy of Blondes, Brunettes, and My Head (and your 'Me' time) get interrupted by an unlucky squirrel.
Let me guess; the modification is to glue a fibre-optic cable onto it.
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
Though Amirshahi did mention that in order to provide anything faster then modem speeds to actual home users would require lowering the mean temperature of the earth to near absolute zero.
Actually, given the negligable shielding on power lines- their scheme would radiate like crazy and pretty much *would* be gigabit wifi :-)
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"Your computer turns off when the power gets disconnected? How quaint...
It does. Unfortunately when i plugged in my box, the Tux on my wallpaper looked scorched for some reason. I still can't understand why... :-?
Nicolai Tesla demonstrated electrical power could be sent wirelessly, so why bother with all the equipment? Hell, just piggyback broadband on wireless power transmission! No wires, no repeaters every km, no grid to break down -- just one huge global RF field for porn and p2p for all! I want to instantaneously download everything into my iMac from a bolt of lightning from the sky... yeah, now THAT'S the internet I want...
Too bad we'd all have to walk around with tinfoil caps.
Well, if your bull jumps the fence into a neighboring pasture, will its packets be considered spoofed or dropped?
Guess you will have to watch out for that high latency johnson grass.
-William
God is everything science has yet to explain.
My system could deliver data at close to one gigabit per second over barbed wire in ideal conditions, with speeds of hundreds of megabits per second available to home users. My system requires barbed wire to have been modified to reduce interference with the data signals.
for high voltage over Ethernet.
Lars T.
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What? Somebody on /. is using the word 'bandwidth' in its original and correct meaning? Unpossible!
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