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."

Comments

Re:Western Engineering vs. Chinese Theft

[quarkon]

if you look at their names none of these guys are actually "westerners".

Re:Matsui is not American?

[quarkon]

Does suggesting that not all advancements in technology come from westerners make me a bigot???

One kilometer = 0.62 mile (duh!)

[ricst]

It's a pity the original poster felt a need to tell us that a kilometer was 0.62 mile. Are Americans so unaware of metric units that even slashdotters need to be reminded of the conversion back to English units? With most of the rest of the world using the MKS (metric) system, it's just a shame that Americans have been too stubborn and incapable of adopting it as well.

Re:Proof of concept?

[aventius]

Penn State (or Knibb High) Football RULES!