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Japanese Firms Claim 170Mb/s Service Via Powerline
valdean writes "Sony, Mitsubishi, and Panasonic have created and launched a new technology to transport Internet and media signals around the home via the electricity network at speeds 3x that of Wi-Fi. It's even fast enough for HDTV. The introduction is only dependent on government authorization."
Sir, did you read the article? This is for your LAN, not for broadband to the home.
I want a new world. I think this one is broken.
It's Yahoo. I doubt they can't survive a slashdotting.
This isn't the same ol' "Broadband over Powerlines" that we've seen before. We're not talking about an ISP service here. It's a local home network, like a wireless hub. You'd still need to provide internet access. Plug your net connection into one socket, and your terminal into any available outlet in your home, et voila: Internet access anywhere in your home an outlet exists. No worries about walls blocking the signal. The obvious downside to this being, you have to be leashed to something to maintain your access; provided they don't make it wireless for "the last foot". Of course, that would nulify much of the usefullness of such a network.
I love reading stuff like this.
All I can think of is the bosses of our local telecomms incumbent reading this, instantly loosing control of their bowels, the splash of the explosion showering their faithful lieutenants in gooey excrement.
I'm in New Zealand. We pay $70/month for 2mb down 196K up. Its sketchy at best as interleaving pushes pings to about 70-90ms. No unbundling of the LL, and a government that takes it like the Goatse guy from the incumbent, better service is a far off dream.
Please, dear jesus, let alternatives like BB over powerlines work.
In post Patriot Act America, the library books scan you.
i think the reason they're comparing this to wifi is that people use wifi so they don't have to run wires. your home is already wired for electricity in most cases all over the house, but wiring it (cleanly and nicely with a wall plug) for gigabit ethernet is going to cost you.
maybe, just maybe, you might want to read the article next time before you go on a rant. this technology has nothing to do with broadband over powerlines. this works over the premise wiring in your home or building.
-Lod
Now if you could have a bypass, with a rather large resistor to cut back the outside voltage, then we might have something.
Actually, they are using bypass capacitors for BPL.
--fatboy
the /. headline is misleading. It's a LAN solution, not a broadband Internet service. The word "service" should not appear in the title.