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Broadband Over Gas Lines — a Pipe Dream?
prostoalex writes, "USA Today says we might see some progress in broadband over gas pipes, as startup Nethercomm (warning: Flash site) is working on the technology to deliver broadband Internet over this medium using ultrawideband radio. According to the article: 'Broadband in Gas would require installation of an ultrawideband transmitter that's linked to an Internet backbone... at a gas company's network hub. A receiver would be placed at a customer's gas meter. Build-out costs are about $200 per household, Nethercomm says. By contrast, broadband over power lines costs about $600 per household, while phone and cable TV networks each cost well over $1,000 per home to build.'" The article ends on a downbeat note. The upcoming trials that Nethercomm touts are difficult to confirm: "We're intrigued by the technology, but we never got that far in our discussions," says a gas company spokeswoman. And the ultrawideband chip company that had been working with Nethercomm, Freescale Semiconductor, has turned its attention to other projects.
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I always said you could send the internets down tubes. Always.
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"We're intrigued by the technology, but we never got that far in our discussions," says a gas company spokeswoman.
"...because everyone kept making jokes about explosive growth at the meetings", she said with a sigh.
Please help metamoderate.
If only this technology had been introduced in 2000 -- Enron could have announced a deal for Broadband Over Gas, immediately booked anticipated profits of $47 billion, and been saved from bankruptcy. Or maybe not.
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The propane tank should work. Just fill it up with internets when it is being refueled. Sure, the ping times aren't quite as good as gas pipes, but overall bandwidth is great.
Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. And you don't want to get any on you.
But you know, the growth of this new technology could be explosive.
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But you know, the growth of this new technology could be explosive.
But imagine servicing it... it could give a pro pain.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Meh, they'll have years to figure out to do that; this thing is vapourware of the highest order.
Expect Duke Nukem Forever to be the first thing I download ^^
When the posters fear their moderators, there is tyranny; when the moderators fears the posters, there is liberty.
In the beginning God created a truck. AOLers dumped things like "me too" on this truck, but the truck became full of stupid, so on the second day God created tubes. Only the telcos and the cablecos liked the tubes, and they used them to hurt the consumers, so on the third day God created the Web. Congressmen never noticed. On the fourth day God decided to create pipes just to screw with people. And behold, He saw that it was funny.
TCP/IP over Bongo Drums
I am the unwilling control for my Origin.
But what happens when they get undercut by broadband through the sewer system? Plus that way Mr Hanky can get internet access too!
All misspellings and grammatical errors in the above post are intentional and part of my artistic expression.
They used to require a botnet now all you need is a lighter.