1. Inari (formerly Intelogis) has been shipping a 350 Kbps powerline networking kit for 2 years. You can purchase it at Fry's, Office Max, CompUSA etc. It works in about 80% of the outlets in an average home. There are GPL'd Linux drivers for it on SourceForge. It's good for no more than about 10 nodes. It uses encryption to keep your neighbors from sniffing your data. Sure it is slow, but it's faster than your dial up connection. 2. 14 Mbps is really impressive on a power line. (Lots of reflections, lots of noise, dynamic line conditions). I wonder if it really runs that fast? Has anyone seen a demo? 3. Intel's home networking product is a phone line product based on the HomePNA (Home phone network association) spec. 4. Wireless is still more expensive than powerline and it has its own set of problems.
IBM did something very similar to this a number of years ago. They created a language called "Hermes" that allowed inter-process communication through pipe-like mechanisms. Sorry I don't have any references handy.
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1. Inari (formerly Intelogis) has been shipping a 350 Kbps powerline networking kit for 2 years. You can purchase it at Fry's, Office Max, CompUSA etc. It works in about 80% of the outlets in an average home. There are GPL'd Linux drivers for it on SourceForge. It's good for no more than about 10 nodes. It uses encryption to keep your neighbors from sniffing your data. Sure it is slow, but it's faster than your dial up connection.
2. 14 Mbps is really impressive on a power line. (Lots of reflections, lots of noise, dynamic line conditions). I wonder if it really runs that fast? Has anyone seen a demo?
3. Intel's home networking product is a phone line product based on the HomePNA (Home phone network association) spec.
4. Wireless is still more expensive than powerline and it has its own set of problems.
IBM did something very similar to this a number of years ago. They created a language called "Hermes" that allowed inter-process communication through pipe-like mechanisms. Sorry I don't have any references handy.