IP over power grid sounds cool, but it has a severe drawback: the information is spread over 3-30 MHz and as the power lines near households are very poorly insulated, they act as transmitting antennas on these frequencies. This raises the noise floor significantly in areas that use this technology.
If this becomes common, we will have to say goodbye to shortwave listening, amateur radio and many other uses of 3-30 MHz radio frequencies.
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My mother is 80 and uses Ubuntu. My grandma, on the other hand, is dead and has big difficulties using MS-DOS, let alone Linux.
IP over power grid sounds cool, but it has a severe drawback: the information is spread over 3-30 MHz and as the power lines near households are very poorly insulated, they act as transmitting antennas on these frequencies. This raises the noise floor significantly in areas that use this technology.
If this becomes common, we will have to say goodbye to shortwave listening, amateur radio and many other uses of 3-30 MHz radio frequencies.
Janne