OT: Broadband/local phone service

[Electrum]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
I have seen there adds.

I am waiting for broad band over the Power Lines. No crap, they can actually use the power lines and electrical outlets in your home to transmit and receive broad band.

It's been tied up in legal debates. HAM operators & emergency services are claiming it will interfere w/ their radios.

[Narrew]

Many years ago, long before wireless started to get going, there were a couple of companies that offered in-house networking over the existing electrical wireing in the house, good idea, but one of the main problem was noise (static, electrial), house wireing is not sheilded like network wireing. It was a great idea for its time.

The thing I would think might also keep it from going further, is fiber. Fiber network (around the world) will be the future for physical backbone and Sattelite's for the wireless. One of the things about fiber that I have read about, that there is techniques down the road to take the existing fiber threads and use the spectrum of light to channel data, i.e. red band would be a channel, blue band would be another ect... the only limiting issue would be the sending/receiving device (more spectrum bands used the more data can be sent at the same time).

blah, blah...well it was interesting to me anyways...

[Combat Wombat]

Broadband over powerlines is the wrong way to go. It interferes with HAM and AM radio signals. We will lose some TV channels. Then soon we will have appliances that are networked and everything we use will be monitered and recorded. Japan tried broadband over powerline and they stopped using it. Wonder why?

[Combat Wombat]

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[Roanon]

Originally posted by Electrum:
HAM operators & emergency services are claiming it will interfere w/ their radios.

Same problems over here in Germany, there are proven cases where it interferes with short wave radio. Not used often, but still more rights to these frequencies. Although here in Germany the legal system sucks, and it will likely take a few hundred years untill cases like that will be settled finally.