[H-GEN] FYI: Internet access via electricity cable system (fwd)

[Steve Pinel]

At 09:15 PM 2/20/98 +1000, Michael Anthon wrote:
>Errr.. surely they can't be serious ?  It's hard enough getting a modem to 
>work over a twisted copper pair at 56k and they are talking about getting 
>1M over open wire power transmission lines?  Gimme a break !!

There is at least one way around all this, an option I have heard that
Queensland Rail has talked about using some years back when they were
tossing up joining in the Pay TV industry.

Pretty much every High tension cable in the electricity and train networks
has an associated communications cable, sometimes copper and sometimes
fiber, but always with excess bandwidth going begging.  Now the electricity
distribution network has got a pretty big penetration in Queensland (i.e.,
virtually everyone), and it wouldn't be a particularly bug technical feat
to add on a comms network on top of it.
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