Re: Broadband Over Power Lines ??



Joerg wrote:

Hello Jim,

Anyone know about Broadband Over Power Lines... inside buildings?

I've heard of it being trialled here and there but not much activity. Wireless
eems to have a decent chunk of business though.

It is commonly called PLC if you want to search Google. In Germany they
rolled it out in some areas and what I heard sounded like rather mixed
blessings. Sustained data rates not that great, lots of EMI issues. The
power grid is not at all a suitable medium for communications.

One power company here used their 'grid' as a backbone for comms but in a
different way. They installed optic fibre over their HV cables ( literally wound
round it IIRC ) and created a network that avoided all the issues like digging
the roads up.

Graham

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