On Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:50:42 +0200 Eric van Es <vanes@ILINK.NIS.ZA>
writes:
>On this subject: did anyone else hear about the nice idea of using
>powerlines
>to connect ppl to the 'net?
>
>News just broke here...
>

        Doesn't sound like much to me.  Power lines are real noisey and
any communications RF on them stops at the local step-down transformer.
So, the low voltage power line could, I suppose, be used as a local drop,
and they could put a router on each pole with a transformer to put info
onto the higher voltage lines higher on the pole.  But, what is the data
capacity of those lines?  So...  I don't think there's much capability
here... but I've been wrong before.

Harold