[ILUG] [OT] Power Line communications ?

[Stephen Shirley]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:49:52PM -0800, Geoff Moore wrote:
> 
> High speed data can't get up through your local transformer anyway (at your
> closest sub-station which is probably closer than you think), so you're
> really only sharing a network with people connected to the same transformer
> as you....OK still quite a few but not the whole country.
> 
So does this mean that with some (probably illegal, certainly dangerous)
work, you could network your neighbourhood together (or even 4, 5
houses)? That would rock having 42Mbps lan, not needed to string cat5
between houses etc.

Steve, who had cat5 running through 4 peoples back gardens for a year
without them noticing -)
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