Broadband through power lines soon

Pals, Tech guys are working hard to get you Broadband through power lines. After struggling for years, companies have overcome technical hurdles such as interference on the power lines and getting around electrical transformers that block broadband signals. Using fibre-optic line, the internet signal will be injected into power line after it has left power station. The signal then moves to neighborhoods, using equipment on power poles to leapfrog transformers and flow into homes. The technology will use the existing eletrical wiring at home (The wiring in the test home is more than 40 years old). The only extra equipment a consumer needs is a modem that plugs into an electric outlet and connects to a computer or Internet gadget. This equipments sizes not bigger than a deck of card and costs less than $70.



The testing of the technology is being conducted by Current Technologies, a company based in Germantown, Maryland in association with Potomac Electric Power Co.. The test covers about 70 homes in Maryland. Recently Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell visited the test house to get a preview of the technology. He loved the same and preferred to have the service in his home also. The only concern of FCC is that Internet transmissions carried over power lines could emit signals inside and outside the home that cause interference.



The tech is on the card for near future. Just keep the fingers crossed for this possibly cheap and better way of getting access to NET.




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