[flamberge]

They can run a USB signal over your 110V ac lines to an adapter on a computer or WiFi router in your house.

What could possibly go wrong?.....

[Califreak]

I don’t like our brave new world full of computerized everything, legal drugs and socially acceptable deviance and devoid of God.

[Openurmind]

I am fighting my smartmeter all the time. It keeps trying to set up a LAN with my PC. Least they could do is give me free internet through it. lol

But there is no need for a physical connection, Smartmeters are cellphone/WiFi and already a wireless connection. They are connected WiFi in series/relay with your neighbors as a wireless network.