Posted on 10/14/2004 9:52:31 AM PDT by batmast
" Remote capability to connect and disconnect electrical service"
Don't know if I like that or not. Sign up for BPL, miss one payment, they can kill all the electricity in your house from the safety of their own desk.
and yes, I know that would be an extreme case. My tinfoil hat is on nice and snug, thank you very much.
You can't shield the wires in your house.
Yep.
Colin's little boy got his orders and his $$$.
True, but the transmission lines are higher-power. They already play havoc with radio transmissions in their vicinity. I have to think they'd be a bigger issue than the lower-voltage lines in your house, which do not generally produce much in the way of RF emissions.
Well, the ARRP seem to have a big problem with it and they should know.
FCC letting utilities move into broadband
Washington Times | October 15, 2004 | UPI
Posted on 10/16/2004 5:52:19 AM PDT by Lonely Bull
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1246970/posts
FCC adopts rules for broadband over power line
Mobile Radio Technology | Oct 15, 2004 | Donny Jackson and Glenn Bischoff
Posted on 10/18/2004 6:43:55 AM PDT by Denver Ditdat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1248628/posts
Plugging Into the Net, Through the Humble Wall Outlet
(broadband over power lines, or B.P.L.)
NY Times | October 28, 2004 | TOM McNICHOL
Posted on 10/27/2004 8:58:49 PM PDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1259568/posts
Broadband Use Surpasses Dial-Up in U.S.
Yahoo News | Dec 21, 2004 | By ANICK JESDANUN
Posted on 12/21/2004 2:05:28 PM PST by Lazamataz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1306103/posts
WiMax May Pose Fresh Challenge to Broadband
Yahoo -- Reuters | Sun Feb 27,11:32 AM ET | Sinead Carew
Posted on 02/28/2005 6:00:18 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1353057/posts
Broadband scuffle reaches Supreme Court
CNET | March 25, 2005, 4:00 AM PST | Jim Hu Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Posted on 03/28/2005 1:39:30 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1372551/posts
Packet tracking promises ultrafast internetToday, all traffic on the internet uses a system called the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) developed in the 1970s by network engineers Vinton Cerf at Stanford University and Bob Kahn at the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. TCP breaks down large files into small packets of about 1500 bytes, each carrying the address of the sender and the recipient. The sending computer transmits a packet, waits for a signal from the recipient that acknowledges its safe arrival, and then sends the next packet... [E]ven minor glitches on the line can make a connection very sluggish. Because Fast TCP uses the same packet sizes as regular TCP, the hardware that carries messages around the net will still work. The difference is in software and hardware on the sending computer, which continually measures the time it takes for sent packets to arrive, and how long acknowledgements take to come back. This reveals the delays on the line, giving early warnings of likely packet losses. The Fast TCP software uses this to predict the highest data rate the connection can support without losing data. Since the packets are the same size as those used in TCP, none of the equipment along the internet itself will have to be modified, and no new hardware will be needed on computers receiving the data... By ganging 10 Fast TCP systems together, the researchers have achieved transmission speeds of over 8.6 gigabits per second, which is more than 6000 times the capacity of ordinary broadband links.
by Barry Fox
10:54 05 June 03
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