The key is filtering the noise. There are serious tests going on in the UK using mains for broadband internet right now.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Walkden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 12 September 2002 18:31 > To: Rob Brigham > Subject: Re[2]: NEW PENTAX PATENTS!!!: The gobbledegook and > my humbletranslations...More... > > > Hi, > > I did a project once using a thing called a mains modem. The > company I was working for was looking for a cheap way of > networking some PCs together so with one of the engineers I > got to write some rs232 comms. stuff in assembler and > Modula-2 and run around the site with the engineer pushing a > trolley with a PC on, plugging the thing into the mains and > sending test messages to the base PC to see how far away we > could get a signal. Fun project, crap product. > > --- > > Bob > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, September 12, 2002, 3:19:52 PM, you wrote: > Yep, you can even get broadband internet down the mains power lines if > you filter out the noise. They can implement things any number of > ways using either the digital link or the power contacts, depending on > communication speeds being up to the job.
