On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:29:05 GMT, "Frank Dresser"
wrote:


I don't think the worst case scenerio, thousands of miles of HV power
distribution wires carrying high speed digital signals, was ever practical.
There's interference, there's unpredictable reflections and, even in the
most optimistic case, the available bandwidth won't split among alot of
users and still be high speed.

There are other approaches which promise to cause much less interference,
although I think the real motovation is to minimize BPL's vunerabilities:

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/05/23/1/

Frank Dresser


Won't WiMax accomplish the same thing more cheaper?