"USA Today says we might see some progress in broadband over gas pipes, as startup Nethercomm (warning: Flash site) is working on the technology to deliver broadband Internet over this medium using ultrawideband radio. According to the article: 'Broadband in Gas would require installation of an ultrawideband transmitter that's linked to an Internet backbone... at a gas company's network hub. A receiver would be placed at a customer's gas meter. Build-out costs are about $200 per household, Nethercomm says. By contrast, broadband over power lines costs about $600 per household, while phone and cable TV networks each cost well over $1,000 per home to build.'"
Nunally says, power levels can be boosted to provide each household bandwidth of up to 6 gigabits per second, several times that of a cable provider. Yet power is low enough so that signals can share the pipes with natural gas without starting a fire, he says.
I've heard this all before... Williams Communications Group, Inc had this idea way back in 1999. One of my close high school friends Uncle is Matthew Bross here in St. Louis and he used to be Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Williams.
I'm not sure what happened to the guy.
Update: He left Willams for BT over in England in 2002 and the last report on the guy from when he was at Williams (here) said he made $42 million in the boom. Last I heard from my friend he is still at BT. Yeah he's still at BT: Linky
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Apoptosis wrote:I've heard this all before... Williams Communications Group, Inc had this idea way back in 1999. One of my close high school friends Uncle is Matthew Bross here in St. Louis and he used to be Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Williams.
I'm not sure what happened to the guy.
Update: He left Willams for BT over in England in 2002 and the last report on the guy from when he was at Williams (here) said he made $42 million in the boom. Last I heard from my friend he is still at BT. Yeah he's still at BT: Linky
I actually just sent him an e-mail, so maybe I'll hear back from him. He's a really cool guy. Anyone that let me, at 18, drive his brand new hummer is cool in my books.
The electricity supply board here is running a Trial for DSL over your Electric cables! This means EVERYONE should be able to get DSL
There's also a more "robust" DSL IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2549.txt
This is a legit RFC for a protocol
kenc51 wrote:The electricity supply board here is running a Trial for DSL over your Electric cables! This means EVERYONE should be able to get DSL
There's also a more "robust" DSL IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2549.txt
This is a legit RFC for a protocol
I wish I could get broadband what really sucks is that theres a family probably a quarter mile from us that has cable but they wont let me setup a wifi network
Would wifi really stretch that far anyways?
If you didnt mind paying through your nose for it you gould get broadband via satellite, though it has a higher latency than normal DSL.
what really sucks is that theres a family probably a quarter mile from us that has cable but they wont let me setup a wifi network 
