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Broadband Over Gas Lines
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:01 am
by liqnit
It sounds starnge but appearntly possible.
"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.'"
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/11/1933214
what do you think???
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:15 am
by DMB2000uk
That sounds crazy, but theoretically possible!
Read this from the original article:
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.
Fires
Dan
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:24 am
by liqnit
I sure hope it will not cause fire
i wonder if you cook at the same time and gas pressure is lowered your speed is changed....
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:12 am
by Apoptosis
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
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:03 am
by liqnit
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
All i was hearing was
42M
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:50 am
by Apoptosis
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.
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:23 am
by kenc51
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
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:39 pm
by liqnit
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
have you tried it?
is working good?
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:53 am
by HONkUS
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
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:05 am
by DMB2000uk
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.
Dan
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:58 am
by Dragon_Cooler
i can just see it now.... some little kid downloading pron late at night saturating the bandwidth and blows up the house.
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:24 pm
by liqnit
Dragon_Cooler wrote:i can just see it now.... some little kid downloading pron late at night saturating the bandwidth and blows up the house.
GOOD!!
maybe it will be warning before "GET THE HELL OUT - HOUSE EXPLODING..."
on the screen
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:10 am
by pcrobot
This is all part of Sen. Ted Stevens' plan to create the series of tubes!
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:30 am
by liqnit
pcrobot wrote:This is all part of Sen. Ted Stevens' plan to create the series of tubes!
never heard of it...
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:13 am
by The Black Pumpkin
DMB2000uk wrote:Would wifi really stretch that far anyways?
Of course! "If" you get a couple high powered 20 dbi repeaters!
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:09 am
by Baddad53
liqnit wrote:pcrobot wrote:This is all part of Sen. Ted Stevens' plan to create the series of tubes!
never heard of it...
It's a "Daily Show" on Comedy Central joke. And a good one