Are you in Cincinnati? According to a story over at slashdot Cincinnati is the first town to offer broadband over power lines. <br><br>I thought this kind of thing was a long way off from being reality, but the article appears legit. If you're in Cinci have you heard about this?<br><br>Here's the kicker!! "At $29.95/month for 1 Mb/s both upstream and down, it's only a few bucks more than the local dialup providers."<br><br>1Mb BOTH directions for $29!? Holy bandwidth, Batman! <br><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Trog on 03/02/04 06:53 PM (server time).</EM></FONT></P>
This will be awesome...<br><br>I am about 50 miles north of Cincinnati, MattMac is in Indianpolis...the power line thing is huge, because it is on every room...<br><br>
Crap, look at those prices!!! Plus, see what it costs for 1Mb/sec UPLOAD any place in the U.S. I pay $40/month for about 1Mb/sec down and about 25k/sec up. That upload speed SUCKS to say the least.<br><br>This almost sounds too good to be true, and you know what that usually means...<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Trog on 03/02/04 07:10 PM (server time).</EM></FONT></P>
What is security like? It's not like you could suddenly hook up a router to it. And could you still put in a surge protector and/or a UPS device?<br><br>
How do you know you couldn't hook up a router to it? I'd imagine it will require a special modem, like a cable modem, that will have a CAT5 output.<br><br>
<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>Alex Pardo of Cinergy said the Internet traffic travels on a separate band wave from the electric current, so there's no interference.<br><br>He said the utility has found no problem with radio wave interference, a concern raised by many amateur radio operators.<p><hr></blockquote><p>
<br><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Trog on 03/02/04 06:53 PM (server time).</EM></FONT></P>
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