Re: Broadband goes electric

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:58, Tony Butler wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:47, Tony Butler wrote:
> > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2754203.stm
> > 
> > Norweb tried this idea several years ago .... it flopped.
> 
> I know -  trials seemed to be going okay, then they decided it
was too 
> difficult/not enough demand or something, amidst rumours that the real
concerns 
> were about consumers fannying about with their electricity and
plugging modems 
> into 240v or something equally lame like that.
> Didn't their foreign partners go off and implement it successfully on
the 
> continent or something?
> (Damn this failing memory!)

I don't know of anywhere that it's been past the trial stage...

> Intersting that it's seeing a revival now..... Wonder if it'll kill
X10 signals?

You would have thought so, but I'm not that far through "The Art
of
Electronics" to be able to work it out :-)

-- 
Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>



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