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Ethernet over unused twisted pair?



On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 07:19:52AM -0600, Jack Coats wrote:
> Our local power company (in TN) now reads the power meters network wide hourly.
> So I think they 'have it down' pretty well now.  I wish they would let
> me get internet
> over them too!

It's much more likely that they have strung fiber next to the
power lines than that they are using BPL -- broadband over power
lines. 

The in-house powerline network systems have the advantage and
limitation of not being asked to cross transformer boundaries.

-dsr-

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