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"This is an achievement of a major national milestone," said Joseph E. Fergus, founder and chief executive of Communication Technologies, or Comtek, ... He said the technology "will be deployed within two years to scores of communities across the U.S."

For years, broadband-over-power-line technology, which allows access to the Internet through any electrical socket in the home or office, has been touted as a potential alternative to service from cable and phone companies

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/05/AR2005100501982.html

http://www.physorg.com/news7014.html

It is a terrible idea, it does provide cheap relative high speeds, but from most articles about it talk about how it disrupts most radio/tv and other such signals. If everyone has this then there will be no radio, and im not gonna give up that because some person cant afford dsl, lol. Just get dsl or cable besieds from the article above it isnt even that cheap.

http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry331.html

Interesting! I think this could actually cause a major problem for current broadband providers.

Really electrifying...

I thought it was just the opposite -> expensive.
I think it will be quit an advancement if they can get it going. I know I'll appreciate it, because we don't live in an area where it's easy to get broadband, so we have a lot of trouble with our service, and the provider.

A good idea for a developing country which has lots of powerlines already but not much highspeed cables. Places like India, China, Russia, South Africa and such.

Imagine all these poor people exposed to spyware and idiot popups!

There a some 20 cities running trials on BLP, and the most exspensive I've found so far was $40, the cheapest at $20. BLP does have an inherent problem of radio interference because the power lines aren't shielded like cable or telephone lines. Because of these interference problems BLP can't be used in sensitive area such as military installations. One town in Pa. has disscontinued their trial stating that it wouldn't produce enough revenue with only a 1.6 potential client base. Living in a rural area myself I would love to see Pacific Gas & Electric try it, where I'm living the only option is a satelitte hookup @ $60. plus a month...not an option with my budget.

Yeah, it sucks when you don't have many options. When only have one provider for broadband in my area, and it took then about 3 months to come out and dig a line for us, because there were no existing lines to feed from.(at least we got it though)

Hi guys,

This is not new, it´s been going on for years. About two years ago, I talked to Amperion about putting it in Europe but they didn´t have a 220V 50Hz model.

They have developed a system that injects the signal at 24MB and then, at the user end, there is a wireless device that clamps around the low voltage line and connects to a receiver at the PC. Don´t know what data rates they are delivering at that end but it´s a pretty neat solution.

check it out at www.amperion.com

Weird, I first read about this in a scientific journal describing a pending experiment in the UK.
Never heard what happened with it but that was about 1996, well before current broadband technologies had matured to the point where they were mainstream and cheap enough for any but the most affluent companies and universities to afford them (most people at the time, if they had internet access at all, were connecting through 28k8 modems and paying by the second).