[lug] OT power line communication

[BOF]

Paul E Condon wrote:

>The Denver Post business section has an article on power line use as a connection for internet traffic into the home.  
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This is also called Broadband Over Power Line (BPL): try searching 
Google using this term.

BPL is being touted as the solution to bringing highspeed Internet 
access to everyone by those businesses who would profit it from it, and 
seems to be in political favor in Washington with the FCC (who seem to 
have been bought out by BPL lobbyists). However, The American Radio 
Relay League has done studies on it and why it is not a good idea 
because of massive interference with radio frequencies. From an 
information page by the ARRL

    Studies done by amateurs and regulators worldwide demonstrate
    conclusively that BPL that uses HF or VHF spectrum will cause
    serious degradation of the communications capability to nearby
    receivers on frequencies that BPL uses. HF is a unique international
    resource that is in use by commercial radio services, broadcasting,
    amateurs, government and military operators. 

See http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/ for more information on radio 
interference.

BOF