Internet at the speed of light

A guy from texas found a way to use the Internet over the electric wire bringing the Internet to just about everyone. They say the speeds will be several thousand times faster than modems. Real racing will finally be awesome again! http://www.dmagazine.com/december99/bdfeature9.html -- "To finish a race first, you first must finish the race" ----Mark Martin g_major on TEN Team STR OSCAR Member http://drive.to/racehard --Personal webpage

> A guy from texas found a way to use the Internet over the electric wire > bringing the Internet to just about everyone. They say the speeds will be > several thousand times faster than modems. every 6 month or so someone claims having invented THE electric wire based communication technique. I remember a press release of some company in the US promising exobits (i.e. 1e18) per second ... well ... if einstein was absolutely wrong: here we go! the current state of technology is about 1 to 5 Mbps ... shared by all households connected to the same supply-station, usually 100 or more. so go out and disconnect your neigbours and you have the speed of DSL for your own needs. otherwise: forget it! Lio

Its certainly possible, I have home automation (X-10) which is a box that goes from my serial port into the electrial outlet. With the software on my pc I can instanly turn on, off or dim any light in my house with the commands sent through the electrical wiring. Btw: here is there main page on it says the speeds are 2.5 GB a second. -- "To finish a race first, you first must finish the race" ----Mark Martin g_major on TEN Team STR OSCAR Member http://drive.to/racehard --Personal webpage "G_Major" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:P1_j4.1189$%[email hidden]... > > A guy from texas found a way to use the Internet over the electric wire > bringing the Internet to just about everyone. They say the speeds will be > several thousand times faster than modems. > > Real racing will finally be awesome again! > > http://www.dmagazine.com/december99/bdfeature9.html > > -- > "To finish a race first, you first must finish the race" > ----Mark Martin > g_major on TEN > Team STR > OSCAR Member > http://drive.to/racehard > --Personal webpage > >

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> > Its certainly possible, I have home automation (X-10) which is a box that > goes from my serial port into the electrial outlet. With the software on my > pc I can instanly turn on, off or dim any light in my house with the > commands sent through the electrical wiring. Btw: here is there main page > on it says the speeds are 2.5 GB a second. > > --

I've heard of such a hose wiring network thing. Do you have a web page on that device? -- ========================================= Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing� ========================================= http://members.xoom.com/BarlowRacing/ Racing online with the help of...... Race Communications Association Holodyne Engineering Mystic Music (have Your !!Name/Address!! placed here)

Actually, It's a fact that copper is faster than fiber if you multiplex it. The technology will arrive for us all to have considerably faster access to the internet at an affordable price. DSL will be available nationwide in 3-5years at an approximate cost of $50-100/Month. Currently, where it is available, it is as low as $100 for certain types of connections (ie, slower versions). Cable modems are becoming more common, though, yes, they are shared bandwidth. They're a hell of a lot faster than analog. T1 has dropped from $2500 2 years ago to 800-1000/Month. Wait another 3-5 years and see what a fractional is then. On the other hand, Sierra could just write a Dedicated Server package for N3 that runs under Kali that would solve the whole issue. Just such a thing is being looked into. I had a Email conversation with Kali Tech about it and they're allready working on it.

It's a fact copper is faster than fiber?!? They are doing 10 terabits a second, with over 100 km. between repeaters. How do you figure copper is faster than that? No way copper comes close, and fiber still has a large upside to the possible transmission rates. One fiber, the diameter of a human hair, can replace about 150, 3" diameter coax cables with repeaters every mile. Fiber is already time division multiplexed, and now they are also doing wave length division multiplexing on top of that, using fiber amplifiers so the signal does not have to be re-converted to an electronic signal for boosting, and using solitons for around the world repeater free connections. That said, DSL is available fairly widely in Canada at $39.95/mo Can ($27US). I'm very happy with mine: 1.5Mbs down, 512kbs up. I had cable, but it's performance got very poor as more people subscribed. My DSL is solid. Kevin Caldwell Calgary, Canada

> It's a fact copper is faster than fiber?!? They are doing 10 terabits a > second, with over 100 km. between repeaters. How do you figure copper is > faster than that? No way copper comes close, and fiber still has a large > upside to the possible transmission rates. One fiber, the diameter of a > human hair, can replace about 150, 3" diameter coax cables with repeaters > every mile. I think you're talking different sorts of speed... Phil probably refers to the signal travelling slightly faster in copper than in fiber (because the speed of light is slightly faster through copper), which again gives lower latency. However fiber gives much more bandwidth, and that's what really matters. -- Arne Martin

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>> It's a fact copper is faster than fiber?!? They are doing 10 terabits a >> second, with over 100 km. between repeaters. How do you figure copper is >> faster than that? No way copper comes close, and fiber still has a large >> upside to the possible transmission rates. One fiber, the diameter of a >> human hair, can replace about 150, 3" diameter coax cables with repeaters >> every mile. >I think you're talking different sorts of speed... Phil probably refers >to the signal travelling slightly faster in copper than in fiber >(because the speed of light is slightly faster through copper), which >again gives lower latency. However fiber gives much more bandwidth, and >that's what really matters.

But it's electricity that passes through the copper wires, isn't it? I always thought that the speed of lightwaves through fiber would always be faster than electrical signals through copper, because of the resistance? JoH ======================================== Jo Helsen EDP Operations BF Belgium ========================================

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:06:07 GMT, "G_Major" >A guy from texas found a way to use the Internet over the electric wire >bringing the Internet to just about everyone. They say the speeds will be >several thousand times faster than modems. Hmmm... People in the UK may remember NOR.WEB (part-financed by an electricity supplier), which made the same claims not so long ago. Did it come to anything? No. -- David. "After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, really." (Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)