Michael Wright: >> I have just heard that you wont need to be on a land line if you live in >> Australia. Ergon Enery is taking over, all you need is adsl modem a >> computer and all you do is plug it in the wall and you connected, this >> will go on your power bill... Claude Jones: > For why this may not be such a great idea, take a look here to see some > details about the controversy raging around the proposed broadband over power > line proposals. > http://tinyurl.com/4jubx Having read various things about it, I find it disturbing too. The methodology is going to cause widespread problems to other people (other people not using the internet, and therefore not in a position to adjust what they do to avoid the problems, because it's some other person giving them grief). Then there's the problem of trying to run a WAN over a hub. Internet over power lines is just a giant shared network, more so than cable TV internet. There's more than a few tales of woe about what happens when you put lots of people onto a hub (where the traffic is all shared). It's bad enough on a LAN, never mind a WAN. Not sure what this thread has to do with Fedora... -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
