FM quality domestic "broadband"?

I remember when I was a lad ... that an electronics magazine had a circuit - to
make an adapter that plugged into the mains 240V AC socket - and as long as u
had one adapter per sockt - u cd transmit data all around the house. Now - if
someone cd come up with a viable alternative to wi-fi - we wouldn't need all
this WEP encryption taking up so much overhead, and obviating setup problems
too! Any entrepreneurial types reading this out there .......... ?

"Huck Portobello" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I remember when I was a lad ... that an electronics magazine had a
circuit - to
> make an adapter that plugged into the mains 240V AC socket - and as long
as u
> had one adapter per sockt - u cd transmit data all around the house.
Now - if
> someone cd come up with a viable alternative to wi-fi - we wouldn't need
all
> this WEP encryption taking up so much overhead, and obviating setup
problems
> too! Any entrepreneurial types reading this out there .......... ?

They still make them, you can get RJ45 bridges which run through the mains
circuitry of the house. T'was in PCAdvisor a couple of months back.

hamman

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Huck Portobello <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I remember when I was a lad ... that an electronics magazine had a
> circuit - to make an adapter that plugged into the mains 240V AC
> socket - and as long as u had one adapter per sockt - u cd transmit
> data all around the house. Now - if someone cd come up with a viable
> alternative to wi-fi - we wouldn't need all this WEP encryption
> taking up so much overhead, and obviating setup problems too! Any
> entrepreneurial types reading this out there .......... ?

Please post in English, *not* in SMS jibberish!

Since the mains is also connected to other houses in your street, what's to
stop your neighbours from hacking into such a network? Surely you'd still
need security measures similar to those for wi-fi.
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Tiscali Tim wrote:
>
> Please post in English, *not* in SMS jibberish!
>
> Since the mains is also connected to other houses in your street, what's to
> stop your neighbours from hacking into such a network? Surely you'd still
> need security measures similar to those for wi-fi.

The mains is connected to all the houses in the country courtesy of the
national grid.

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 11:29:35 -0000, "Tiscali Tim" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Please post in English, *not* in SMS jibberish!
>
>Since the mains is also connected to other houses in your street, what's to
>stop your neighbours from hacking into such a network? Surely you'd still
>need security measures similar to those for wi-fi.

If it is anything like the baby alarms that use the electric sockets,
such things only work on the same ring main. So if you have a
different ring main upstairs from downstairs, you can't communicate
between floors.

In which case there shouldn't be any leakage into neighbouring houses.

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"Huck Portobello" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I remember when I was a lad ... that an electronics magazine had a
circuit - to
> make an adapter that plugged into the mains 240V AC socket - and as long
as u
> had one adapter per sockt - u cd transmit data all around the house.

Do you mean Home Phone Networking ?

If so, there are some products out there which support it.. the BT Home
Network 1200 for instance.

You can read a review at
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/hardware...q2/bt-1200.asp

Regards
Sunil

Sunil Sood wrote:
> "Huck Portobello" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I remember when I was a lad ... that an electronics
>> magazine had a circuit - to make an adapter that plugged
>> into the mains 240V AC socket - and as long as u had one
>> adapter per sockt - u cd transmit data all around the
>> house.
>
> Do you mean Home Phone Networking ?
>
> If so, there are some products out there which support
> it.. the BT Home Network 1200 for instance.
>
> You can read a review at
> http://www.adslguide.org.uk/hardware...q2/bt-1200.asp
>
> Regards
> Sunil

Or what about this

http://www.adslguide.org.uk/hardware...everwire14.asp
( http://tinyurl.com/i9fi )

"Tiscali Tim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:c056ir$13645r$(E-Mail Removed)...
> In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> Huck Portobello <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > I remember when I was a lad ... that an electronics magazine had a
> > circuit - to make an adapter that plugged into the mains 240V AC
> > socket - and as long as u had one adapter per sockt - u cd transmit
> > data all around the house. Now - if someone cd come up with a viable
> > alternative to wi-fi - we wouldn't need all this WEP encryption
> > taking up so much overhead, and obviating setup problems too! Any
> > entrepreneurial types reading this out there .......... ?
>
> Please post in English, *not* in SMS jibberish!
>

Steady there, Colonel! If he'd really been trying you'd
have seen something like:

"I rmbr wen I wz a ld ... dat an electronics mag had
a cirKit - 2 mak an adapt@ dat plugged N2 D mains
240V AC socket - n as lng as u hd 1 adapter / sockt
- u cd tx data ll arnd D hous. nw - f sum1 cd
cum ^ W a viable altrntve 2 wi-fi - we wudnt nd ll
dis WEP encryption takN ^ so mch ovRhead, n obviating
set^ woes 2! NE Ntrepreneurial typz readN dis ot der?"

....in which case the bounder would be most deserving
of a sound thrashing. Possibly even being voted out
of the Retired Officers' Club!

Cheers,

Tim.



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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
King Queen <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> If it is anything like the baby alarms that use the electric sockets,
> such things only work on the same ring main. So if you have a
> different ring main upstairs from downstairs, you can't communicate
> between floors.
>
> In which case there shouldn't be any leakage into neighbouring houses.


I'm not quite sure how they know which ring main they're on - since they're
all connected together in the CU!

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Thanks for the great replies - I might give this a go, as I am not sure I want
all the WEP difficulties, and am sure that my ring-main is not accessible by
the neighbours - who are not very computer-savvie to begin with, so shd be OK.

Srry 2 hav caught the attention of the flmrs 4 using abbvtd txt, but if u wanna
flm, thn u hrdly nd 2 wt 4 sm1 lk me!!! LOL