Internet through Power Lines.....

[jacobnero6918]

mega is a million and giga is billion.

1,000,000 bits

1,000,000,000 bits

so actually giga is 1,000 mega's

 

[WoundedWallet]

Ok, I went ahead and got the answer.

10^24 yotta Y
10^21 zetta Z
10^18 exa E
10^15 peta P
10^12 tera T
10^9 giga G
10^6 mega M
10^3 kilo k
10^2 hecto h
10^1 deka da

So that means that one Gb=1,000Mb

Which makes me wrong on my first post. But on the zonedin.com site they are saying the following:
Cable 1,200-27,000(Kbps)
PAN 25,000 +

We know that the cable speed is right for 1.2 to 27 Mbps.
So that would make PAN a 25+Mbps and not 2.5+Gbps

Sorry for the mess up at first, but the numbers still don't match to me.

 

[WoundedWallet]

I'm a slow typist.

 

[jacobnero6918]

I would love to know what cable modem can do 27 megabits....


The best is maybe 8 megabits on a great day with a completely empty server.

 

[WoundedWallet]

I think this is their physical limit. As with my DSL, I was told that my line could take up to 8mbps.

But did you see what I saw about the speed comparisons? PAN is at the upper limit of cable, but cable doesn't go 2.7Gbps. Instead it goes to 27Mbps.

 

[Czar]

My company was at a tech show here and I managed to talk alot with the guys with this thing here in iceland, and about the 100mbps internet connection they will offer by the end of this year

Anyway its called PLC and offers 2-10mbps speed, its like this, they have a fiber optic line to the local powerhouse and from there its through the electric lines. In the house there will be a box that I think just calculates the usage, and then if you want to connect your computer to it then you just connect this 8x5x4cm thingy to the jacket and then a tp connector to that.

Didnt ask much about this system though, to busy talking about the 100mbps connections

 

[prontospyder]

WoundedWallet:

Media Fusion has a new website now: http://www.mediafusioncorp.com/main/

It has full of technical explanations that I don't understand.

I also heard that deployment of this will be faster at other countries compared to the US since the foreigners are more supportive of it...

 

[prontospyder]

2.5 Gigabits/sec is roughly 312.5 megabytes per second!

 

[Soccerman]

"I also heard that deployment of this will be faster at other countries compared to the US since the foreigners are more supportive of it..."

really.. maybe I'll actually be able to get this up here in Canada.. nah, it'll never happen..

I wouldn't be surprised though if this DOES become a reality.. however I won't count on it till it actually happens..

 

[SSP]

prontospyder, I got 298MB/s.

 

[cavingjan]

Anybody who has run x10 for controlling lights can tell you that it can be a major pain to eliminate all of the sources of moise and more often filters in your power system. I have 5 things that I've had to isolate including my one computer system. And I'm have a house that is only 9 years old.
I welcome a VERY mature product of this concept but I definitely would not be an early adopter.

 

[dkozloski]

P. T. Barnum would love this!

 

[WoundedWallet]

Can someone tell me I'm not crazy and the numbers on http://www.zonedin.com/mediafusion.zml don't match!

25,000Kbps is not 2.5Gbps

Thanks.

 

[prontospyder]

SSP: 312, 298...what's the difference?

cavingjan: I'm not very familar with the X10 product, but there are many people who network their home computers through the power lines without any problems. I think companies such as Intelogis and Diamond offers it.

 

[dkozloski]

Prontospyder, getting from one end of a house to the other with a moderate data rate connection is one thing; getting from one end of a building to the other past lighting fixtures with electronic ballasts, HVAC systems with variable speed drives, isolation and voltage transformers, switchgear, switching power supplies, and all the other heavy electrical equipmtent in todays building environment is quite another. I use building powerlines to send command signals to building systems including heating, ventilating and air conditioning and it is no simple matter. Conditions change from day to day as noise generating equipment is turned on and off in the surrounding area. Being able to get a signal from here to there one time and being able to demonstrate the kind of mission critical reliability that people are used to demanding and getting from network providers is separated by a vast gulf that is not likely to be bridged soon by anyone but crafty salesmen.

 

[prontospyder]

dkozloski:

I guess that's one of the reasons why companies stick with traditional means when setting up a network huh?

 

[WoundedWallet]

Gee, thanks guys for leaving me out here looking like a dork talking to the air.:|

 

[prontospyder]

Sorry WoundedWallet,

I'm as confused as you are.

 

[Chupa]

WW:
Yes, you are right, their numbers do not match...in the graph it says 25 Mb/s, then right below it they claim 2.5 Gb/s. It's called marketing. They really don't know what they are talking about, they just want it to sound good for investors.

 

[WoundedWallet]

Thank you Chupa. Thank you!

I've been up all nite tossing and turning because of this. Now my wife will allow me to leave the bathtub and go back to bed

WW

 

[pm]

The MediaFusion webpage is more than a bit confusing. I'm with dkozloski here... I can't see how this could work. Besides, on one page they show that they are using a MASER to drive signals out onto power lines. A MASER? That's coherent microwave radation. How on earth is this going to work in a power line system? Unless they are using the power grid as some form of waveguide (which I wouldn't think could work), this seems unfeasible. To me, the pages seem like they are full of neat technical sounding terms that really don't explain anything at all.

 

[dkozloski]

To all the people who are about to bet the farm on this scheme. Ask yourself why the Telcos and cable companies are spending millions on shielded coax and fiber when according to these guys they could go to Home Depot and buy 16/3 Romex for a hell of a lot less.