New type of internet connection

I saw this on the news a few days ago. It's a new type of internet connection that works a lot like an electrical outlet. You pay $100 to get it installed, bu then there's no monthly fees! It's also gonna be faster than Cable, DSL, and Satilite. It's about time they thought of something like this. I can't wait to get it. :bigthumb:

Got a link to this?

Sounds like a cool idea...bout time they thought about this kinda connection

Originally posted by YogsVR4
Got a link to this?

I tried to find an article on the station's website, but there wasn't any. :frown: Probably because it's still under development.

I've heard of the same thing being used for home networking. I'll getit if the plans/price is right. You in the US don't know how good you have it wth broadband. Unlimited cable over here is $90/month ($US50) and ADSL 512/128 is $70/m for 6gig on/6 gig off peak. Thats about $40US. Not impressed.

Cable internet over here is about $40 and DSL is about $50.

This technology was researched in former-yugoslavia years and years ago. I remember my father telling me about it and then woah look at this. It's not new at all :p

I currently use Cable, 4mbit-6mbit downstream (varries in between there) and 512kbit-1mbit upstream. There was suppose to be a cap 20GB downstream and 10GB upstream however I've went over the limit recently and nothing. I still use bandwidth monitor to keep below the traffic limit just in case though.

big difference between research and commercially available
namely cost.

Well true not commercially available yet, but it was researched there first long before this :) It was functional. My father is an engineer and worked with the various companies back in former-yugoslavia on all sorts of crazy inventions lol.

I wonder how this will be accepted by corporations though? Why should people pay for a monthly charge if its 'all there' kind of like the idea of global wireless communication and distribution of electricty for free which were dreams of Nikola Tesla never to be... and of course wireless stuff is kind of a thing now.. but it could have been long ago.

It's kind of the thing where corporations want to charge people on satellite. The whole dispute and law suits, etc... Almost like an analogy of paying for air.. I mean cmon.. But heck ;) It's infinite profits. Although wiring electricity goes into the equation here.. yet have the companies that supply the internet access put those wires to begin with? Argh why does everything come down to politics and corporations >_< I just want internet lol..

The funniest thing is how those that didn't believe Nikola Tesla's remote controlled boat they tried digging to find a wire ah crazy humans :D Ah well, I hope something like that doesn't happen with this.

Speaking of which, another type of internet: laser based. Devices placed in buildings which send lasers across to each others to specific points. The bandwidth was in the high terrabytes/sec. It was first begun in England but... due to cancerous nature of the medium it was abandoned last year though I heard of it starting in Toronto for the larger buildings hmm.

Originally posted by Oz
I've heard of the same thing being used for home networking. I'll getit if the plans/price is right. You in the US don't know how good you have it wth broadband. Unlimited cable over here is $90/month ($US50) and ADSL 512/128 is $70/m for 6gig on/6 gig off peak. Thats about $40US. Not impressed.

Lucky yes, Unlimited seems to mean different things to different people. Like my cable company decided to cap me last month b/c I used more then 30gb of Bandwidth in 20 days I mean like fuck it isn't written in the contract that I looked over 10-15 times. Real big piss off when you are used to d/l at 400+ kb a sec then get shafted and can't get nothing beyond 15kb a sec for a good ten days. :mad: :mad: :mad:

Originally posted by gigatron
Well true not commercially available yet, but it was researched there first long before this :) It was functional. My father is an engineer and worked with the various companies back in former-yugoslavia on all sorts of crazy inventions lol.

I wonder how this will be accepted by corporations though? Why should people pay for a monthly charge if its 'all there' kind of like the idea of global wireless communication and distribution of electricty for free which were dreams of Nikola Tesla never to be... and of course wireless stuff is kind of a thing now.. but it could have been long ago.

It's kind of the thing where corporations want to charge people on satellite. The whole dispute and law suits, etc... Almost like an analogy of paying for air.. I mean cmon.. But heck ;) It's infinite profits. Although wiring electricity goes into the equation here.. yet have the companies that supply the internet access put those wires to begin with? Argh why does everything come down to politics and corporations >_< I just want internet lol..

The funniest thing is how those that didn't believe Nikola Tesla's remote controlled boat they tried digging to find a wire ah crazy humans :D Ah well, I hope something like that doesn't happen with this.

Speaking of which, another type of internet: laser based. Devices placed in buildings which send lasers across to each others to specific points. The bandwidth was in the high terrabytes/sec. It was first begun in England but... due to cancerous nature of the medium it was abandoned last year though I heard of it starting in Toronto for the larger buildings hmm.

Thats why they used optical wire since you use lasers either end.

Ericsson was developing lasers for this and i pressume they've built some in excess of 20GB a second since that was the largest i heard last time i looked up on the subject and that was years ago. Thing is they're having problems so they might have given that sort of thing up if it wasn't profitable but i'm sure it is.

Fiber optics are going to be the future. They are going to replace LAN lines as we know it. Copper lines will be replaced except for power. I was working for Provo City here in Utah installing a city wide fiber optic network to the home. We are the first city in the United States to do this if not the world. Other cities are catching on and AOL is starting their own fiber optic network to the home.

We were bringing voice over IP (telephone) video over IP (television) and internet in on one cable with three fibers inside. One for upstream, one for downstream, and one for analog TV. They were working on going will all digital channels. Everything was working great. We saw up to 14Mbits per second on people's computers. That wipes the floor with any cable or DSL connection, and sat, you can forget about it, TOO slow.