Could Broadband Over Power Lines be Dangerous? 240
falconfighter writes " Broadband over Powerlines, once touted as the solution to many internet problems (developing 3rd world countries, etc.) has a new hazard. The system basically involves putting high amounts of modulated RF on a power line. The Amateur Radio Relay League has the most informative page on the topic.
The hazards include exceeding MPE (maximum permissable exposure), RF burns, and disrupting the HF bands of radio. This last one would also work in reverse, meaning hams, airplanes, or the military keying up their radios could take out large areas of internet service (with airplanes, potentially over several hundred miles)."
Slashdotted... (Score:4, Funny)
You think that's bad... (Score:2, Funny)
Laugh Test (Score:5, Funny)
"Let's put something that looks like high-power broadband RF noise on long, unshielded, untwisted power lines, suspended in the air, otherwise known as antennas."
What a way to go (Score:5, Funny)
broadband over powerlines, it's just silly. (Score:5, Funny)
I mean, really, who expects this to work [fiftythree.org]
Support (Score:2, Funny)
Now, a different wave of support questions.
Support Monkey: Sir, do you see lighting like things on your computer? Sir... Sir...
(To his colleague monkey) Looks like he hung up
Bush Administration thinks this is dangerous... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Support (Score:3, Funny)
Gene Roddenberry truly *was* a visionary.
I have the power! (Score:5, Funny)
More voltage means more bandwidth!
Let me just up the wattage a little bit more!
Ahh! Ahh!
(Slump)