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Flat File - On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:37:34 -0500, Michael Quinn wrote: The recent articles on DSL availabilty prompted me to check with Verizon yet again to see if Verizon had at last made DSL available in my neighborhood in Northern VA. I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had, and with a little bit of searching discovered a wireless hub and small wireless USB adaptors at buy.com on sale for about $35 each. The wired versions -- either conventional NIC cards using CAT 5 cable or the HPNA stle which use phone lines are both more expensive and the former of course entails running and terminating cables.BYTE.COM noted in their CES report of Tuesday afternoon:Powerline networking, aka HomePlug, has been "going to happen" forover a decade, but appeared to be headed nowhere -- the same nowherethat phone-line networking fell into. But, while we weren't looking,the HomePlug Powerline Alliance (HPPA) quietly built momentum fortheir "no new wires" products, which run over your house's existingpower lines. CES saw a good number of HomePlug interoperabilitydemonstrations in the HPPA's booth, far more than we would havepredicted. Intellon was touting the cost to build HomePlug intoexisting products at as little as $10 in parts, far lower than today.Panasonic has put its name behind HomePlug as well, particularly forin-home hi-def streaming.But not with the current standard. Current HomePlug (1.0) runs at 14Megabits/second (Mbps), a respectable speed for Internet surfing buthopelessly inadequate for streaming. The upcoming HomePlug AV standardpromises greater than 100 Mbps throughput, "faster than any flavor ofWi-Fi," aimed especially at moving Hi-definition television (HD) betweenyour set-top box and a TV in a different room. One of the main siliconplayers in this business is Intellon, whose "PowerAV" chips will probablyplay a major part in the eventual standard. Expect HomePlug AV productslate in 2004, with the same plug-it-in-and-it-networks practicality asHomePlug 1.0. Just after CES, the HPPA announced some new heavy hitters forits board of directors, including ComCast and Earthlink. Looks like abandwagon, only time will tell how big.--Nobody but a fool goes into a federal counterrorism operation withoutduct tape - Richard Preston, THE COBRA EVENT.
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