Ethernet over unused twisted pair?

[Jack Coats]

No, no fiber in the area.  And a quarter of a mile to the nearest road.
No DSL, no cable either.  We live on a scout camp in what is a rural county
in TN (about 25 miles NW of Nashville).

I only found out by going down to the power company and asking about
our bill, to see if some power saving items helped, and they showed me
the 'hour by hour' power measurement reading (still in KWH, nothing finer).

It also helps them during power outages (broken power lines are common,
in winter with ice, and all year due to winds blowing trees into lines).  We
still have a minor outage (per my UPS log) one to 4 ties per week and a
major one few of months (an hour or more).

IHS ... Jack



On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 07:19:52AM -0600, Jack Coats wrote:
>> Our local power company (in TN) now reads the power meters network wide hourly.
>> So I think they 'have it down' pretty well now.  I wish they would let
>> me get internet
>> over them too!
>
> It's much more likely that they have strung fiber next to the
> power lines than that they are using BPL -- broadband over power
> lines.
>
> The in-house powerline network systems have the advantage and
> limitation of not being asked to cross transformer boundaries.
>
> -dsr-