broadband from Southern Electric?
03-07-2003, 20:17
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broadband from Southern Electric?
Our broadband product is a new technology based on Powerline Communications, that provides you with high-speed access (up to 20 times faster than dial up) to the internet via your electricity cables, therefore you can surf all day without tying up your telephone line.
In Stonehaven we will be providing internet access at as much as 1,000Kbps, thatâ₠¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s twice as fast as ADSL broadband services.
ADSL †“ Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line, is the broadband service currently provided by ISPââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s via a telephone line. Typical download speeds are up to 500Kbps and upload speeds are up to 256Kbps compared with up to 1000Kbps in both directions from our broadband service.
http://www.southern-electric.co.uk/broadband/
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03-07-2003, 20:18
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I read something about this ages ago. Good to see it actually works.
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03-07-2003, 20:20
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03-07-2003, 20:23
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Absolutley, that would be a mega fast connection just think how quick you'd download something. 
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03-07-2003, 20:25
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Scottish Hydro-Electric brings broadband to Crieff, Campbeltown and soon Stonehaven.
http://www.hydro.co.uk/broadband/
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03-07-2003, 20:26
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Not without problems through
http://www.darc.de/referate/emv/plc/
& loads more where that came from.
The voltage excursions on your mains to make it work reliably are also quite big & much existing equipment was not designed with this in mind. Might need to put a mains filter on my hi-fi
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09-07-2003, 14:52
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Just had a look. Much more expensive than ntl, on a par with BT.
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11-07-2003, 07:42
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i remember when scottish hydro electric started up their service, it was £15 for 2mbps i new it was too good to last!
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11-07-2003, 09:15
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Quote:
Originally posted by Stephen Robb
Just had a look. Much more expensive than ntl, on a par with BT.
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?? It's £5 less expensive than NTL's 1MB connection which is the comparable product, plus the upload speed is 4 times that of NTL.
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11-07-2003, 13:25
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Ever get the feeling that some prices will have to be changed in the next few months by our favorite cable operator.
Southern prices 12 Month Contract
12 month minimum term contract
Initial modem contribution of £50
Monthly Fee £29.99 inc VAT
for 1 meg
no download limit 
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11-07-2003, 13:30
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Apparantly some European country is offering 20Mbps on power line technology. I had a quick look for a link but failed to find anything, but I will keep searching. Hopefully broadband prices will start dropping soon, it's about time really.
EDIT: It was Spain
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11-07-2003, 14:29
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This is brilliant ... given that my dream is to escape the south (preferably going back to Scotland) and living somewhere rural that would almost certainly not have cable or ADSL, I would be queueing up to buy something like this.
Reading the Scottish Hydro website, it would appear that they have taken the lead in developing the techniques necessary and Southern Electric are working with them to pilot it in England. Apparently they chose Winchester because it already has ADSL and cable (some folks have all the luck!) and want to see how it fares against the competition.
Who runs the cable in Winchester though? Anyone know whether it's ntl or telewest that should be bricking themselves over this?
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11-07-2003, 14:44
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Quote:
Originally posted by towny
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Who runs the cable in Winchester though? Anyone know whether it's ntl or telewest that should be bricking themselves over this?
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ntl 
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11-07-2003, 14:48
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Quote:
Originally posted by th'engineer
Ever get the feeling that some prices will have to be changed in the next few months by our favorite cable operator.
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why would Telewest want to change thier prices hehe :P
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11-07-2003, 15:17
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There was a good thread on this in ditto.com but it's disappeared into the locked chest that was the old Knapp's Office.
PLC (or PLT) has been popping up in this country from time to time but no one has managed to stay the distance. Plenty of info via Google:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pow...UK%7CcountryGB
One of the big issues with this technology is the interference that it will cause to other services. The beeb, in particular, are not at all impressed:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/papers/
See under Spectrum Management.
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