Re: Whole-house surge suppressors ( was Re: Home office design )

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Art Tostaine, Jr. wrote:
>    6. Re: Whole-house surge suppressors ( was Re: Home office
>       design ) (Art Tostaine, Jr.)
>
> date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:27:49 -0400
>
> I'm interested in your power line networking.  I live in the middle of
> nowhere, and I sometimes get mad at speed of wireless.  Since I bought a
> spec home here, I didn't get a chance to run cables everywhere.
>
> My Electric Co Op is beta testing Broadband over power lines.  Since I'm
> stuck with satellite here, I pray they let me have it.  They said I 
> might be
> able to participate in spring 2007 

Art:

Apologies if confusion came from my wording (and for my late response).

The "powerline" networking should more properly be referred to as "home 
powerline" networking. As much as I could use networking out through the 
grid, I'm only using it inside my house to connect a couple areas that 
aren't otherwise cabled. My AS/400, for example, connects to a switch 
which is then connected into a house power outlet. At the other end, 
another outlet connects to a wireless router.

The powerline units do allow a lot of quick flexibility. I'm not at all 
sure how the whole-house surge suppressor affects any 'leakage' out to 
nearby homes; I recall long-ago bits relating to how signals tend to get 
blocked by units in general. We also have the local distribution box 
just on our side of the line coming down the "road". Two other homes are 
served by that box, neither of which I'd expect to even imagine 
networking was possible in such a way. No homes past us in the other 
direction(s).

Tom Liotta