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Does the electrical grid acompany network lines?

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EPAIII:
What makes me think that? How about RFI when I drive under or along side those lines. It just plain sounds like digital data.




--- Quote from: tom66 on April 19, 2024, 10:39:12 am ---What makes you think power companies modulate power lines at all with high speed data?  There are some installations in the UK that used to put high frequency carriers on mains electricity feeds to switch over timeswitched meters, and street lights, but most of those installs have gone away because besides very low data rate stuff it isn't practical (it's essentially just 'turn on now' and 'turn off now').   Nowadays RF stuff is used, like smart meters or LoRaWAN.  Powerline ethernet kit might go from one house to another if they are on the same phase, but it won't make it up the street, because the attenuation of the cable is too great at high frequencies, and there's too much interference to reliably send data.

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