RE: Bright Lights! Bright Lights!

CobraBoy (tbyars@earthlink.net)
Thu, 28 May 1998 12:19:30 -0700


At 11:49 AM -0700 5/28/98, Gregory Alan Bolcer came up with this:

> I don't see it so much as a bug as more of a feature.
> Think of the possibilities. Everywhere there is a light,
> you have a data stream.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/ns/980530/nlamppost.html
>
> The light programme By Mark Ward
>
> ultrafast internet access via the electricity
> mains...it sounded too good to be true, and
> perhaps it was. Trials of the scheme in
> Manchester have hit an embarrassing snag.
> Streetlamps using the same power supply as Net surfers are
> acting as aerials and broadcasting downloaded data as
> high-frequency radio waves.

There you have it Rohit.

Tim

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