This time at the [link|http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1020697|Economist].


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Engineers at Phonex have been pioneering what they call \ufffdpowerline carrier\ufffd technology for more than a decade. But earlier contraptions could only extend the range of a single modem or phone-jack, and data speeds rarely beat that of a typical dial-up connection (56 kilobits per second). With this latest class of products, the technology has matured so that it can provide high-speed data networking over power lines and compete with (even surpass) the reliability of 802.11b. In April, Phonex's $129 \ufffdNeverWire 14\ufffd unit will hit the shops, making it the first member of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance\ufffda coalition of 90 firms developing powerline networking devices that operate over a unified standard\ufffdto ship a product that attains genuine Ethernet speeds (10-100 megabits per second).