Broadband over Gas pipelines

[TrinireturnofGamez]

 Someone invented a way to transmit wireless frequencies through gas pipes at speeds up to 10 gigabits ... with many countries having homes with gas piped to them , or gaslines traveling near cities , this could be an alternative to running wire .
http://www.nethercomm.com/headline2.htm

   your pc may soon need gas to get online :p

[TriniXaeno]

England will just love this.

They got gas pipelines galore to the homes.

[Czar]

I think it'll end up going the same route as BPL (Broadband over Power Lines)...i.e. getting to the testing phase and no further...for quite a while.

[TrinireturnofGamez]

Or you could set up wi fi/ wi max hotspots along the gas pipeline route to distribute the connection,  the problem with implementing these 'last mile ' solutions like  Gas broadband and broadband over power lines is that the countries with the technology and money to do it eg. US , UK , CANADA , don't NEED to do it , they already have widepread DSL/Cable access  and Wi-fi/Wi-max /Satellite for last mile , countries like Trinidad and other 3rd world countries are the ones who need to implement it .

[Czar]

countries like Trinidad and other 3rd world countries are the ones who need to implement it

Best of luck persuading PowerGen, bpTT, BG and the like to follow through on it...

[W1nTry]

Whilst I am sure this must have been extensively researched before testing this concept, the idea of having an electrical line run along a gas pipeline just doesn't sit right with me... now thats not discounting hte idea of Fibre along the line instead (which is prolly the case). However in a country like this its not uncommon for some baka to unearth unintentionally a pipeline or for the pipeline to get ruptured in some other stupid fashion. Also a problem they faced with Broadband over power was the broadcast nature of it. Anyways. Daz meh 2c.