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• @Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2026-09-11 22:22

  Powerline networking is a thing and a great choice for bringing hardline connections to remote parts of a house. I had a shed that had electric but my WiFi couldn’t reach and a cheap powerline kit and a spare OpenWRT and it worked a treat.

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• @queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-09-11 22:48

  I think all power lines should have a communications protocol. Not every device has to use them, and they’d be lower bandwidth than data-only lines, but I think the era of data-communicating appliances is here to stay, and it’d be better they go over the wires we have rather than clogging up the wireless spectrum. Within a single building for sure, but even neighborhood lines could carry some data I bet. I wonder if and how that would work. Gonna have to learn some more about electricity and grid infrastructure.

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