How Does Broadband Over Power Lines Achieve High-Speed Data Transmission?

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Broadband over power lines (BPL) utilizes existing electrical infrastructure to transmit high-speed data, achieving better rates than DSL by employing advanced modulation techniques. It operates without interfering with household appliances by using specific frequency ranges that avoid the operational bands of devices like fans and switches. BPL typically transmits data over the power line itself, utilizing the live wire, while the ground and neutral wires serve as return paths. In contrast, technologies like gigabit Ethernet achieve high speeds through a combination of increased data transfer rates and sophisticated methods such as improved encoding and error correction. Overall, BPL represents an innovative approach to leveraging power lines for broadband connectivity.
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1)Broadband over power lines... How do they work? and how can they provide such high data transmission rates compared to DSL and other network architectures? How is it that they do not interfere with other electrical appliances in the home like fans and switches? I mean don't they offer a capacitive resistance and draw the power out from the power lines? And How are they capable of such high speed? I mean, compared to LAN cables, they can have only one data line for transmission and reception right? And what line do they use for it? The power, the ground or the neutral for the transmission?

2)On a side note... Technologies like gigabit ethernet LAN's... Do they achieve their high speed by manually and just brutally increasing the data transfer rate by using newer technologies or do they use other smart methods to achieve their speeds?

- I am clueless.. Could someone please help me out... :rolleyes:
 
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