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To: Charlie Tuna who wrote (9131)	7/11/1998 1:48:00 AM
From: Rob S.	Respond to of 11555

There is a standard that is out or near being out that defines a network using the household power wiring. There are some products on the market already but I'm not sure if they comply with the standard. The only thing new about this standard is that it communicates at around 1.5 MB/s and integrated chips are now available to make it cheaply. Wireless networks are also starting to become practical to mass produce for home & small office use. They will still probably be more expensive than the power-line units, although that could change if the market for them takes off. PCs and peripherals are fairly slow to evolve new communications and interface technologies. Take for instance USB (Universal Serial Bus) and FireWire (IEEE 14 something or other), this type of technology has been around for years but has just recently been adopted for the WINTEL PC and is now available and cheap. But when I tried to find inkjet printers that have USB, I found none of the popular new units have it yet. So much for the evolution of technology and getting away from the troublesome interupt-driven PC ports and interfaces.