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Thread ID: 139193	2015-03-25 08:10:00	WiFi in 1926	Terry Porritt (14)	PC World Chat

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1397315	2015-03-25 08:10:00	Here is how it was done. "If your house has electric light a Dubilier Ducon enables you to do two things:- 1. To run your set without erecting an aerial 2. To use your set in any room you like The Ducon converts your electric wiring system into an aerial. All you do is to plug it into the lamp socket, and connect it to your set according to the instructions. " This device was priced at only 10 shillings :) From Meccano Magazine, February 1926	Terry Porritt (14)
1397316	2015-03-25 09:13:00	Interesting history, did this mean people lived in the dark while enjoying wireless. Any idea what lighting wiring was like then? I do recall thick and not very flexible copper wiring in very old houses, but it may have been even different then. I had always wondered if it were possible to make all electrical wiring in your house act as an aerial for WiFi to eliminate all dead spots in and around the house. So far only turned up networking through your sockets that can plug in to your modem and wall socket and at another point have it networked to a WiFi device or just a network adaptor to send/receive your net over your electrical wiring eliminating the need of running Ethernet cable all over the place. Cheers, KK	Kame (312)
1397317	2015-03-26 04:38:00	Interesting history, did this mean people lived in the dark while enjoying wireless. KK Nope, the lights would have stayed on, or off, as required. There was potentially some danger involved, and it looks like there was a switch on the device to allow the user to select whichever conductor provided the better signal, especially if the light was off. Dubilier was a well known capacitor manufacturer ('condensors' back in those days) and this device is likely no more than an HV capacitor from live and/or neutral to tap RF off the electrical wiring. I've seen similar items advertised in recent times using power lines for data transfer. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
1397318	2015-03-26 08:20:00	In the olden days we used to wrap copper wire around small transistor radios to give them a better reception.	Bobh (5192)
1397319	2015-03-26 09:31:00	In the olden days we used to wrap copper wire around small transistor radios to give them a better reception. Well you are certainly not going to have a wireless to show for your efforts ;)	R2x1 (4628)
1397320	2015-03-26 21:25:00	I had always wondered if it were possible to make all electrical wiring in your house act as an aerial for WiFi to eliminate all dead spots in and around the house. wouldnt work, Aerials length is tuned to wavelength of the Frequency , 2.4G aerials are quite short . (....waiting for technical corrections on my comments....) :p Maybee use house wiring as a carrier & plug the tuned aerial into the socket , Im sure if it was that simple it would be commonly used by now those rat & mozzie repellers make claims of using the house wiring as an aerial for their magic box .	1101 (13337)
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