WirePlus Broadband uses phone lines to extend WiFi range

Want to extend your WiFi signal to remote corners of your home? If one company has its way, you may soon be doing it using your home's phone lines, instead of with repeaters, extenders and
cantennas. Florida-based SercoNet has developed a system it calls WirePlus Broadband, which recruits your phone lines to act as super-antennas, carrying your signal from one access point to the next. It may sound like the powerline-based
HomePlug, but SercoNet insists the technology is completely different. "It is strictly RF, physical layer," the company's Mike Harnack told WiFi Planet. "It's like an extension of the antenna... the copper is the medium that the shifted signal flies on." The company is currently working with router makers on possible prototypes, and hopes to be able to announce some partnerships by CES next January.
Pricing is expected to be as low as $99 for a two-unit package, well below the price of two
high-end HomePlug switches, though it's unclear what kind of throughput these will really be able to offer.