Users could change their main net service provider by going to the Connections section of the Internet Options folder on the Windows Control Panel, said Mr Peacock.
So far Main.net is the only firm to publicly claim the ability to push data through a transformer.
Main.net's system skips the high-voltage lines, injecting data into the grid further downstream, on medium-voltage (4, 000 to 25, 000 volts) lines.
Main.net uses a related technology called direct sequence spread spectrum, or DSSS, to send its signals down the power line.
He changed his mind two years ago when he saw a working system devised by a fledgling Israeli firm called Main.net Communications.
To counteract data loss, Main.net's cofounder and head scientist, Schaike Zalitsky , built on techniques used to beam cell phone calls through the noisy air.
Yet Main.net and its handful of competitors still face a potential showstopper: tremendous excess capacity paired with the public's unwillingness to pay up for zippy connections in the home.
Main.net has found that even in the noisiest electrical environments, such as neighborhood transformers, there are always big enough gaps in the radio spectrum for repeaters to push a signal through.
Main.net's gear already serves 10, 000 European homes at speeds of 500 kilobits a second, roughly equal to average cable and digital subscriber line (DSL) speeds, but a tenfold increase over standard dial-up modems.
Signals can make it only so far before breaking apart, so Main.net uses electronic devices called repeaters that sit on the lines and continuously catch the internet signals, recompose and bolster them, and shoot them out again.
Now it is working to hook investors up to its main markets through the net.
Unfavorable exchange rates due to a stronger U.S. dollar was the main culprit with a net -5% impact on sales growth.
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Given a still uncertain earnings environment for Wall Street titans and Main Street lenders, net buybacks that drive share counts lower could help drive overall earnings per share growth in 2013 for a handful of banks.
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The main issue was a virtual collapse of net interest margins despite having a retail deposit franchise advantage over virtually every other bank in China.
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Their digital tax products have garnered higher Net Promoter Scores than their main competitors (tax stores) and are sold at a much lower price point (around 75 percent less).
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They reckon that the Net will be one of the main ways in which people get their entertainment, so today's television companies must regard themselves as the Internet companies of the future.
The net result is that pessimism still rules on Main Street and on Wall Street.
The problem will be that in attacking this system piecemeal, which is the way politicians get at reform, they can unhinge a net that is supporting the real economies of Main Streets and High Streets the world over.
Goebbels sought control, not only of newspapers but of the main sources of public entertainment, and Mr Schultze was swept into the net.
His formula involves adding two main variables: the dealership's assets minus overall debt (also called "net tangible book value"), plus what Hall calls the "blue sky" value, equal to the dealer's pretax income times some multiple between one and six, depending on the health of the operation.
The main section is about 4 feet deep the perfect height to string up a net for a volleyball game.
His main hedge fund handily beat the market in 2012 and one of his funds scored a net return of 35%.
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The depreciation in sterling over the past year should support net exports, but the prospects for demand growth in the UK's main export markets have worsened.
The main component of the financial agreement is that Tiffany will pay Peretti 5 percent of total net sales of Peretti jewelry and other branded objects.
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This does not mean, of course, that net migration has not fallen, just that, according to some experts, the government's main method of measuring its progress is little better than a rough guess.
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