Apparatus and method of displaying power line communication channel information

A method of displaying power line communication (PLC) channel information, comprising:

• performing channel estimation of a PLC channel, and determining, based on the channel estimation, channel information on the PLC channel including a bandwidth of the PLC channel between two points which is available for a user in a PLC network including the PLC channel, using a channel information determination unit;
• and
• displaying the channel information to the user, using a channel information displaying unit,
• wherein the channel estimation is performed before installing PLC devices on the two points.

A computer-readable medium having recorded thereon a computer program for executing a method of displaying power line communication (PLC) channel information, comprising:

• performing PLC channel estimation and determining channel information including a bandwidth between two points which is available for a user in a power line communication network;
• and
• displaying the channel information to the user,
• wherein the channel estimation is performed before installing PLC devices on the two points.

A method of constituting a power line communication (PLC) network comprising a PLC channel between two points in the PLC network, the method comprising:

• performing channel estimation of the PLC channel, and determining channel information on the PLC channel including a bandwidth of the PLC channel which is available for PLC between the two points, using a channel information determination unit;
• and
• installing two PLC network devices on the PLC channel based on the determined channel information,
• wherein the channel estimation is performed before installing PLC devices on the two points.