NetEng_Dude
join:2004-07-17 | BPL is Faux Broadband
BPL is destined to be the broken-down bus blocking traffic on the information super highway. It just makes no sense for local politicos and utilities to pour taxpayer money down the drain on third-rate, proprietary Internet technology. |
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Ryno
The Wanderer
Premium
join:2001-04-07
Danielsville, PA | I would get it.
I can not get any decent broadband where I am.
I know 4 people who have BPL and every one of them is satisfied. 2 are gamers, one a p2p guy. |
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wolfox
Gentle Wolfox
join:2002-11-27
Dunnellon, FL
| And therein lies the problem. What on Earth makes you think that if the cable plant head end or the Telco's DSLaM is not wired for broadband in your neighborhood - that BPL will solve it? Where do your friends live in relation to town or city center? Where do you?
Cable and DSL have their limits too on wire distance. Especially if cable does not penetrate your neck of the sticks, BPL which costs so much more on the home to implement in wide area deployment certainly will not.
I said it before, and I will say it again - BPL is a smoke-n-mirror one dog and one pony show. People will get bored with it when it does not scale according to plan and promises and move on.
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sorne guy
@milwwi.ameritech | reply to Ryno
i'd buy it just to piss off all the ham operators that ramble on and on about 911 and how emergency services need them and and blah blah blah
if possible, i'd like turn up the interference, maybe with some steel rails under my lawn |
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wolfox
Gentle Wolfox
join:2002-11-27
Dunnellon, FL
| What a sad, small man you must be to do things in the venue of upsetting your neighbors and precipitating angst amongst your peers. Doubly so for being anonymous. Enjoy your minuscule, heartless existence my friend...
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Ryno
The Wanderer
Premium
join:2001-04-07
Danielsville, PA
1 edit | reply to wolfox
oops, double post thx to the non responsive one way cable internet I have. |
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Ryno
The Wanderer
Premium
join:2001-04-07
Danielsville, PA
 ·Verizon Online DSL
 ·RCN CABLE
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2 way cable ends at the house next to me(Though about 950' away) They refuse to extend it.
Verizon RT about a mile from me(fiber fed for a decade), no tech has even heard rumors about them providing DSL through it.
Electric company did away with meter readers, it is read automatically and sent back via fiber. I can see the maps with fiber runnings all around the valley I live in.
BPL, is my best shot. No it won't be 7MB down, or fios. But I can live with BPL if they provide 2/3 of the 1.5 up and down. This should be no poblem as the people I know with it are getting the full 1.5 |
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aztecnology
O Rly?
Premium
join:2003-02-12
Murrieta, CA | reply to NetEng_Dude
I would only consider it as a last resort... |
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Samwoo
join:2002-02-15
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
1 edit | reply to Ryno
do you know how the latency is on bpl? |
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wolfox
Gentle Wolfox
join:2002-11-27
Dunnellon, FL
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Well, there you go - if your BPL solution borrows some of that there fiber's broadband, you will blow everything away as far as speed is concerned! Sans interference as a result if they use that fiber. But still, you did not answer the question of where your BPL provisioned friends are in relation to town, and cross that with your distance from town. I am really curious to hear about that. I am surprised that power companies did not already use their "right of way" on their own utility poles and lines to string up a fiber loop network. *THAT* is the stuff to build BPL on, no free radiating wires.
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nguyen27
join:2003-05-14
Quincy, MA
| reply to NetEng_Dude
said by NetEng_Dude  :BPL is destined to be the broken-down bus blocking traffic on the information super highway. It just makes no sense for local politicos and utilities to pour taxpayer money down the drain on third-rate, proprietary Internet technology. BPL isnt a faux broadband, but given it enough time, you will see the out come. I would imagine people who hunger for broadband, but DSL is outta reach and Cable is just ripping off for 60-70 a month instead of 30, they will go for it.
Just wait and see. |
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hrobins
Premium
join:2000-10-15
Regina, SK
clubs:
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I agree with Wolfox, what a sad man. Thing is if you turn up the interference, The FCC would come after you. Ham Radio is under part 23 if I recall right. BPL is under part 13???
We have to be liceased to use our part of the radio band, and ham radio has a higher prioitry then BPL. In other words, you cause interference, not only would the BPL be turned off you would be facing some serious fines.
Howard Robinson
KG4GSN/VE5GSN
ARES/Skywarn |
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5mbps-1gen
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I sat in on a BPL demo and ran a test - showed just under 5 mbps using current generation eqpt. Next gen coming out in 1st qtr 2005 will get avg 25 -30 mbps to home. |
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szoruba
join:2004-07-25
Tinley Park, IL
|  reply to sorne guy
Go BPL! The sooner, the better. And don't trash people who do public service.
If you caused such interference, you would be breaking an FCC rule, which is punishable by fines and/or prison time.
A ham radio operator was able to communicate during a hurricane disaster (when the phone lines were down) and able to direct medical assistance to me. He saved my life!!!
How stupid can someone be to post their illegal intenions?
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