hdman
Flt Rider
Premium
join:2003-11-25
Appleton, WI
 ·AT&T Midwest
 ·Alltel Axess
| Looks good....slightly
The only problem I see is that this only works on LV, which means they have to go wireless ALL THE WAY TO YOUR POLE. This does not use a MV (Medium Voltage) backplane at all. The problem is that just about ANY wiring in front of you home is MV, which is 600V to 15KV. Typically, in front of your home is 4160V. So I agree with the statement, if they are coming wireless all the way to pole in front of your house, why not just go wireless the WHOLE way into the home???
HDman
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blahblehmeh
@dilyns.com | Coming all the way to the home means expensive end user equitment (radio, ant etc). With this bpl solution you only have to sell (or rent) them a modem. |
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hdman
Flt Rider
Premium
join:2003-11-25
Appleton, WI
·AT&T Midwest
·Alltel Axess
| But they would have to put the transformer pad mounted receiver on each transformer and there is typically one transformer per house!! It may be cheaper for the consumer, but if they have to put the expensive part on the pole anyway, for each house, they will have to pass that cost to us somehow.....
HDMan
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RadioDoc
Sortofadog
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
Chicago, IL
·AT&T Midwest
| One transformer per house in "the country", maybe, but in more densely populated areas it's more like 5-10 houses per transformer. You are almost certainly not going to see this outside of metro areas.
Either way it's not a terribly efficient network solution. As Karl pointed out above, this is more for internal utility management purposes with "the internets" riding along on idle bandwidth. |
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rmrper
@169.144.x.x
| If it's not coming to rural areas why should anyone care? I live in a metro area, and there is a transformer in my neighbors front yard. They do serve 10 houses or so each, but guess what? I already have Comcast HSI, I can get Verizon DSL, and later this year I should be able to get FIOS. So, I'd have to agree that this may be more useful for utility management than anything. |
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