n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
 ·Optimum Online
| The BPL Spin Machine
Obviously the BPL folks are trying to drum business in light of the rash of failed trials. Sadly there are company's that are still nibbling or showing interest. Here on Long Island, it was announced a few weeks ago that the Long Island Power Authority, a government entity no less, was looking into the possibility of offering BPL here. Frankly, this is one of the last places on Earth where BPL is needed. We already have Optimum Online running at 10Mbit/sec (possibly upgrading to 20MBit/sec in the not too distant future), we have very good DSL penetration and Verizon FiOS is being rolled out all over. BPL is going to compete with these two technologies? Give me a break. The only "winners" should LIPA decide to go forward will be the BPL equipment manufacturers, who I am sure do not give refunds on used equipment, and the power company technicians who install it. The ratepayers and taxpayers will take it in the wallet.
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w2co
join:2003-07-16
Longmont, CO
| As you say there is no need for a limping technology like BPL in the areas that already have much greater methods of broadband technologies. Yet all they do is deploy this crap as "test sites" in these areas that already have broadband. I thought they were supposed to deploy the test sites in remote areas? Oh forgot they would have to install 15000 repeaters to reach 30 miles out, and then the reliability would most certainly get killed by all the possible ingress to it in that much of a distance, another thing the companies pushing this crap fail to research. Oh well BPL people get a life and I hate to tell you but I told you so...
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