Review by ericjwill Location: Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH, USA Cost Contract price not specified. Great support, symetrical speed Speed can fluctuate given your wiring conditions - Double NAT After finding a good outlet - (support will help) awesome connection!

With Cincinnati Bell I could only get 1.5mbit down max... and I refuse to deal with Time Warner cable. This ISP really needs to advertise more in the Cinci area! I never knew they existed until my landlord mentioned them.

Connection is a good 3mbit down AND up, which is sweet. Ping times are very low as well and steady.

Only cons are that you are behind double NAT (have public IP address but router gets a 10.x.x.x IP address) however you can call and get all ports opened on their end making it very transparent. BPL is VERY dependent on the wiring in your home (more so than DSL and Cable from what I can tell) but their support is great at helping with this.

I am very happy with this service and was surprised when sales answered all of my tech questions before ordering. Install was painless. $35/month plus tax for 3mbit by 3mbit and dynamic IP is what I pay.

Overall: I really enjoy my service and would recommend it!

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Review by scrod7 Location: Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH, USA Cost Contract price not specified. Best ISP I have ever had I Really Enjoyed this Service

I signed up for Current.net about a year ago (when still living in Cincinnati) when I switched from TimeWarner cable to DirecTV for television. I was really tired of dealing with the horrible service TW offered, the cable internet connection was unreliable, would die during peak usage hours (of course) and it seems like every employee of TW was just an escaped mental institution patient.

Before TW I was using Zoomtown DSL which was not much better.

When Current.net came along offering BPL I signed up right away, and have never regretted it. The tech support was very good. The outlet you plug you modem into can impact performance and they can monitor my modem as I walked around the house plugging in the modem finding the best outlet.

Installation is that easy. They mailed a modem to me that looks like an AC outlet that you plug into an electrical socket. The modem has a ethernet jack that you run to the router/pc. That's all there is to it.

The service is fast and reliable (I'll try to post some specs later today). Outages are very rare and maybe due more-so to problems on my end with multiple cheap routers then issues on their end. Connection speed seems steady even during peak-usage times (5-7 pm usually in my neighborhood). There are a lot of people on my block using it already but performance seems to remain very steady, it does fluctuate but not nearly as badly as TW did.

It is very affordable at $35/mo for 3Mbs connection.

Downsides: Technology is still new. Current customers are really involved in a large scale beta test. The service area is still very limited.

I would continue BPL for as long as I could or until FiOS became available. My only regret is that I am moving to a city with no BPL (Denver). I recommend Current to anyone living in the Cincinnati area who has service availability.

Flyer00 join:2005-01-15 West Chester, OH Flyer00 Member 2007-May-4 11:54 pm Current I live in West Chester and have been waiting for Current for the past two years. I wish they would roll it out faster around town. I don't know of any neighborhoods that have it -- you are the first person I've seen who has actually used it. The reason I want it so badly is that even though the down speed is 3Mb compared to TW's 5Mb, their up speed is also 3Mb compared to TW's pathetic 384K (0.4Mb). I often work remotely and the measly upload speed TW offers just doesn't cut it. ZoomTown is only 768K up, which is not much better. Which neighborhood were you in? 2007-May-4 11:54 pm: · hey mods ·
	scrod7 join:2007-05-02 Denver, CO scrod7 Member 2007-May-8 11:06 am Re: Current I live in Oakley currently. I have never met anyone outside of Oakley who is also using the service. I also joined the beta program for their VoIP so I got that free for a year and it worked pretty well. 2007-May-8 11:06 am: · hey mods ·
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Review by danprtr5 Location: Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH, USA Cost Contract price not specified. Tech support is quick and smart (no BS answers) IMAP Webmail is slow and flaky in Firefox Overall good value

Long term, the more options available, the better price and service will be. Since BPL (Broadband over Power Lines) is relatively new, it makes sense to support them hoping the service will spread. Plus, it feels good to support a tech company that at least tries when it comes to service (unlike most broadband, cellular, and software companies).

T1 Rocky join:2002-11-15 Dallas, TX T1 Rocky Member 2007-Mar-16 1:14 pm That's awesome! Please tell us more! I think this is going to be revolutionary. Today you have a choice between either the telco (dsl) or the cable company. This will be the beginning of the triopoly. I'm in Dallas Texas and apparently TXU is stringing fiber in a couple of neighborhoods right now. This is the biggest thing to hit telecom since dsl was introduced! Please let us know how the service is and please do some speed tests. I'm extremely interested in how this evolves. Do you know how far your connection runs over the powerlines? Is there fiber on the utility poll outsude your house? I'd like to know how much they have to build out so I can get an idea of what their pentration will be like? I've heard there are 20,000 people in Cincinatti using this service. I hope they deploy this in Dallas soon! 2007-Mar-16 1:14 pm: · hey mods ·

Dax @current.net Dax Anon 2007-Apr-8 12:55 pm Current Service I saw somebody ask some questions about the Current service. The fiber typically comes into the street but not necessarily to the closest pole to a house. The modem in the house talks to a a street device called a bridge. The modem - bridge communication uses the HomePlug standard. The bridge connects between the home supply lines and the medium-voltage distribution lines (usually the wires further up the poles). Several bridge devices will talk to the same backhaul point via the medium-voltage distribution lines and the backhaul device then connects to the fiber. One major issue I have noticed with Current in Cincinnati. Their routing is *badly* broken. They issue private IPs (usually 10.x.x.x) to devices even if you get a static IP from them. The public IP is NATted to the 10.x.x.x number. The problem is that if you run (say) a web server on a static IP other Current users will be UNABLE to connect to your public service using the public IP. They can connect using the 10.x.x.x number but not the public IP. Non-Current users can connect fine using the public IP. I used to think that this problem only affected Current users connecting via the same street bridge but the problem seems to be wider than that. Current's techs said that this is a "feature" not a "fault". Yeah - right! Now grow up and configure your network properly!. Using NAT was sucky enough but if you can't configure it correctly then fire your architect and hire somebody who can do it properly! 2007-Apr-8 12:55 pm: · hey mods ·

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