BPremium,MVM
join:2000-10-28 | But was it every actually TRIALED?
The first article, from the Finger Lakes Times, is so filled with question marks (at least in Mozilla) that it's quite difficult to read.
The second article is much better.
But NEITHER article says that trial ever actually BEGAN!
It sounds more as if they just decided against doing it because of the possible interference issue and miscellaneous pressures from all that publicity.
Does anyone know if even a single bit was ever pushed over power lines in Penn Yann?
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 tenbase
join:2000-07-19
Alexandria, VA | Yes.
»New BPL Trials
»www.arrl.org/news/features/2004/···/3/?nc=1
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BPremium,MVM
join:2000-10-28 |
Thanks, tenbase. However, the first article apparently was BEFORE any physical deployment, and the second article, while it mentions equipment and interference, doesn't really say that any data was passed. (It's dated April First!)
But it does appear from that second ham radio article that some equipment testing went on -- thank you!
RF interference aside, I wonder what their data testing results were like.
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BPL will fail for one simple reason. Economics! The inherently noisy medium induces slow speeds. Although they talk about the 'last mile solution,' the last mile will never be discussed, much less implemented.
Do the math. $30/mo x 1000 users is only $30K/mo. A deployment able to handle 1000 users will cost an exceptional amount of money to maintain. There are far cheaper methods of getting dial-up speeds than BPL.
The companies 'rolling out BPL' have started without a plan. They get in up to their necks in hardware and figure it's time to make a financial plan. Guess what? It won't cash flow. |
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