Topic 'It was worth a try' in forum '' - dslreports.com http://www.dslreports.com/forum/It-was-worth-a-try-21318755 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:45:41 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:45:41 EDT Re: It was worth a try http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-It-was-worth-a-try-21320575 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-It-was-worth-a-try-21320575 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:02:10 EDT Re: It was worth a try http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-It-was-worth-a-try-21320263 said by titoyay222:

I'm not sure what they mean by failed though... according to the current site they are expanding to Texas. It's a new section they added recently. So is the FCC going to be stopping this tech. or what?
They sold the Texas network in Dallas to a power company who is now going to use all of the millions of dollars of fiber to.....read meters remotely. Yep that's right. 100 Mbps of how many watts people are using.

So while I have 100 Mbps to my power meter, I have the awesome choices of $50 per month for 784Kbps from Time Warner or $90 per month for 784Kbps dsl from AT&T (and they throw in a phone line so I can call my cell phone and find it when its lost inside the house.) Free enterprise rules!!!

We'll miss you pipe dream BPL. You were our only hope. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-It-was-worth-a-try-21320263 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:00:00 EDT Re: It was worth a try http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-It-was-worth-a-try-21318862 said by titoyay222:

... So is the FCC going to be stopping this tech. or what?
It's not up to the FCC to stop or allow BPL, they (really Powell, then Martin) were just pushing this as proof there was "competition". BPL simply seems to be failing in the marketplace, except for a few existing deployments.

the FCC touted BPL as the "third broadband provider" to compete with telco and cable; it never was and never will be anything other than a niche product in a few markets.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-It-was-worth-a-try-21318862 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:37:26 EDT Re: It was worth a try http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-It-was-worth-a-try-21318821
It's a good service whenever I used it. Pings were usually low in the mid 30's. On occasion it would have lag spikes up to 80 or so. I'm not sure what was up with that.

I'm not sure what they mean by failed though... according to the current site they are expanding to Texas. It's a new section they added recently. So is the FCC going to be stopping this tech. or what?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-It-was-worth-a-try-21318821 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:28:44 EDT It was worth a try http://www.dslreports.com/forum/It-was-worth-a-try-21318755
The important thing is that BPL didn't get past the trial stage, once all the problems with it was clear. It took a lot of protests and complaints, but things turned out right this time.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/It-was-worth-a-try-21318755 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:16:39 EDT