| A+ for this BPL news coverage Thanks to BBR for publishing this editorial! And many thanks to rf_engineer for the ongoing effort. |
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jmaloy
join:2002-06-11
Willow Springs, MO | The other side of the coin...
I live 7 miles to the nearest "gas station" 18 mile to the nearest Broadband access. I WILL NOT see broadband where I live in my lifetime. Except for Satelite in which I use right now that costs me over $60 a month @ upto 2mbs D/L with a limit of 160 mb then I get bumped down to 56kbs "Dial up" speeds with MAYBE 50 kbs U/L speeds. From what I had read from the report with the link above, I want it RIGHT NOW...like yesterday. BPL is the ONLY option for people that live out in the rural areas. |
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| You need to research this a whole lot more. There is definitely no ROI where you are. Don't expect business aware people to drop BPL repeaters every half mile wire length minimum if there is no market there; they did not do it with DSL and certainly will not do it with something a whole lot more expensive to rollout. You are however wired with telephone copper and if the FCC was not ideologically blinded by this free market and deregulation crap, proper incentives and guards would have been given to your telco to deploy DSL in light of the upcoming VOIP freight-train. If your community can get organized around a community WISP, there are various wireless solutions available. WiMax will make that commodity priced (cheap) and will be definitely available far before BPL in your area. UHF channels unlicensed services are also being deallocated for broadband delivery.
BPL is not a solution, even if it did not interfere and could deploy according to various levels or regulatory bodies. |
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