wolfox
Gentle Wolfox
join:2002-11-27
Dunnellon, FL
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Re: BPL is Faux Broadband
Well, there you go - if your BPL solution borrows some of that there fiber's broadband, you will blow everything away as far as speed is concerned! Sans interference as a result if they use that fiber. But still, you did not answer the question of where your BPL provisioned friends are in relation to town, and cross that with your distance from town. I am really curious to hear about that. I am surprised that power companies did not already use their "right of way" on their own utility poles and lines to string up a fiber loop network. *THAT* is the stuff to build BPL on, no free radiating wires.
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Samwoo
join:2002-02-15
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
1 edit | reply to Ryno
do you know how the latency is on bpl? |
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Ryno
The Wanderer
Premium
join:2001-04-07
Danielsville, PA
 ·Verizon Online DSL
 ·RCN CABLE
| reply to wolfox
2 way cable ends at the house next to me(Though about 950' away) They refuse to extend it.
Verizon RT about a mile from me(fiber fed for a decade), no tech has even heard rumors about them providing DSL through it.
Electric company did away with meter readers, it is read automatically and sent back via fiber. I can see the maps with fiber runnings all around the valley I live in.
BPL, is my best shot. No it won't be 7MB down, or fios. But I can live with BPL if they provide 2/3 of the 1.5 up and down. This should be no poblem as the people I know with it are getting the full 1.5 |
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Ryno
The Wanderer
Premium
join:2001-04-07
Danielsville, PA
1 edit | reply to wolfox
oops, double post thx to the non responsive one way cable internet I have. |
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wolfox
Gentle Wolfox
join:2002-11-27
Dunnellon, FL
| reply to Ryno
And therein lies the problem. What on Earth makes you think that if the cable plant head end or the Telco's DSLaM is not wired for broadband in your neighborhood - that BPL will solve it? Where do your friends live in relation to town or city center? Where do you?
Cable and DSL have their limits too on wire distance. Especially if cable does not penetrate your neck of the sticks, BPL which costs so much more on the home to implement in wide area deployment certainly will not.
I said it before, and I will say it again - BPL is a smoke-n-mirror one dog and one pony show. People will get bored with it when it does not scale according to plan and promises and move on.
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