michaelk
join:2003-01-01
Cincinnati, OH
| Austin BPL...
I have RoadRunner, but got BPL as a secondary service to host my slingbox because of the synchronous speeds. It sucks, I mean it's great for the slingbox but as primary broadband service, NOT!!! 3 Mbps synchronous, and God forbid if you care about not being a slave to the electric company and use compact flourescent lights, there is only 1 outlet in my entire 3 story house that the tech could find that it would get more than 500k down!!! Strangely it uploads at the 3 Mbps rate, but there is so much noise on the line because of the lighting that I had to make a 50 foot run from the basement to the router. I just canceled the service, I'm just happy to use the slingbox on my LAN. No thanks. |
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r81984
Fair and Balanced
Premium
join:2001-11-14
St John'S, NL | Why wouldn't you just run a brand new highly shielded line power line to your modem, or better yet just install a outlet right where your power comes in and install your modem there, then run a 50 ethernet cable to your router. |
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
 ·Comcast
| reply to michaelk
thanks for posting - this is the first time I have seen anyone post about BPL service.
I don't know if your experience is typical, but it almost sounds as if the service is not read for primetime. This is what I post for any article about BPL:
A twentieth century technology that will never be more than a niche player, if that. I don't ever expect to see a major deployment of BPL; I'm not sure there will ever be a successful, lasting deployment of BPL. |
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mr sean
Professional Infidel
Premium,ExMod 2001-07
join:2001-04-03
N. Absentia
clubs:
| There is some activity in the forums regarding BPL, a couple of catch-all examples (which include some additional links):
»[PLC] Anyone using Broadband-Over-Powerlines?
»Any BPL customers here to report?
Its still in its infancy, but I agree that it may remain simply a niche player.
Hard to say how it will finally achieve commercially viable deployment. But the municipal services angle is one option.
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wvcaver
Premium
join:2005-04-17
Millersburg, OH | reply to michaelk
hahahaha thats funny as hell |
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