Lepriapus
join:2002-02-01
Atlanta, GA | Rates dropping!
If this were to happen, would it fall under Utilities regulations, there by keeping the price reasonable, and does anyone have a theoretical top speed? |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| said by Lepriapus  :
If this were to happen, would it fall under Utilities regulations, there by keeping the price reasonable, and does anyone have a theoretical top speed?
Rates will NOT go down.
While the basic delivery of electricity is regulated, not the extra services. Same with telco's. The dial tone is regulated but not DSL, Caller ID, Call Waiting, etc. Plus, there is nothing there anyhow so where is the incentive to keep rates down? |
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w2co
join:2003-07-16
Longmont, CO
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"If this were to happen, would it fall under Utilities regulations, there by keeping the price reasonable, and does anyone have a theoretical top speed?"
I'm sorry to inform you that once this technology is deployed, and they find out what a dog it is, you the customers of the power co's will pay for it by price increases, extra taxes etc. The companies will need to pay for the cost of all the equipment and manpower required to install BPL, and then after it is proved to be a big downfall, to repay the investors first. Where do you think that money will come from? From the customer base of course.
The theoretical top speed is around 1.5Mbit/s with only minimal user load. As the userload increases and things like atmospheric conditions, solar disturbances, unintentional ingress from licensed services in the same spectrum, skipzone signal strength increases, to name a few will cause it to be reduced to a crawl - if you're still connected at all. All these things have still to be studied, some of which may take years to demonstrate properly, but they are pushing it on the ill-informed as fast as possible. BPL is bad technology - period, and the companies responsible are just trying to get their wasted developement money back from from the huge un-knowing customer base the power co's have.. |
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markopoleo
join:2003-04-02
Bonne Terre, MO | Wow, I never new someone could post so much rubbish. Good job on such a feat!
solar flares. hehe good stuff |
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w2co
join:2003-07-16
Longmont, CO
| "I never new someone could post so much rubbish"
Oh well glad you like it. I will fight for my licensed right to use the HF bands and no garbage failed technology will take it away from me without a fight. I personally have thousands of dollars in collection of radio equipment through my many years in radio along with extensive knowledge of the behavior of the HF spectrum. If you don't like that then you need to retake physics 101 because any engineer with half a brain knows that you can't put a wideband RF signal on an open wire and expect it to stay on the wire - IT WILL RADIATE! Or did you go to school? |
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rf_engineer
join:2003-08-04
USA
| reply to markopoleo
said by markopoleo :
Wow, I never new someone could post so much rubbish. Good job on such a feat!
solar flares. hehe good stuff
Markopoleo, I haven't seen you contribute much value to the BPL debate. Here's the last post you made regarding BPL:
Interference is not a issue, if it was you would see %90 of the current electronics, and tech gadgets pulled off the shelves as well. Heck remove every microwave's from every home why don't you.
Yes it is the same thing.
This is so totally incoherent and nonsensical, I'm not sure where to begin. 90% of the current electronics don't use miles of unshielded conductors carrying RF frequencies from 1 to 80 Mhz. Smells like rubbish to me. Oh, and BTW, you never responded to anyone that made counterpoints to this post.
W2CO has posted more information than most here. Perhaps you should argue with his points rather than attacking him, and respond to people who debunk your posts. |
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