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February 21st 04, 03:16 AM
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(Brian Kelly) writes:
Power lines used for BPL will have very significant losses per block
or however you might measure it and there is a distinct limit to the
number of amplifiers which can be used per injection point. Bottom
line is that BPL won't work unless it's periodically and frequently
fed by a fiber optic or cable TV type "primary source", a backbone.
The BPL system currently being installed in Manassas VA will make use
of a municipally-funded fiber optic backbone.
Of course - BPL is just a way of getting that "last mile". Avoids having to go
into people's houses and businesses and run wire, which is a serious cost and
liability issue, to say nothing of consumer resistance. Putting bypass couplers
on the pole pig is easy compared to running wire in a customer's house.
The big sell points are "no installatio! Just plug it in!" and the extreme
portability. "Every power socket in your house is now a broadband internet
connection" - "easier than dialup!" etc.
Of course the same is true of the various 802.11 alphabet soup systems coming
out too - and those are faster!
The simple fact of the matter is that BPL will not happen in the
boonies unless it's fed into the boonies on some sort of backbone. So
if Farmer Jones doesn't already have cable TV, DSL/ISDN or fiber optic
service available the probability of Jones getting a BPL feed is nil.
Exactly. And for the same reasons: the customer density is too low.
Y'know, all those deregulators need some history lessons. A lot of
infrastructure was built as govt' projects or as govt. edicts because the ROI
was too low. Remember the REA - Rural Electrification Authority?
The FCC commissioners who are hyping BPL are either stupid beyond
belief or are lying thru their teeth.
None of them are engineers - they're "regulators". And they're tasked by your
buddy Shrub to come up with whizbang technocures like hydrogen fuel and BPL.
Right!
And Ralph Nader is going to run again. GEts worse every day.
73 de Jim, N2EY
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