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February 22nd 04, 01:02 AM

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(Brian Kelly) writes:

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In article ,

(Brian Kelly) writes:

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!

I'm not up to speed on the methods which will be used to transport the
802.11 type signals into buildings

It's called "radio". aka "wireless". The modems/routers/hubs have these funny
things called "antennas" on them and so do the boxes out on the utility pole.

but I assume it'll be carried over
existing cable TV wiring to a Part 15 tranciever/modem somewhere in
the building. Or something along those lines.

No wires at all. You been to Microcenter lately?

Makes a helluva lot
more sense economically and in all other respects vs. BPL. In
particular they won't trash the HF spectrum like BPL does.

It's also faster, more robust, and even more portable. Put a PCIMCIA cardmodem
in your lapper and surf anywhere.

I undertand
that they would use a band of frequencies which would "endanger" our
2.4 Mhz allocations. But like I posted somewhere else earlier, I'll
trade 2.4 Mhz for 14 Mhz any day.

Some of them do and that's not good. Others are in the 5 GHz region. What is
most important is that we can have a protected slice of GHz *and* those
technologies can exist.

The current show-stopper for the 802.11 crowd seems to be a lack of
standards and coordination. Which is very typical of fledgling
technologies, everybody wants their pet system to become the alpha
technology. And eventually evolutionary forces will do what they've
always done and some 802.11 type system or another will be ready to
market on a global scale.

BINGO! I knew you'd get it. Just like VHS smacked Beta's rear years ago.

hen that finally happens I expect that what
little bits and pieces of BPL might actually still be around will be
buried and forgotten. Quicky.

Hopefully they'll not get off the ground. But it still has to be fought because
once they get established they can set a precedent for other bad technologies.

As as far as serving pore stranded Farmer Jones' needs if he's really
hot for broadband access all he has to do is sign up for dish service.
Which has been out there for *years*.

The reason Farmer Jones doesn't have DSL or a cable modem is the same reason he
won't have BPL: not enough customers per mile.

None of them are engineers - they're "regulators".

They're bush-league (pun intended)politicians as usual and don't have
to be engineers, their job is listen to the FCC technical staff,
that's why the FCC has technical experts on the payroll.

But they don't have to do what the techies say.

As if they
care about any "technical details" like obliterating HF radio with
BPL, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. sed "Just DO it" and that's that.

Like code waivers from Papa Bush.

I've
been wondering if Commerce is being leaned on about watering down the
upcoming NTIA BPL study. I'll just bet it is.

Who knows?

And they're tasked by your
buddy Shrub

You jest!

Not at all. Just good ol
thousand-points-of-light-republican-coat-no-millionaire-left-behind-trickl
e-down business as usual.....

to come up with whizbang technocures like hydrogen fuel and BPL.
Right!

And Ralph Nader is going to run again. GEts worse every day.

Comic relief. Beats Ross Perot.

Ralph Nader is Shrub's best friend. Without him, Algore would be in the White
House.

73 de Jim, N2EY