"Dennis Ferguson" wrote in message
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Note that this is not a unique attribute, it is about the same situation
as that which exists for broadband Internet service via cable modems. I
assume that BPL would use the same protection techniques (mostly
depending on control of the receiving equipment, I think). This seems
to mostly work, I very seldom hear complaints about the security of
people's cable connections.

Dennis Ferguson


Yeah, I'm almost totally ignorant on this one. I sorta assumed the cable
companies set aside some bandwidth for internet access, and trapped it out
for non-internet cable subscribers. I suppose such a thing could be done in
a BPL community, but I picture power line traps being far more expensive
than cable traps, and installing thousands of 100A+ traps would get pretty
expensive, not to mention the public relation problems of cutting the power
of non subscribers so the traps could be installed. The easy way out is not
to trap anything. And considering the BPL folks attitude about radiation,
they won't do anything they aren't forced to. And they won't be working out
problems in advance, but as they come along.

Frank Dresser