On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:27:27 GMT, Bob Miller
wrote:


As I understand, repeaters costing many thousands of dollars are
needed every mile or two along the electricity line to shoot the BPL
signal on along. There's not enough population density out in rural
areas to justify the cost.

Close...

Whilst anything is possible, the chipsets implemented and being
commonly deployed need a repeater at much much smaller intervals, eg
the DS2 chipset needs repeaters typically after about 80 metres
(~260').

The promotion of this as a total acccess solution to rural subscribers
is misleading and dishonest, the potentially profitable market is in
residential areas and triple-play more than very low density rural
rollout.



Owen
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