Earthlink Tells FCC BPL "Not Commercially Viable"
 

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73 de Jim, N2EY

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Let's hope they are right.

I would like broadband, but not at the expense of HF. I have no real
expectation of either DSL or cable Internet ever being available on this
side of our street as long as we are the only house on this side, but BPL
would doubtless wipe out HF, as the power lines run across the front of
our lot.

A friend suggested that we should try linking into our neighbour's
wireless LAN on the other side of the road to piggyback onto their
broadband. It just might work, too. We would do it with their consent, of
course (the neighbour, not their ISP!).

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73 de Jim, N2EY

Hello, Jim

This may be a hot button for some time to come, but the reality is that BPL
is not going to offer the rural areas service any more than DSL. You need a
substantial number of subscribers in a given area to make something like
broadband "commercially viable".


Best regards from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA

This may be a hot button for some time to come, but the reality is that BPL
is not going to offer the rural areas service any more than DSL. You need a
substantial number of subscribers in a given area to make something like
broadband "commercially viable".


If you get enough customers in some small rural town to
make it pay, thing is that all those customers are going to
have to split whatever bandwidth BPL over one set of power
wires (the 3 phase around 25KV distribution wires on the
poles running into town) all among them. Say a hundred
customers downloading mp3s at the same time. Dial up will
look better....

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73 de Jim, N2EY

Hello, Jim

Greetings Jim

This may be a hot button for some time to come, but the reality is that BPL
is not going to offer the rural areas service any more than DSL. You need a
substantial number of subscribers in a given area to make something like
broadband "commercially viable".


Of course - and that's true of most broadband technologies. But the alleged
rural aspect of BPL is one of the selling points, so they're not going to admit
it's a puffball.

It is my understanding that the main limitation of DSL techniques is the length
of copper pair between the customer and the "office". So telcos have been
installing copper to fiber transitions out in the field - I believe they are
called "extenders". Main limitations are, of course, financial.

Meanwhile Ambient names ARRL as the chief opponent of BPL (that's really a
compliment, in a way) and claims ARRL is manipulating Earthlink...

Surreal.

Of course the fact that this administration supports BPL despite the facts
should come as no surprise.

73 de Jim, N2EY

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73 de Jim, N2EY

Hello, Jim

Greetings Jim

This may be a hot button for some time to come, but the reality is that
BPL
is not going to offer the rural areas service any more than DSL. You
need a
substantial number of subscribers in a given area to make something like
broadband "commercially viable".


Of course - and that's true of most broadband technologies. But the
alleged
rural aspect of BPL is one of the selling points, so they're not going to
admit
it's a puffball.

It is my understanding that the main limitation of DSL techniques is the
length
of copper pair between the customer and the "office". So telcos have been
installing copper to fiber transitions out in the field - I believe they
are
called "extenders". Main limitations are, of course, financial.

Meanwhile Ambient names ARRL as the chief opponent of BPL (that's really a
compliment, in a way) and claims ARRL is manipulating Earthlink...

Surreal.

Of course the fact that this administration supports BPL despite the facts
should come as no surprise.

73 de Jim, N2EY

Hello, Jim

Heck, if all of the active hams dug deep into their pockets, I doubt we
could make a serious ding into Earthlink, let alone the ARRL ... LOL


73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA