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Earthlink Invests In Broadband Over Power Lines
prostoalex writes "Earthlink dedicated $500,000 to delivering broadband connections over power lines by launching a test drive of the technology with Progress Energy in North Carolina. 500 homes involved in the projects can sign up for promotional pricing of $20/month, which after 3 months will be changed to $50/month. No word on bandwidth provided, but Ambient Corp., which provides technology for the project and accpeted EarthLink investment, claims data rates exceeding 10 Mpbs."
Where I live we get no form of broadband and I'm getting 18KBPS connetions on average through EarthLink. I'm very happy that they've chosen to pursue this service and can't wait to sign up.
Something tells me I'm going to get my first flaimbait post :-D
I would like to point out that your 'fuck everyone else(including those 'trashy' new hams) attitude' doesn't buy you a lot of support. Perhaps if some in the AR community didn't come sound like such assholes you would get more support in congress.
You might find it a coincidence, but I can assure you it is not, that the most knowledgable people in the world on issues related to radio and especially radio interference, are radio engineers, and a good deal of them either work for, or participate in, the Amateur Radio community. It is a little more than a hobby to these guys, and a lot you have now and will have in the future (cordless phones, cell phones, TV, etc.) you owe to these people. If you stick you nose up above 1 GHz, these obsolete hobby practitioners are working and playing with the "must have" toys you will enjoy later. Where do you think the must haves that you cry about now came from?
You are a complete idiot if you think that your need to download porn shold justify wiping out a significant part of the radio spectrum.
And you are a complete fucking idiot if you think that amateur radio is holding back the internet in any way. This isn't an issue of amateur radio (or all the affected emergency services bands) interfering with the internet, it is an issue of this particular data delivery method polluting the established radio spectrum. The onus is on BPL to be RFI-free, not on the rest of the radio spectrum to accomodate an ill-conceived and improperly implemented system. BPL is known to cause interference now, and it will be a nightmare if it is widely deployed.