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Broadband Over Power Lines: Coming Soon?
Decaffeinated Jedi writes "With technology improving and costs droppings, News.com offers up an interesting report on renewed interest in delivering broadband Internet access via power lines (a technology known as BPL). Earlier this month, the Federal Communications Commission proposed a new set of rules for utility companies that might want to offer BPL services as a way to 'encourage broadband for the entire United States' -- particularly hard-to-reach rural areas. As the article notes, EarthLink has already started testing BPL service in using power lines leased in Wake County, North Carolina. Could cable and DSL face a new competitor in the broadband market in the near future?"
And of course we know The Amateur Radio Relay League is a perfectly neutral and uninterested observer in this. Oh wait...
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Could cable and DSL face a new competitor in the broadband market in the near future?
Let's hope so, I would be love to see SBC and Comcast go out of business (or at least shut down their internet division). They might try to brag about having the worlds most solid network, or some crap, but customer service is a biggy too, and they suck at that. The fact that they extort their users into paying higher fees (or subscribing to a different service) is another thing I hate. Who knows though, BPL providers will probably be just as bad.
Which means that therefore, I guess, I somehow lost the argument?
/. that I've ever seen. LOL! You're a lost treasure of stupidity!!! LOL! If we listen to dolts like you, we wouldn't have cars or airplanes. Please specifically state the technology in question which qualifies as snake oil. While you randomly walk on topics which have no bearing, please, state, specifically, why BPL is snakeoil. Please. I've already stated why you're an idiot. Anyone with a brain agrees. Notice a stranger wondered in and spotted it right off. Now, specifically back up your statement. What technology, in development, as it relates to the original article, is snake oil. Since it's obviously not the technology that you mention, 1, how does it relate (thus you being offtopic), and 2, why does an unrelated article make the original post snake oil. Your obvious lack of ability to logically attack something is profound. If you can't logically connect the dots here, I don't think we have anything else to talk about, unless you just want to ensure everyone understands your gross stupidity.
No, it means you're either too dumb to understand the moderation system or too new to know better than to make statements, such as you made. The fact that I have to spell out, with such an obvious statement, pretty squarely points the needle on the, "you're an idiot", rather than the, "you're new", indicator.
I see.
Sadly, you don't, or I wouldn't be here typing again. What a dolt.
Literally tons of pointless research has been applied toward developing devices to make this happen (the same one could say about e.g. lossless random data compression, reusable key one time pad cryptography, homeopathy, perpetuum mobile, and any other snake oil)
LOL. This is awesome stuff! Thank you for making EXACTLY my point. You are one of the biggest idiots/trolls on
There is a flaw in your reasoning here, even if somehow subtle, at least much subtler than those in other parts of your post. You say that copper is everywhere but it does not mean we can use it.
Really. I always hate it when physics shows me to be right and you wrong. Dang it. Hate it when physics means I'm right, yet I'm flawed. You are a dolt. LOL! This IS awesome stuff! Project after project shows that BPL has potential. The biggest problem seems to stem from RFI being emitted. The secondary issue seems to be getting it past transformers. I say secondary because it seems people are having success in addressing this issue. People seem to think they can get around it. In fact, in many experienments, they have, only to be shut down by RFI problems. I guess science, logic and physics seem to support that you are an idiot, which doesn't seem to know anything about what you are talking about.
is that everywhere when we have both copper lines and power lines it is always cheaper and easier, as well as having more bandwidth, to use the copper line.
Good thing you are an idiot, which obviously has no idea what you're talking about, otherwise, the laws of physics and economics would change before our eyes.
You are the first dolt, to ever make my foe list. What an idiot.