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Web Access Over Power Lines
anaesthetica writes "The CSMonitor is reporting that power companies may now be able to break into the internet provider market, giving consumers a third option, outside of telephone and cable companies. From the article, "Broadband over Power Lines (BPL), with investments from big-name companies including Google and IBM, is beginning to move beyond small trial projects to deploying systems for large communities." Earthlink may offer BPL as soon as next year. Apparently, a major source of opposition to BPL is operators of ham radios."
ooooh, how exciting! Teh Intarweb!
about interference to HAM, please note that in city areas power cables can be UNDERGROUND, therefore not interfering. These areas probably have xDSL, but an extra competitor can do miracles to your monthly broadband bill!
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I for one could care less about ham radio people being 'blocked' or have other problems with their lil hobby. So we are talking about tens of thousands of people at max figuring out that they can't talk to their buddies in Singapore from their basement in Colorado anymore? Watch me cry a big fucking river over it.
On the other hand we can rollout broadband and provide access to millions of homes that the local carriers won't touch becuase they are too remote for cable and DSL just sucks ass. Let's not forget Fiber coming out sometime soon, but who the hell thinks it's going to hit the rural areas of say Montana? I don't think so.
BPL is a cost effective solution for gov'ts to use as well as for it's citizens. Provides faster response times for it's electrical grid as well as monitoring AND gives citizens a way to cruise the net at faster speeds than their shitty 56k modems from AoHell.
The greater good is being served here, sorry Hammy's find a way to tweak your signals' y'all have been doing it long enough I'm sure you'll just add another sat dish to your home to keep the aliens from beaming down into your basement.
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...to BPL is operators of ham radios". How big of a group could that possibly be? $$ talks!
If you stop BPL because of ham radio, then you should outlaw cars because it hurts buggywhip industry (turnabout is fair play, pseudolibertarians!). ....and k the miserable little crypto-rightwingers, pseudolibertarians who mod down egalitarianism-oriented SPEECH!
eat shiat and bark at the moon
Fucking communist. Ownership rights go like this: If you create it, you own it. If it was previously unowned, and you make use of it (e.g. land grab in new territory), you own it.
The hams were there before BPL, so *these airwaves belong to hams*. Understand?
Otherwise, be sure to give up your house when there is a "market" for something that might overrun your property. Oh, "and frankly, I couldn't care less what you have to say about it."
I used to have a guy that lived in my neighborhood that broadcast his HAM with enough power that I heard him over my old fashioned wired telephone. If he broadcast while I was dialing, it screwed up my call completely. If he was busy with a monologue, I even had trouble getting a dial tone.
If this were the only HAM operator with such an attitude, I'd probably have a lot more sympathy for their plight. But I grew up in the city with an annual HAMfest. My overzealous neighbor was certainly not the only HAM operator that tended to interfere with me and my neighbors.