You pay your ISP for download speeds UP TO 10mbps. that UP TO is the key part. They never say that you will always get 10mbps. If you want 10mbps all the time then it's going to cost you hundreds a month.
If you want them to guarantee you will get a certain speed then fine. They'll just sell you a 500kbps line for the same price. You get 500kbps all the time, and you can blast it with UDP as much as you want.
ISPs like many other companies oversell. This is because 99% of the time there will be no problem and it would cost WAY too much to make sure that bandwidth is there 100% of the time.
You're a home user, you don't need 100% uptime with 100% of your available bandwidth. If you do, then as I said earlier shell out for a business account.
Almost all of my Ham friends simply detest the idea of BPL because of the interference it gives. Its not just us hams that get hurt by this but other commercial and government frequencies that are in the lower range.
If they would spend the money to properly shield the electrical lines to remove interference then I'd love to have BPL.
Unless they know about this detection system and decide to take them all out at once. How many countries that can build one of these can't build 20, 100, 1000 if they really want?
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You pay your ISP for download speeds UP TO 10mbps. that UP TO is the key part. They never say that you will always get 10mbps. If you want 10mbps all the time then it's going to cost you hundreds a month. If you want them to guarantee you will get a certain speed then fine. They'll just sell you a 500kbps line for the same price. You get 500kbps all the time, and you can blast it with UDP as much as you want. ISPs like many other companies oversell. This is because 99% of the time there will be no problem and it would cost WAY too much to make sure that bandwidth is there 100% of the time. You're a home user, you don't need 100% uptime with 100% of your available bandwidth. If you do, then as I said earlier shell out for a business account.
Almost all of my Ham friends simply detest the idea of BPL because of the interference it gives. Its not just us hams that get hurt by this but other commercial and government frequencies that are in the lower range. If they would spend the money to properly shield the electrical lines to remove interference then I'd love to have BPL.
Unless they know about this detection system and decide to take them all out at once. How many countries that can build one of these can't build 20, 100, 1000 if they really want?