How dependent on line quality is this deployment going to be? I've heard about broadband over powerline before, but my impression was that it was very dependent on the quality of the physical infrastructure (i.e. old cables = spotty transfer). Does anyone know how true this is?
Although I live in Canada, where broadband coverage is pretty high and I get a 7mb/s connection for about CAD$56 per month, I would be suprememly P.O'd if my ISP suddenly decided that they liked MSN.ca but not Yahoo.ca, and I got crippled connectivity to a second class site. I would think that even here in the land of complacency consumers would be outraged with this stupidity to the point of saying something out loud or possibly writing a letter. I hope that American consumers stand up for themselves and squash this trend ASAP, because if the U.S.A. approves it, every country in the world is going to follow suit.
Besides,you would think that the ISP's would be more concerned with increasing broadband penetration, rather than devising new ways to cripple customers' connections.
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How dependent on line quality is this deployment going to be? I've heard about broadband over powerline before, but my impression was that it was very dependent on the quality of the physical infrastructure (i.e. old cables = spotty transfer). Does anyone know how true this is?
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Although I live in Canada, where broadband coverage is pretty high and I get a 7mb/s connection for about CAD$56 per month, I would be suprememly P.O'd if my ISP suddenly decided that they liked MSN.ca but not Yahoo.ca, and I got crippled connectivity to a second class site. I would think that even here in the land of complacency consumers would be outraged with this stupidity to the point of saying something out loud or possibly writing a letter. I hope that American consumers stand up for themselves and squash this trend ASAP, because if the U.S.A. approves it, every country in the world is going to follow suit. Besides,you would think that the ISP's would be more concerned with increasing broadband penetration, rather than devising new ways to cripple customers' connections.