Main reason broadband over power lines failed in Europe was that there is a limitation that comes from topology of out power lines, expecially problems with many local "u/i transform" stations, in some "bad" cases (and very common here) such powerline topological mis-configuration virtually prohibits from usage of these networks. Power companies started to offer that connection about a year ago, but it turned out that only 10% of ppl can actually be connected, because of long distance or bad "last mile" power lines alignment.
At the moment cable-tv-modem ISPs are winners overhere, I personally switched from 0.5MBit ADSL to 4MBit cable modem (40 euro month!!!) and I am very happy now. With the latest Motorola Cable Modem and ASUS G550 switch/wifi runs my home internet really nice and fast (my company network feels like on a modem connection now). I also discovered the thing i hated most on ADSL, the bad multi connection handling (jamming the connection out with bittorrent, increased pings etc.) that disappeared on cable modem.
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Main reason broadband over power lines failed in Europe was that there is a limitation that comes from topology of out power lines, expecially problems with many local "u/i transform" stations, in some "bad" cases (and very common here) such powerline topological mis-configuration virtually prohibits from usage of these networks. Power companies started to offer that connection about a year ago, but it turned out that only 10% of ppl can actually be connected, because of long distance or bad "last mile" power lines alignment.
At the moment cable-tv-modem ISPs are winners overhere, I personally switched from 0.5MBit ADSL to 4MBit cable modem (40 euro month!!!) and I am very happy now. With the latest Motorola Cable Modem and ASUS G550 switch/wifi runs my home internet really nice and fast (my company network feels like on a modem connection now). I also discovered the thing i hated most on ADSL, the bad multi connection handling (jamming the connection out with bittorrent, increased pings etc.) that disappeared on cable modem.