[Premium-Rx] BPL is here now - but speed ??

[Rick Warnett]

We have had control over power lines for years and there are some very
successful "in house" systems already around in the market place.
What's happening that seems to be bent on eliminating the HF bands as a
natural resource is the impression multi-megabit high duty cycle signalling
on an already noisy and terribly inefficient carrier system.
Luckily for the background noise levels (which we would all strive to
preserve if it was water pollution, air pollution or light pollution) the
cost of making BPL work into a whole lot of consumer's residences at once is
horrendous.
Most countries (like mine) where consumers don't have DSL, fiber or WiMax,
don't have power, water or telephones coming out of the wall either. As
well, they don't own a PC and wouldn't know what to do with it if they were
given one.
Power cables for anything other than supplying electricity becomes a waste
of effort.
As for Movies on Demand - isn't that inventing a reason to support a
technology ?

The chipsets to generate 200Mbits or whatever are irrelevant, the real
problems are the limited range between repeaters, high voltage isolation and
the cost of a mixed labour skill workforce to keep it going.

Check the natural noise levels in any old text book on radio and
propagation, we are already making a mess of it.
More is NOT BETTER.

Rick W