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More Power Line Shenanigans

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  • 07-07-2005 5:12pm
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    Sponge Bob
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    BPL , the dog that wont die . Interesting summary of current rcutions over this technology in the states at the momentm , not least the story that a startup got $100m in VC funding from some who should know better .

    http://www.broadbandreports.com/?cat=BPL

    Broadband Reports themselves are suitably cynical about the whole thing. It all reminds me of the Alchemy Boom in the 15th Century :)


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    Urban Weigl
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    There is also quite a long article about this on cnet news:

    http://news.com.com/Broadband+via+power+lines+sparks+Google+interest/2100-1036_3-5777917.html?part=rss&tag=5777917&subj=news


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    zuma
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    Wasnt the ESB heavily investing, at one time at least, in this broadband over Power Line technology???

    What ever became of it???


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    Urban Weigl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Urban Weigl


    zuma wrote:
    What ever became of it???

    It did not work.


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    Solair
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    It also causes fairly serious RF noise problems as the powerlines are totally unsheilded (they were never intended to carry signals) so they start behaving like transmitters and screw up certain radio frequencies. I've read it's a big problem in areas where it was rolled out.

    Unfortunately, the telephone network's just more practical for broadband with the current available technology anyway.

    It'd make a lot more sense in Ireland to get the pretty extensive cable networks broadband enabled a.s.a.p. they've serious potential and have just suffered from massive under investment as both NTL and Chorus were in pretty poor financial shape and never got their upgrade plans off the ground. Hopefully, the new merged UPC entity that will replace them fairly soon will be able to do it!

    ESB's backhaul infrastructure's potentially very useful though!


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    Sponge Bob
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    The ESB trialled 2 systems in Tuam. I understand that 'issues' arising from one of them were not addressed by the manufacturer who basically did a runner post install.

    Neither was a success really, I'm not even sure if they are still switched on. The ESB will stick to being a great fibre provider .

    In a maritime country such as Ireland we don't need this stuff swamping the long range marine safety systems with interference .


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