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Re: Electric Powerlines to be Used For Broadband

Daniel AJ Sokolov (sokolov@gmx.netnetnet.invalid)
Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:44:01 +0200

07.10.2005 00:17 John Stahl wrote:

> The following article indicates that one of the major power companies
> (Pittsburgh Power and Light, Allentown, PA) in field testing phase of
> BPL (Broadband Over Power Line) technology has decided to
> "pull-the-plug" and not pursue widespread deployment.

The same has happened to most deployments in Germany. If you have one
or two users, it works fine (though you generate interference for
other users, especially shortwave radio). But if you get hundreds or
thousands of users, they start to interfere themselves and the
bandwith drops considerably.

MfG
Daniel AJ

My e-mail-address is sokolov [at] gmx dot net

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