koolones wrote:

Let's face it boys, BPL is comming at us like a fast
freight train rolling thru the Utah Badlands on the
Southern Pacific. (..or is that the Burlington Northern?)

It will turn up in your neighborhood if you're in the suburbs.

Consider THIS however...can you imagine the SUPRISE
and SHOCK (..hint) when all those folks who signed up
for BPL are all online when the first Spring or Summer
thunderstorm rolls thru...????

Think of it 4 a moment..............

It sure is going to be as *amusing* as a Baby Ruth bar in a punchbowl
at a Bar Mitzva, when all your dumbsh-t neighbors get their PC's
other "BPL ready" hardware fried-to-a-crisp when a lightning bolt from
above hits the power pole 1/2 a mile away and blows the crapola
out of every PC that's plugged into the outlet for **miles** around !!



Similar issues with dial-up modems on the phone line have existed for
years. Lightning
gets on the phone line also. Besides a spike that can blow up a BPL
modem would
likely fry the PC power supply anyway.

The RFI from thunderstorms should make life interesting for BPL users....

BPL is the most evil thing to come along since communism!