"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in message
k.net...

[snip]
It is up to us and ALL THOSE it trashes to put on a sustained attack
against
this BPL. If we don't we are stuck with it.

Dan/W4NTI


The more I read about BPL, the more I'm convinced that the market place will
manage to kill it. There are already at least five technologies (dialup,
DSL, cable, WIFI, and fiber optics) that do or could do the job. For BPL to
compete, it will need to have the reliability of cable and be as cheap as
dialup. That combo isn't going to happen plus the DSL, cable, and WIFI
companies are slowly dropping their prices since price is the key factor
that keeps people on dialup. The upgrades needed for our powerlines plus
the additional boosters, etc is going to mean that BPL will cost a fortune
to implement. This cost must be picked up by the customers. So BPL will
approach the cost of other, better services yet be subject to all kinds of
natural and manmade interruptions (unshielded wires just don't cut it).

The thing is, it sounds cheap and simple because we have power lines
everywhere. So it's not too hard for proponents to do a snow job on
investors and politicians.

I even saw an article somewhere that said BPL would reduce powerline noise.
But the reality of the situation is that the BPL companies will have to
reduce the powerline noise to get BPL to work well.

Of course this does not mean that we shouldn't fight it. There are "pie in
the sky" investors who will try to make it work so for some areas and some
period of time, it will be interfering with various radio services before it
is abandoned. Since stopping it before it starts will prevent that period
of interference, we need to keep fighting.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE