[LINK] BPL

[Kim Holburn]

On 2009/Mar/15, at 4:24 AM, David Boxall wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 at 21:06:14 +1100 Robin Whittle wrote:
>> Broadband over Power Lines (AKA PLC - Power Line Communications) is
>> a load of crap.
> Robin, do you mind not getting your facts in the way of people's
> beliefs? It's very upsetting.
>
> OK, so we can't use the lines. What about the poles?

Ugly.  You could.  When Telstra put in new copper in our suburb a few  
years ago, they used the new direction controlled drills.  It didn't  
take them very long at all.  (Maybe they were stung into action by the  
sudden appearance of Transact.)  There are lots of options.


BTW I don't understand why I can't get fibre to my home.  Is  
termination that expensive?  Try getting anything like the bandwidth  
of fibre through any other medium.  Through the air?  Through power  
lines?  I don't think so.  In Japan you could get 100Mb to the home 5  
years ago.   Who knows what it is now.  You can't do that with shared  
lines or transmission lines which radiate energy.  Not in a city.


> TransACT, among others, strings fibre from power poles for their HFC
> network. Is there any reason why that couldn't be extended to FTTN,  
> then
> FTTH, for remote residences?
>
> It's ugly and vulnerable, but would be quick to implement and far
> cheaper than in-ground installation. Bearing in mind that whatever is
> done will probably be replaced shortly by whatever comes next, so we
> need something quick & cheap, if a bit dirty.
>
> -- 
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>                                |  scientist states that something is
>                                |  possible, he is almost certainly
>                                |  right. When he states that
>                                |  something is impossible, he is
>                                |  very probably wrong.
>                                                   --Arthur C. Clarke


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