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PiratesFan · Rigger Posts: 1689 **23509 Gold** -

I know many people have a high speed service such as cable or DSL and many more are still on Dial-up but how many are on BPL? That stands for Broadband Access Over Power Lines. I was a little astonished to here about it at first and the concept was rather mind boggling. The coolest feature to this concept is that instead of an "asynchronous" service where you have high-speed downloads and low speed uploads you instead get a "symmetrical" service that provides same speed uploads and downloads. To read more information on this check these links out:
http://equipped.msn.com/article.aspx?aid=4
http://www.currentgroup.com/

Falconer · Captain Posts: 1902 **2865 Gold** -

Nope, got ADSL myself. The power broadband is cool indeed but the up/down speed differences on all the other services are (afaik) a choice by the providers themselves. They can give you the same speeds up and down but by giving you lower speeds, they try to discourage you from running servers and such. Also keeps Kazaa and friends in check (which is also a server really).

El Diablo · Cutthroat Posts: 334 **218 Gold** -

Another thing is, that you share the speed with all other connected to the same node. That means, if many in your area are "on", the speed will go down.

But what you can also do, is to make your homeLAN over powerline.
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PiratesFan · Rigger Posts: 1689 **23509 Gold** -

E.D. the speed going down is not necessarily true if your network managed properly with the correct equipment. I am thinking that since your carrying this signal over the Power Lines that you shouldn't experience any issues with slow times unless everyone is demanding electiricty at the time... Brownout situations.. Like any service there is always its ups and downs

Falconer · Captain Posts: 1902 **2865 Gold** -

Unless the power goes down, I don't think there's anything that affects the speed over powerlines other than people in your area using the same bandwidth. Cable providers (at least overhere) have managed to deal with this particular problem reasonably well so I see no reason why power companies wouldn't be. Like PF said, if it's managed well.

It's just a very freaky idea to Internet via powerlines and that keeps people from trying it I think. The power companies overhere have given up on it at the moment. Not sure why though.

PiratesFan · Rigger Posts: 1689 **23509 Gold** -