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Kontiki
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Canada
Aug 2001
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DSL at home. Not sure what we have at work, but it's at least T1.
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VetLegion
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DSL, finnaly DSL after 6 long years on dialup. Death to Dialup!
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asleepathewheel
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listening too long to one song
Mar 2002
time: 00:36
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DSL
I preferred cable, but oh well.
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Ted Striker
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United States of America
Jan 1970
time: 21:36
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Of all these technologies, the BPL is the most promising.
This is because electricity lines exist in more places on this planet than anywhere else. That means no new infrastructure to build.
There are even companies like Sony, that are joining forces to create a PowerLine Appliance. The goal of this is that, gone would be the days of having to buy a modem, or connect your electronic machine into the phone, or the cable line, etc.
Basically, the goal would be to embed the broadband device, which exists in the power plug of the game console, tv, computer, and virtually any other electronic device. All you would need to do is plug the electical plug into the wall and you're good to go.
The benefit for power companies is that they can monitor the service of their electrical networks. Currently they cannot monitor remote devices, only major installations. So if a street has a group of these PowerLine devices go down, the electric company will see that and be able to respond. Instead of waiting for someone to call them up and tell them about the problem.
BPL still has speed issues, as the other technologies are more mature, but I'm sure these can be circumvented as the technology is more widley adopted.
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Atahualpa
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Hawthrone
Mar 1999
time: 06:36
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quote:
Originally posted by Ted Striker
Of all these technologies, the BPL is the most promising.
This is because electricity lines exist in more places on this planet than anywhere else. That means no new infrastructure to build.
There are even companies like Sony, that are joining forces to create a PowerLine Appliance. The goal of this is that, gone would be the days of having to buy a modem, or connect your electronic machine into the phone, or the cable line, etc.
Basically, the goal would be to embed the broadband device, which exists in the power plug of the game console, tv, computer, and virtually any other electronic device. All you would need to do is plug the electical plug into the wall and you're good to go.
The benefit for power companies is that they can monitor the service of their electrical networks. Currently they cannot monitor remote devices, only major installations. So if a street has a group of these PowerLine devices go down, the electric company will see that and be able to respond. Instead of waiting for someone to call them up and tell them about the problem.
BPL still has speed issues, as the other technologies are more mature, but I'm sure these can be circumvented as the technology is more widley adopted. |
I'd imagine this would be great for an intra-house-net, but for broadband to the internet DSL or upcoming wireless technologies seem to have more potential.
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23-06-2005 03:36
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Or to other fascists? 
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