Milt, N5IA wrote:
> On the contrary Jim.
>
> I have been directly involved with telecommunications AND electric power
> distribution in a very rural area for nearly 40 years.
>
> I have successfully deployed wireless Internet delivery across a 5,000
> square mile area with just over 50 Access Points serving nearly 2,000
> subscribers.
I think you are misinterpreting my comment. My comment *is* that BPL
isn't a very good way to bring broadband to the hinterlands, just as you
say. However, it *is* also a good way to provide employment for a few
hundred folks involved in promoting BPL in one way or another, at least
for a few years until they find something else to promote.
>
> It would take 10 times the investment to do the same via BPL on our
> power lines, and then still not deliver to every potential subscriber
> because of the remoteness of some locations. With electric kWh meter
> density at near 5 per mile (that includes water wells, barns, and other
> locations which are not permanent human dwellings) there would be more
> BPL repeaters than subscribers.
Which actually brings up one of the few practical applications of BPL..
remote meter reading and similar SCADA type applications. It's not a
bad way to distribute real time pricing information too.
> IMHO, wireless IS the solution for most rural areas that I am acquainted
> with.
>
> Milt, N5IA
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