FCC approves fiber to the home and powerline broadband
By Dan Wu 
posted October 18th 2004 5:30PM
posted October 18th 2004 5:30PM
Our favoritest branch of the government, the FCC, has finally
cleared the way for broadband over power lines (BPL) and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) to be available nationwide to
consumers. Now your local power company can offer broadband (which will be comparable to DSL speeds to start), and
they've deregulated fiber optic networks, so telephone companies will no longer be the only ones laying fiber. Us,
we're just waiting for Verizon's Fios fiber service, or
really anything faster than cable, the awful late 90s excuse for broadband we're all still using at home (when it
works).
BPL will interfere with terrestrial TV, amateur radio, AM/FM broadcast band and a lot of other things. BPL is not needed. There are other ways of getting through the last mile.
*weeps as he realizes his cable ISP tech support job is close to becoming irrelevant*
*realizes he lives in a small town that won't be influenced by Verizon's incredible speeds for a few more years*
Woot.
It wont interfere with anytthing, stop posing if you dont have relevant information.
This tech will work flawlessly. Puhleease...
From what I understand, a data signal cannot go through a transformer, which would mean that the router has to be located in front of every one of those street pole transformers. If so, that seems excessive, and isn't there a real possibility of tapping into those if they're hanging open on the street?
so how would one go about getting fiber installed? my current dsl sucks, and comcast never offered cable internet in my neighborhood.
what companies are going to start laying these lines?
I don't see why we even need government approval for innovation/new cool stuff, let alone thank them when they allow people to do stuff that the government has no business regulating/forbidding.
I'd also love to know how broadband over power lines will cause such devastation over the RF spectrum. Something to do with ley lines, perhaps? (seriously, I can't see how this would happen)
Around my parts near but not in Seattle Comcast's broadband is sweet. I can't complain about it at all. Downloads from Microsofts site are frequently at 460KB/s. That's not shabby. Now there are areas that have too many people on a node and that's not good but I'm not suffering from that.
uk trials started over a year ago
http://www.southern-electric.co.uk/broadband/intro.asp
Also what kind of cable modem service do you HAVE? My standard RoadRunner here in NYC gets me 3.5Mbps standard and it's almost bulletproof...
Check out my post on BPL and interference in the latest Engadget BPL story: http://www.engadget.com/entry/3351471825857782/
just last week my street went under construction, and our lawns were dug up and signs were put up announcing ftth, and i almost wet myself, the construction is over, but on the verizon website it still isnt ready, and now i sit in anticapation waiting and waiting
by the way, i live in Irving texas, smack dab inbetween dallas and fortworth
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