Electrical Company To Offer High Speed Internet

[DudeAsInCool]

...Broadband over Power Lines (BPL), with investments from big-name companies including Google and IBM, is beginning to move beyond small trial projects to deploying systems for large communities. For example, some 50,000 homes in the Cincinnati area have signed up for BPL Internet- service. And Manassas, Va., a town of 37,000, runs its own BPL service. "Our hope is that in the next two years you'll see millions of homes" using BPL, says Kevin Kushman, vice president of corporate development at CURRENT Communications Group in Germantown, Md. CURRENT is partnering with Cinergy Corp. to provide BPL in the Cincinnati area.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0815/p13s01-stct.html

[rainbowdemon]

I was telling my g/f about this a while back. She asked me "what happens if there's a power failure".

Ummm.....here's your sign.

:read this:

[Ken]

I was telling my g/f about this a while back. She asked me "what happens if there's a power failure".

In my area, power is extremely reliable.

I can only remember losing power about 2 times; twice over 15 years ago. We in the Buffalo, NY metro area didn't even lose power during the northeast blackout of 2003, nor during any blizzards since the 1977 monster.

My cable Internet connection was down on an average as high as twice a month during the past 2 years.

It's since gotten better with a long period of no problems, but in the last 3 weeks, it was out TWICE.

BPL would be cheap and reliable; two reasons why I will never see it in my area, as things around here are controlled by corrupt politicians and their corporate masters who include Adelphia which is soon-to-be Warner Brothers or some such bullshit.

I would switch to BPL in a heart beat.