EWEB's interest was far more practical .. If your power meter simply
phoned home & over the same power lines - there would be no need for
meter readers, and you could find out where you sat billwise every 10
min. if you wanted to. Customer internet BPL was a secondary thought.
Some of the big customers already do automatic meter reading .. albeit
over regular ethernet. The meter technology is pretty young still
security wise as well .. nothing encrypted .. pretty easy to DOS if you
find one.. etc..etc..
Since the feasability test, to my knowledge there's no plan to move to
BPL anytime soon..
Jeff Newton wrote:
Speaking of BPL, there's been alot of opposition with it within the
amatuer radio community, because if it causing intereference among the
radio spectrum that amatuers use. Supposedly, they say. The ARRL
(Amatuer Radio Relay League) is all over it I hear. But to me, its
costly and a bad idea!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can say that EWEB recently had a grant to look into the
feasablility of BPL ( broadband over power lines ) ... turns out the
transformers / substations or something is not of the type that works
well ( not sure of the details ).. meaning expensive replacements to
make it a reality.. have not heard of other means.
However...if anyone is really interested in geting into that topic (
BPL or the fiber ) with EWEB's board of directors.. John Simpson .. a
relatively new board member is fairly tech savvy and wont give you
blank stares.. in fact he has helped get the public network in the
North building there.. he want his wireless during meetings !!! heh.
( http://eweb.org/about/commissioners/index.htm )
Mark
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