We saw quite a bit of the same kind of reports that Clay did and saw IBEC
deploying in our Electric Coop as well. We subsequently met with some of the
techs who worked locally with them (they were based in Alabama) who swore up
and down the technology worked. In fact, we heard a substantially
Ralph - pretty sure we used the netgear model units and they did not require
anything more than plug and pray. Worked great.
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From: ralph
To: 'WISPA General List'
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2013 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ethernet over power lines (n
Then you may not be talking about what I am talking about.
I think it may have been Duke Power who did some of the 1st generation
trial/pilots I speak of. It was quite a while ago, It was too expensive,
didn’t work well, and, well, yes it certainly did interfere with licensed users
(Ham Radio
The power wiring in a building resembles a juniper bush which means that RF
in the nest of wiring finds lots of antennae near a suitable wavelength that
are “stubs” on the main trunks.
One can imagine that the various attempts to use that wire, as tempting as
it seems to electricity, is not r
Funny to see this today. I was upgrading a customers equipment today who
works for the Electric company that provided service for BPL here, until it
failed.
He was telling me how they are still, after two years, finding and pulling
the equipment off their poles and piling them up in a heap.
I wou
I am writing this because I just read an old thread from around 9/20/13 on
AFMUG in which BPL was being discussed.
I'm no longer on that list due to the amount of traffic, but I'd like to
discuss it more here.
A. The failed power company BPL trials were a unique technology.
However t
