Thread: Fibre To The Homes In FRANCE
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Old 27-07-2006, 11:33   #7
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Re: Fibre To The Homes In FRANCE
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Originally Posted by TheNorm
In the meantime, why can't we have this sort of thing (http://www.powerline-plc.com/index.asp):



Or will a collaboration between the electricity and communication companies upset yet another regulator?
Heh.

Scottish and Southern Electricity tried it, and have all but abandoned it, due to the high coverage of ADSL in the UK.

It's a dirty technology anyway, bad RF polluter, the current generations of the technology are slow and unreliable, and it's tough to make a good business case for it as the equipment has to be installed so close to consumers that each install of kit covers relatively few homes so you need a very high uptake of the service to make it worthwhile, which is unlikely when over 99% of the country can get ADSL from 200+ different ISPs.

From your link:

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Provides standard data rate of 2.5 Mb/s at user level, using a highly efficient modem, specially designed to operate in noisy power line environments.
Pretty underwhelming.
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