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    News - Liverpool to trial powerline broadband

    Will the trial mark a bigger come-back for PLC technology?
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    Re: News - Liverpool to trial powerline broadband

    All this is just to avoid putting fibre down everywhere. Which would have been better idea. Since fibre is ideal for communications. As it can carry alot of bandwidth more reliably than any copper wire. When most homes have poor speed because the phones were put in long time ago and all the copper has rusted affecting the speed. Then power lines are even older. IMHO stop this and put in fibre
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    now that i think about the word "throttled" in a certain light... its not so far different to strangled really

    our boiler broke so we has no heating or hot water, this is the bloody result ^^

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    Re: News - Liverpool to trial powerline broadband

    Quote Originally Posted by Georgy291 View Post
    IMHO stop this and put in fibre
    You going to pay for it?

    If it was economically viable to put fibre in everywhere then it'd already be there and Virgin would be making money off it. As it isn't already there (I live in a residential area 2 miles from Manchester city centre and I can't get fibre) that must be because it's not economically viable and you can't make money from it.

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    Re: News - Liverpool to trial powerline broadband

    we will need to get power installed first!
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    Re: News - Liverpool to trial powerline broadband

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    You going to pay for it?

    If it was economically viable to put fibre in everywhere then it'd already be there and Virgin would be making money off it. As it isn't already there (I live in a residential area 2 miles from Manchester city centre and I can't get fibre) that must be because it's not economically viable and you can't make money from it.
    well they seem to have money for stuff like this..
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    now that i think about the word "throttled" in a certain light... its not so far different to strangled really

    our boiler broke so we has no heating or hot water, this is the bloody result ^^

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    Re: News - Liverpool to trial powerline broadband

    what ISP will be involved with this?
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    Re: News - Liverpool to trial powerline broadband

    200mbps, will be interesting to see what that really works out at, when my 200mbps powerline adapters struggle to reach 30mbps across 20ft of house.

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    Re: News - Liverpool to trial powerline broadband

    Quote Originally Posted by Jay View Post
    we will need to get power installed first!
    They theaved it all for the copper again!
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: News - Liverpool to trial powerline broadband

    Quote Originally Posted by squirrelz View Post
    200mbps, will be interesting to see what that really works out at, when my 200mbps powerline adapters struggle to reach 30mbps across 20ft of house.
    I think they may use slightly better technology than the stuff you use at home

    I get your point though.

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    They theaved it all for the copper again!
    gits, they got there before me as well!
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    Re: News - Liverpool to trial powerline broadband

    Quote Originally Posted by Georgy291 View Post
    well they seem to have money for stuff like this..
    Putting in end-point technology to send additional signalling down existing wiring is cheaper than digging up roads to lay new cables *then* putting in the end-point technology to send signalling down the new cables. So (theoretically at least) sending ethernet signalling along existing power cables should be cheaper than putting in new cables (of any kind).

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    Re: News - Liverpool to trial powerline broadband

    Liverpool still desperately trying to be first in something...

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