Broadband Over Power Lines
Your scribes are currently subscribed to an Internet broadband plan that is supposed to deliver 256kb per second download and 64 kb per second upload. And oh how we wish we could get what we pay for.
Last week it took over seven hours to upload just part of a major project that we were working on for a client and if we had tried it on the weekend it would have taken even more time. On Saturday instead of downloading at 256kb per second we were getting just 17kb per second download and uploads of around 60kb per second.
And so we are among those who watch the developments that are taking place in the power industry that are going to give us the sort of Internet speeds that we need.
Broadband over power lines has been trialed successfully in Tasmania, it is in use in a few places in Europe and now over 50,000 homes in Cincinnati are using it so come on Ergon when can we have it?
Oh, in case your wondering about the relative speed of broadband over power lines just compare our pathetic 17 kb per second with the 130 mb (yes that is megabytes) per second we could get if we were accessing the internet via the power lines.
