That what cinergy is offering. I'll be trying it out next week. The guy said it send a radio signal through the powerline. It's picked up by a little receiver hooked into any power outlet.

 

This guy said I will get 3000 kbps upload too, along with 3000 kbps download. Which I find AMAZING.he said i'll have no more lag and I get the first month free to try out. If I stay on with them, they will give one month free every year for as long as I am a customer.

 

He said i'll be one of the first in the country to have it..;)

That is way too fast. Is mbps the same as Mb? I have cable and have 4 Mb d/l.

 

If this is true and works out...sign me up :)

Cincinnati is one of the first cities in the country to have widely available powerline internet access. They did a trial in Hyde Park a year or two ago and are now starting to roll it out into other parts of town. I've heard about those promised speeds, too.

 

Just curious, how much are they charging?

That is way too fast.  Is mbps the same as Mb?  I have cable and have 4 Mb d/l. 

 

If this is true and works out...sign me up  :)

 

Mega bits per second...

 

I question unusuaulfires numbers too, maybe he means 300 mbps.

 

As for signing you up, well move to the Ohio side and the first month is on me :)

The speed is somewhere in the 3mbps range (mega bits per second.)

^ he's right 3 mbps. Same as local cable, but you get 3 mbps upload too.

 

The prices from what I saw was.

 

$29 for 1 mbps up and down

$34 for 2 mbps up and down

$39 for 3 mbps up and down

 

The price does not include the free month each year.

And no taxes.

I am so there when this comes to town.

The speed is somewhere in the 3mbps range (mega bits per second.)

 

Yeah that is quite a bit difference than the 3000 mbps that he quoted.

OH MY I just got this off of DSLreports.

 

 

Yep and have been for 9+ months. Here in Cincinnati we have CurreentLink from our local power co (Cinergy-CGE) which went from trial to full commercial roll-out in June 2004. I have the 2 Mps / 2 Mps service for $ 29. They offer various tiers of service which is more detailed at »www.current.net. It works much better than I thought it ever would! The up down speeds being the same is a first in our area (not including the old Northpoint/Covad disasters around here years past). I use an ethernet powerline adapter from Asoka (»www.asokausa.com). The wild thing is I can take my modem/adapter and visit a friends house or my office in the area and it works there! You can buy additonal (up to 4) modems and register their MAC address and use the service wherever they have in running - wild! Just plug into ANY outlet. Its something that eventually will get the attention of the cable/DSL camp! At home we still use a multi-WAN solution (Earthlink Cable 3 Mps - Zoomtown DSL 3 Mps/768 Kbps - CurrentLink Powerline 2 Mps/2 Mps through an Edimax 4 WAN port router) and I have the Powerline service on WAN port 1 as primary in the load balance setup. Thumbs up so far! We are thinking of dropping the Cable as its the priciest at $ 41.95? and going back to a Dual WAN solution.

 

CurrentNeighbor Pricing:

 

Service Plans Speed Standard Monthly Access Charge 2 CurrentNeighbors10% Savings! 3 or more CurrentNeighbors

15% Savings!

Current Quick Access 1 Mbps $29.95 $26.96 $25.46

Current Power Access 2 Mbps $34.95 $31.46 $29.71

Current Premier Access 3 Mbps $39.95 $35.96 $33.96

Current Home Office 3 Mbps $49.95 $44.96 $42.46

 

 

With Home office you will have you own IP# and you can run your own site from it. Rich you might want to check into it.

 

CurrentNeighbor Pricing:

 

Service Plans Speed Standard Monthly Access Charge 2 CurrentNeighbors10% Savings! 3 or more CurrentNeighbors

15% Savings!

Current Quick Access 1 Mbps $29.95 $26.96 $25.46

Current Power Access 2 Mbps $34.95 $31.46 $29.71

Current Premier Access 3 Mbps $39.95 $35.96 $33.96

Current Home Office 3 Mbps $49.95 $44.96 $42.46

 

 

With Home office you will have you own IP# and you can run your own site from it. Rich you might want to check into it.

 

When it comes available here, I'll try it out.  It shouldn't be too long, I live like 2 miles from downtown.

I just signed up for this.  the modem should arrive today or tomorrow.  they had a few 22 year old kids going door to door selling the service in my hood (pleasant ridge).  I was the easiest sale ever.  3mb up/down for $39.99 with 12th month free and first month freee?  Plus discounts if other people sign up in your hood.  There are no fluctuations in speed like DSL (if you live further from the CO, its slower) and it doesnt slow down when everyone logs on like cable.  Its sounds too good to be true.  I may be able to have no land line and no cable either!  wow!

 

review to follow

 

 

Yeah same here, some young guy came around our area(Silverton) selling the service. I have not gotten it yet, because of my brother being in the hospital. I think i'll get it around Christmas.

Anyone know if the service is available downtown?

Anyone know if the service is available downtown?

 

hey mark.  try http://www.current.net/

Well they send out a mailing to all the area's that's covered. I got mine. It came 2 weeks after the guy came to the house. It's hard to find out on the site, since you have to put that code they give you in the mailing.

Anyone know if the service is available downtown?

 

hey mark.  try http://www.current.net/

 

Wrote them an email.  Strangely, downtown isn't on the list yet.  Funny.

It might be a while since they will have to wire underground.

Power internet uses the powerline into your home, but on the outside they need a whole new wire to connect all of the houses like cable.

so far I think I'm sticking with DSL.  I'm getting serious packet loss with the broadband thru electrical outlet.  and the speed is about 1/4 of the advertised speed download, and 1/2 of the upload speed.  its nice to have the great upload speed but the packetloss is horrible, making serious delays when surfing, and making on-line gaming reminiscent of the 56K days.  I'm gonna call them today to see if this is expected to be fixed.

^ That's not good to hear.

whoa..that would suck. Maybe you're getting interference in the lines inside your home.

At least you won't have to pay anything since you'll get the first month free to test out..;)

 

 

OK i got it..so far thumbs up

I got rid of roadrunner because of this screen shot below which happens most of the day since i got back from Colorado.

 

Ohhh and i have the $19 a month service as a trial. I'll switch to 3 mbps for $34 next month.

so i'm using the 512k down and up now and let me tell you online gaming has never been more smooth.

That is nice to hear. I hope it comes to my area soon.

Cincinnati is one of the first cities in the country to have widely available powerline internet access. They did a trial in Hyde Park a year or two ago and are now starting to roll it out into other parts of town. I've heard about those promised speeds, too.

 

Just curious, how much are they charging?

 

Cincinnati IS the first to offer BPL. Yeah, I tried ordering also a while back and downtown is still not covered as of yet. I filled out there "request service" form, so we will see what happens...

I just got my T1 line hooked up yesterday, and oddly enough, its slow as hell.  When is this service coming to Cleveland?

T1??? Don't that cost like $500+ a month? ;)

I don't know.  My apartment is wired for it, and I pay $25/month.  Its supposed to be REAL fast.  It isn't. That's all I know

After sometime of using this connection. I think it's the best EVER. I'll never go back to Time-Warner cable. I get no lag what so ever and nothing(bandwidth) is shared with surrounding community, unlike Time-Warner.

I still can't wait for this to come to my area.  I wonder if living in an older house hinders performance any?

Unusualfire is playing Diablo II & using Photoshop at the same time?  LOL

 

BTW, you need to download http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ and you can access all your IM stuff under one app.

I still can't wait for this to come to my area.  I wonder if living in an older house hinders performance any?

Well I had a problem(low signal) with one of the sockets in the house. They ended up putting in a wireless connection closer to the power box which has the strongest signal, after that everything has been running like  a waterfall..;) Oh and Monte I play Guild Wars too..;)

I didn't read all the previous posts in fine detail, so forgive me if this has already been covered.

 

I think the BPL implementation is part of the infrastructure for eventual remote reading of electric meters. I've read that some utilities are working on this. Not only will it eliminate the cost of going door-to-door to read meters, but it will give them real-time tracking of usage patterns and help to predict demand levels on various circuits.

 

Some utilities already give preferred rates to customers who allow them to install timers on high-demand appliances like electric water heaters to regulate periodic demand. Having a broadband connection into each household could enable more sophisticated methods of leveling demand. For example, a utility could control the operating cycles of residential and commercial air-conditioning systems in hot weather to avoid rolling blackouts or equipment-damaging brownouts. Everyone might not be able to stay as cool as they wanted, but no one would be shut down completely for an extended period and special provisions could be programmed in for people with medical conditions.

The signal that these devices use to transmit data is so small that there should be no reason that older wiring couldn't handle it.  You cannot use power strips (except for the special ones you can get from them) or surge protectors. 

 

So the general opinion is that current is pretty damn good? (Still waiting for it to get out to my house.)

 

X:

A real T1 is very expensive and can push pretty good speeds.  But you can get something called a fractional T1 which can be as slow as 128Kbps, which is only slightly faster than dialup.

Thanks hydrobond.  I've actually learned that the hard way since I made that last post.  My T1 line sucks.  The service provider told me that we all share one T1 line which in total is about as fast as cable modem.  If no one else is using it, great.  Otherwise it does get pretty damn slow.  I will replace it with cable when my finances improve. 

^

how much is it?

It's only $20.  That should have been the tipoff, huh?

X, how many people are you sharing your T1 with?

X, is your computer set up for broadband? Maybe your RWIN is set too low?

cincy-rise, it's the whole East 4th St. neighborhood.  They know that they don't have enough bandwidth for the number of people they have, and may expand the line soon, though.  That would make it somewhat faster, but still nowhere near cable.

 

unusualfire, I don't know anything about RWIN settings, but I had cable on this computer before I moved here, and it was very fast then.  Also, on occasion the line is fairly fast.  So I'm guessing that's not the problem, but if you think that is the issue, I could check if you walk me through real quick.

Oh, I thought you were sharing this with some friends in an apartment or something (we did this with cable once).

http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks

That test will let you know if you have the right settings for broadband.. It's an interesting site too you should check it all out.

Anyone else try this out?  I havent heard about it in forever.

Anyone else try this out?  I havent heard about it in forever.

 

I've had it for a few months now.  I've not had a single problem with it, and the upload speed has been wonderful (since I use my home connection to host my website.)  The company is still rather small, and when I called tech support to have them open the HTTP port for me I was actually talking to a network engineer, not some guy in India.  I highly recommend switching to current if anyone is thinking about it. 

 

The switch to Duke Energy kinda killed it, you gotta keep checking the Current Broadband wepage to see if your area has the service yet. 

 

The only down side is I can't seem to get the 3mbps upload speed they promise.  I'm sure the problem lies with Apache, as I can actually get a combined 3mbps when I download two files from my server.  I can only get about 2mbps when I download one file from my server.  As I said, I'm sure the problem is on my end, I just can't figure out where the problem is or how o fix it. 

FIOS blows this away, if you can get it.

You holding out on us hydrobond?  What is your website?

I don't know if I'll switch when it is offered here. Go to Speed Matters and then weap at how other countries are able to offer such high speeds. "High speed" here in the states pales in comparison to truly high speeds elsewhere -- like

 

I use Insight and pull down 9723 kbps (9.45 MBs) and 911 kbps (.88 MBs) upload. That's just on their _regular_ plan. Insight now offers a "10 MB" plan for those customers that want even higher speeds... I tested this on other sites for accuracy and I was averaging anywhere from 8 to 10 MB download. When I had wireless internet for the downtown, I was pulling down a mere 300 kbps and was uploading an average of just 30 kbps. And the signal tower was on a building just one block away. Needless to say, not long after I canned my account on this sham, the company folded and is now part of Windstream.

 

The average d/l for Kentucky is just 1365 KBPS (1.33 MB), 1278 KBPS (1.24) for the states, 3072 KBPS (3) for Canada, 3276 KBPS (3.19) for Germany, 4096 KBPS (4) for Iceland, 8396 KBPS (8.19) for Sweden, and 51200 KBPS (50) for Japan.

So that's how much internet costs.

 

I've been stealing wireless for 2 years now.

FIOS blows this away, if you can get it.

 

Verizon FIOS costs me $39.92/month including surcharges and taxes for 5mb down / 2mb up. When I've tested it, it does deliver reliably and consistently on those speeds. They just announced FIOS TV availabiity in my area, but I'll take a pass on it; I haven't turned on my TV in over a year. It's in a corner, unplugged, facing the wall.