Does BPL work?
From a consumer point of view and what has been heard from test areas, yes. Amateur radio operators and others do not have an issue with this. So far, the BPL systems installed are generally small, and how well they will work when built out to cover a wider area and more customers remains to be seen, though, as there are few if any heavily loaded systems. However, one would expect the behavior of a BPL network to resemble that of a shared medium like cable or wireless. Systems will have to be segmented further as traffic grows and the available bandwidth in a segment decreases. There are significant concerns about immunity to interference which are discussed later in this FAQ. Tests done to date show that nearby radio transmitters can interfere with BPL, but this too, needs to be looked at in larger systems. The effects of such interference are unknown at this point and could make BPL service in areas unreliable or unfeasible.
