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On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, James Fidell wrote:
Rob Beard wrote:If not fibre to each house, fibre to a cluster of houses.How would you then get from the fibre termination point to each house if a wireless link still isn't viable? There must be other options, surely?
FTTC is attractive for this reason - most houses already have copper going to a nearby termination point - a green cabinet.
It's not always plain sailing though - my BT line comes off a pole, but the connection to that pole goes to a cabinet a few streets away, and from there to the exchange...
The down side is that it needs another cabinet - bigger than the original BT cabinets, so some NIMBYs have whinged.
And it still won't solve the problems of isolated houses - ones 5 miles from the exchange fed off an overhead set of poles with no cabinets in sight. We don't yet have the technlogy, nor (more importantly) the money to provide a fast broadband service to these people without charging them for the install - and running fibre to a new site is stupidly expensive.
(And remember the cabinets also need power!) Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq