Estragon
join:2003-06-20
Greenville, NH
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All geography is local
It all depends upon your terrain.
(1) In a dense urban setting, your wifi configuration will be limited by the total amount of spectrum that is available, and how closely you can space your wifi access points.
(2) In an east coast rural setting, your wifi plan depends upon having line of sight to the access point, and trees get seriously in the way.
And if you run that much fiber, you basically have FTTC anyway. why not just go all the way to the home? |
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batageek
Slave To The Duopoly
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| said by Estragon  :And if you run that much fiber, you basically have FTTC anyway. why not just go all the way to the home? But that was kind of my point.
My understanding was that most of the BPL builds are supported by fiber rings around the area anyway. I seem to remember that the expensive part of the BPL builds is literally at the conversion point from the fiber to where it uses the powerline segment/equipment to reach into the home.
If you're that close, and can't run fiber all the way to the home, wouldn't it be substantially cheaper (and more technology safe) to do the end run from the fiber node via a close range mesh (with widely available, standard wifi junk) rather than a proprietary delivery system?
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
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| said by batageek :said by Estragon :And if you run that much fiber, you basically have FTTC anyway. why not just go all the way to the home? But that was kind of my point. My understanding was that most of the BPL builds are supported by fiber rings around the area anyway. I seem to remember that the expensive part of the BPL builds is literally at the conversion point from the fiber to where it uses the powerline segment/equipment to reach into the home. If you're that close, and can't run fiber all the way to the home, wouldn't it be substantially cheaper (and more technology safe) to do the end run from the fiber node via a close range mesh (with widely available, standard wifi junk) rather than a proprietary delivery system? Not really. Here is Duke Energy's fiber network: »www.duke-energy.com/dukenet/
It would be way more expensive to pull fiber all the way to the home or use an unlicensed technology to provide a wireless mesh.
What happens when Johnny hacks his WRT54G with a custom firmware?
WiMAX could possibly work in a fixed point-to-point scenario, but now they have to invest in tons of towers and place equipment on the home like a satellite dish.
It's much cheaper to just use the existing wire, convert the signal and provide a transceiver that plugs into the wall.
The telco's have fiber waaaaay closer to the home than the power companies and the only one of them using FTTH is Verizon.
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