cdru
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Fort Wayne, IN
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Re: That's why
Do you think that if there was copper based service that the lighting strike would have spared the copper line? No, I don't think so either. The problem in that case wasn't fiber/copper, it was that lighting stroke the line. Nothing will protect against that ever, well, maybe a buried line. If it was copper based, it would have been much more probable that the copper would have been energized and anything attached to it inside the house likely would have been fried too.
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
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What do you think the fiber is suspended from? It's not a copper cable but it is conductive. I bet there is copper coming from that FIOS box on the side of your house to your telephone.
A few years one side of our fiber ring went down due to lighting. My first though was huh? how did that happen. What happened was lighting struck the cable mid span and it traveled the steel cable and the metal cable that wraps the fiber to the steel cable to the nearest pole and then to ground. The fiber was destroyed because it was melted. |
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davl
join:2006-01-28
Furlong, PA
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said by unixnoob  :Two years ago when I got FiOS, I made V* leave my copper POTS. The fact that we live in the Lightning Capital of the world didn't hurt either! I don't understand your comment about lightning. I feel a lot safer when talking on the phone with FIOS during a storm, knowing that there is no copper "lightening rod" connected to my house or more importantly to the phone next to my ear. |
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tschmidt
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Milford, NH
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said by unixnoob :The fact that we live in the Lightning Capital of the world didn't hurt either! I don't understand. I would assume living in heavy lightning area you would want copper phone line removed to eliminate path for lightning surges.
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Michieru2
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Miami, FL
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TCH: !google Inconvenient truth published articles
[TCH] P2P Criminals!
Seems that there are still a few bugs the developer needs to work on.
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Raptor
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join:2001-10-21
London, ON
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said by JeepMatt :this is not happening in ALL FIOS states. Granted, but heaven forbid someone publishes an article to debunk rampant generalizations such as this. Articles like that just don't sell to readers. Much more fun to scream 'oh nos my DSL has been stoled!1~'
Reminds me of how Gore in An Inconvenient Truth mentioned how there were hundreds? thousands? of published papers on how climate change is real, where as only a handful were published against, yet they're reported about 50/50. I don't remember the numbers or if what I said was precisely it, but you know what I mean.
Go TKJunkMail research bot! Cite us values on articles published vs. articles per argument side percentile.
If any of the CLECs care to cry about such things, maybe they should take notes and start deploying their own fibre to the door. Simply picture a 5 year old crying "stop selling a better product than me", and you'll get the idea.
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JeepMatt
Delaware Fios
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Wilmington, DE
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Just so everyone knows - this is not happening in ALL FIOS states.
In Delware, the copper is not being removed. I actually wanted it removed, so there would be less wires from the pole to the house, but was told they are leaving it there.
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unixnoob
join:2002-09-11
Odessa, FL | Two years ago when I got FiOS, I made V* leave my copper POTS.
The fact that we live in the Lightning Capital of the world didn't hurt either!
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