Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA
 ·Comcast
 ·SONIC.NET
| Frickin awesome
That demo video is frickin awesome. They paired a pretty good marketeer (who knew the technicalities comfortably) with a product that really does show its own. A staple gun! Wow ...
I like how they didn't lie or hide anything -- you could see slight signal drop as the staples went in one by one, but as he pointed out without even saying it directly, -.01dB per staple is nothing compared to -9dB to -10dB. He said one could put in 40 staples like that and not have noticeable impact -- I'm figuring what -.4dB --- pretty darned good.
With due care, you could squeek out a nice -0dB to -.01dB with that stuff, and if you're sloppy, watch out, it's better than copper (in the same sloppiness)! "Gee, this unit is too fricked up and tight to install copper --- we better use fiber!" says the Deathstar technician, who proceeds to install a copper-over-fiber modem on both sides of the fiber ... yeauck.
Anyway, Verizon FiOS -- sorry, but all your old (current to date) installs -- they're going to be a rough equivilant to, but a little worse than, K&T (decent (instead of excellent) workmanship, not much reason (instead of no reason) to remove it, but clearly inferior cabling with respect to flexibility compared to the old stuff).
A light reference about K&T ... »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knob_and_tube_wiring |
