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4 edits | reply to dslwanter
Re: Good for them! I feel that some form of fiber/coax hybrid cable system would probably be somewhat cheaper to deploy compared to DSL. But you have to keep in mind that most people that live in rural locations are not only outside the reach of DSL, but in most cases are not passed by a local cable carrier as well, unless they live near the city limits of a modest size town, which most don't. Unless I misunderstood your post, and you were referring to a fiber plant from a local telco, which is not going to happen anytime soon in remote locations. |
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 dslwanterIt's comingPremium
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Niles, OH
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3 edits | said by dataice:I feel that some form of fiber/coax hybrid cable system would probably be somewhat cheaper to deploy compared to DSL. But you have to keep in mind that most people that live in rural locations are not only outside the reach of DSL, but in most cases are not passed by a local cable carrier as well, unless they live near the city limits of a modest size town, which most don't. Unless I misunderstood your post, and you were referring to a fiber plant from a local telco, which is not going to happen anytime soon in remote locations. You did missunderstand my post. I was responding to the statement above saying DSL was the answer for rural broadband. I never said they were served by a cable carrier either. I just said building some form of a network out of fiber optic cable may be a better soltuion. For example, Armstrong cable just bought our township which is "rural". They built us a cable system out of fiber optic cable. Why? Fiber can carry a signal further so less amps needed & fiber has significantly come down in price. It doesn't even have to be a "cable op", just some organization to come in and run fiber, we're talking broadband here, not CATV.
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| Sorry for the misunderstanding. Yes costs are coming down for fiber, but most companies don't seem all that enthused about deploying a fiber built internet plant out in the sticks. I'm glad you were lucky enough to find one that did.  I still think some form of wireless is the best route to go for remote locations. But unfortunately, rural locations will most likely be overlooked by most companies for some time to come. Especially considering the health of our current economy. |
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1 edit | said by dataice:Sorry for the misunderstanding. Yes costs are coming down for fiber, but most companies don't seem all that enthused about deploying a fiber built internet plant out in the sticks. I'm glad you were lucky enough to find one that did. I still think some form of wireless is the best route to go for remote locations. But unfortunately, rural locations will most likely be overlooked by most companies for some time to come. Especially considering the health of our current economy. Wireless isn't an efficient idea. Unless you're talking about flat land with little obstruction (trees, houses, etc), that signal isn't going very far. Plus the cost of tower rental or possibly building new towers and transmitters. Why not use the same poles already in place carrying power and telco service? The only thing you're really paying for there in terms of materials is the fiber optic cable itself, splice devices to feed the drops, and then whatever device (such as an omnibox, provided by Armstrong here) to service customers. Fiber can carry signals a hell of a lot further than any other medium before needing amplified & in terms of "rural" distance is the biggest factor. Another thing is it's immune to EMI/RFI.
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4 edits | Good point, but I think we both can agree with the fact that rural locations will continue to be overlooked for the foorseable future. |
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1 edit | said by dataice:Good point, but I think we both can agree with the fact that rural locations will continue to be overlooked for the foorseable future. Absolutely. I'm in a "rural" location, I was lucky enough to catch the end loop of what was very marginal DSL (384kbps, with connection loss). Most others in this township have never had broadband. We just now got this cable, we always had cable, it was just not worth much it was nothing but analogue, now it was rebuilt with fiber.
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| If you think some company is going to spend untold millions of dollars dropping fiber to the stix then you are delusional. It would make more sense to strike up some kind of deal with cellular providers and just drop the needed equipment at the cell towers. That would make much more sense financially over fiber. and coverage in rural areas would be no different than current cell phone coverage. Fiber is just barely getting off the ground in major metropolitan areas/suburbs, it will be at LEAST a decade away before rural areas can even think of getting fiber, and Verizon has already said in so many words its not interested in getting 100% of its copper plant switched over to fiber anytime soon, and most likely those places will just be sold off to another carrier like what happened in several new england states earlier this year, when Verizon offloaded them to Fairpoint communications. |
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