said by extreme50:What really needs to happen is a billion dollar X-Prize (funded with ObamaBucks) for the first inexpensive device that can xmit 3Mb symmetrically over ~5 miles of crusty old copper phone lines.
Then we'll see whats really possible!
Its called whitespace broadband. Drive the wires at an amplitude that WILL cause interference to anything at that frequency near the copper trunk line, so nothing better be using that frequency wirelessly. The wire will just increase the signal strength vs doing the same thing wirelessly. Think unshielded coax.
