On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 15:39, Net Llama! wrote: > On 11/13/2004 03:26 PM, David Bandel wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:07:21 -0800, Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On 11/12/2004 05:54 PM, Robert Hemus wrote: > >>anything in the mid to upper 45kb is damn good. 56k is the theoretical > >>maximum which is absolutely impossible unless you're under ideal > >>conditions that never occur in the real world. If you're getting fiber > >>cable to the house, why can't you just get DSL? > > > > > > You're joking, right? DSL (no matter what form you're talking, Adsl, > Not too ignorant. I saw what they were pulling through the pipe. Only the > larger
> communities are getting optics, I think. Happy Camp, Fort Jones, Etna, and maybe Orleans, I'm not sure. The long telephone hook-up is by microwave from mountain top to mountain top. I'm on a translator board that rebroadcasts FM and TV signals back to town and I'm pretty familiar with the telephone setup on Slater Butte. We get our electricity from the 'phone company. When the local power company goes down the 'phone company generator that charges their batteries sends us 240 volts (2 120 v. legs)for our translators so people with portable radios or generators at home receive radio and TV. > Not joking, just ignorant apparently. > > > Sdsl, Hdsl) all travel from the DSLAM to the DSL modem over COPPER > > (only adsl can share the line with voice). To travel over fiber > > requires converters at each end, very _expensive_ converters. > > > > But there are other technologies that can make use of fiber without > > the converters. > > > > Ciao, > > > > David A. Bandel > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub/Pause/Etc : http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
