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Internet over power poles
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kcflhrc
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Fiber optic cable is expensive, and when you put it in the air it is open to all forms of damage. Putting it in the ground is crazy expensive but will last much longer as long as you can keep contractors from hitting it when they are putting in other utilities. You can literally run whole small towns off of 1 strand of fiber with today's technology.
adventure bob
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They're not using the wire or what's in the wire. Essentially they're using the magfield of the power wires as a waveguide for their >30GhZ signal. If you have a waveguide you can shoot the signal farther with less distortion using less power than a signal through open air.
k0ua
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Exactly. The signals do not travel thru the electric wire. They are using the wire as a G line. Which is a type of wave guide.
buickanddeere
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Already installed but not used due to squabbling behind the scenes . The data transmission system used for the smart meter data collection has the channels and data speed with a quawsi wifi protocol.
k0ua
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As an aside today one of my friends who lives out in the sticks in Barry county, several miles from the nearest small town of Monett Mo. just got his fiber service from a new provider (Barry electric) that is wiring up the whole county with fiber. he reported a download speed of 406 Meg and 257 Meg upload. That is pretty close to 1/2 of a Gig download for those of your from Rio Linde. 
That is about 20 times faster that what I have here in Branson over Cable. He is getting this for less than $100 per month.
Now what I want to know is how in heck are they able to do this? How can they make this pay out. When I was in telecom sales, we were told we could build out fiber for about $70,000 per mile.
If there is one thing I have learned about internet access and access speeds. There is a HUGE difference to what kind of service people can get in different parts of the world, and HUGE difference in what they are paying for it.
That is about 20 times faster that what I have here in Branson over Cable. He is getting this for less than $100 per month.
Now what I want to know is how in heck are they able to do this? How can they make this pay out. When I was in telecom sales, we were told we could build out fiber for about $70,000 per mile.
If there is one thing I have learned about internet access and access speeds. There is a HUGE difference to what kind of service people can get in different parts of the world, and HUGE difference in what they are paying for it.
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Yep... the previous owners of my home in Washington declined Comcast when the build-out was happening the neighborhood...
It took years to get it to the house and the bids were 12 to 15k...
In the end I committed to a multi-year business agreement to get it installed.
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rekees4300
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It's about location, location, location. Hopefully this new technology and/or 5G will level the playing field.
k0ua
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Doesn't it mean "beautiful river" in spanish? or something like that.
Rio Linda
A term (usually preceded by "for those of you in. . .") used by the nationally known radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh to poke fun at people who are not too bright. Based on an actual community in west Sacramento California whose residents Rush has jokingly characterized as being backwards, out of touch, or just mentally slow.
"Library - for those of you in Rio Linda that would be 'liberry'"
"A new anti-crime campaign, accounted for nearly a quarter of homicides--" that would be 25% for those of you in Rio Linda"