Running fiber to each and every _existing_ home or business can be very,
very expensive.
Running 48 - 192 count fiber /PAST/ a bunch of neighborhoods / busines
parks and pealing off a few pairs to each remote and then terminating of
to 4000 subs at each... 1/100th the cost, or less
On 4/20/14, 10:45 AM, qrv@kd4e.com wrote:
> Is it that they use a better fiber-to-copper converter at the street,
> then split the lines to the homes, rather than running fiber to each
> house & using a poorer quality converter?
>
> I'm trying to understand the reason for interrupting the fiber prior
> to the run from the street to each house.
> David KD4E
>
>> I have Frontier 6 Mbs DSL - Fiber to the DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line
>> Access Multiplexer) then buried copper pair to the house Network
>> Interface, CAT-3 pairs to the ADSL-2 modem, router, and wi-fi gateway.
>> The Netgear 7550 DSL modem sits in the shack. Thus far there has been no
>> evidence of RFI to or from the Netgear 7550.
>>
>> A search on VDSL
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-high-bit-rate_digital_subscriber_line)
>> shows
>> that Bloomington IL is a market where 40 Mbit/sec downstream and 10
>> Mbit/sec upstream is available. In all cases the length of the copper
>> path from the DSLAM, the equipment terminating the copper pairs at the
>> DSLAM and at the subscriber location will ultimately determine line
>> quality and downsteam / upstream speeds.
>>
>>
>> 73 & DX,
>> Gary - AB9M
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Dale J.
>> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 3:32 PM
>> To: qrv@kd4e.com
>> Cc: RFI
>> Subject: Re: [RFI] VDSL (very-high-bit-rate digital subscriber line)
>>
>> I'm not sure myself, but I believe the fiber cable is someplace else
>> from this street and it's converted in some way from fiber to copper
>> phone line then routed to the house or use existing phone wiring. But
>> I'm not sure if I have that right. Maybe someone else has better
>> information.
>>
>> Dale, k9vuj
>>
>>
>>
>> On 19, Apr 2014, at 15:19, qrv@kd4e.com wrote:
>>
>>> What's the difference between VDSL & DSL?
>>>
>>> We have fiber-DSL to the exterior of our home then it's converted
>>> in a box prior to entry.
>>>
>>> Why would they do it differently than that?
>>>
>>> David KD4E
>>>
>>>> Anybody have VDSL service to their home? I did a quick lookup and it
>>>> uses copper to the home at frequency band 25 Khz to 25 Mhz. My next
>>>> door just signed up for it. I wonder if that will be my next
>>>> challenge.
>>>>
>>>> Dale, k9vuj
>
>
>
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