[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - broadband

[John J. Foerch]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 03:56:42PM -0400, john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 03:52:27PM -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Bob Kline<bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > The average cost to run a twisted pair today
> > > > is about $2,000.  But it's a long term investment,
> > > > and the phone or cable companies could
> > > > amortise the cost over 20 years or more.  A
> > > > fiber could be retrofitted for that much, on
> > > > average, and less in many cases.
> > >
> > > Twisted pair 20 years ago was cat 3.  Amortizing the cost of a cat 3
> > > line in 2009 would be a waste.  Even amortizing the cost of a 100+
> > > pair bundle more than five years is silly, considering the high risk
> > > of loss of capital due to back hoe fade and the like.
> > >
> > > Probably true.  But the infrastructure is
> > largely there to implement fiber to the home.
> > Even outfits like Comcast and AT&T already
> > run fiber much of the way.
> > 
> > Of course Comcast would figure out some way
> > to screw it up.  One really wants Verizon, but
> > that's nowhere on the horizon.   That I know of,
> > FiOS tiers are 25, 50, and 100 Mbps, and the
> > prices are pretty nominal compared to what
> > one gets from Comcast.  $35 a month for 25 Mbps
> > I believe.
> > 
> >     -- Bob
> 
> Just keep telling ourselves, "it's coming...it's coming..."


And send some of that over this way to Lowell Township while you're at it.
:)

-- 
John Foerch