Day Brown wrote:
All the folks in town have DSL; that leaves only maybe 15,000 spread
out over 1250 sq miles of hills. And of those, with 4/house, less than
4000 PCs that mite possibly want to be online on about 200 acre farms
each. Scattered in all directions. With the directionality of tuned
Yagi, nobody would be interefering with anyone else's signal. Arent
there notch filters that only accept a few megahertz? And pulse
detectors that'd recognize clipped sine wave peaks for zero and the
normal amplitude as one?

What you really need to do is to convince your local power company to
do what Israel Electric did. A long time ago they figured that BPL was
not worth it, but their right of way was. So they ran a fiber optic network
along with their power lines and use it to monitor and control their
distribituion equipment.

If they ever can get a license to sell Internet access, then they can just use
the fiber optics.

As for the local telephone company just upgrading from dial service, isn't
there a fairly large tax in the U.S. to support providing telephone
service to rural customers? Where did that money go?

Geoff.


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