[plug] ADSL plans

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Fri Oct 15 00:47:57 WST 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 18:30, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Chris Caston wrote:
> 
> > OK sorry it looks like I have hit a cord. Although I know nothing about
> > the technology I assume that someone will develop an implementation that
> > doesn't have the interference such in insulated power cables.
> 
> That would, unfortunately, completely negate the point. The only real 
> advantage of broadband over power lines is the re-use of existing 
> infrastructure. If you need to do much to that infrastructure, why not 
> just run fibre instead?
> 

It *may* well be easier to *convince* WPC to insulate all the cables
that it would be to convince Telstra to allow ADSL. Just a guess.

> --
> Craig Ringer
> 
> 
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