Powerline ethernet experiences?

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On 03/22/2010 06:09 PM, Rafael Carneiro wrote:
> I have not completely given up on the idea of running a cat-6. Why
> don't you guys have conduits here in Canada? =D
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_conduit

Don't get me started! Toronto Hydro is digging up streets, driveways, 
front yards, back yards, rose gardens, you name it, to bury overhead 
electrical wires. They run the electrical feed in conduit to homes. This 
was done in my neighbourhood in the summer of 2001. The incremental cost 
of laying fiber optic cable at the same time and running it through the 
same conduit would be negligible. I don't think the city should allow 
Toronto Hydro to dig up public roads, which eventually have to be fixed 
using public funds, without requiring Toronto Hydro to run fiber to the 
home. TH could be a neutral provider of dark fiber and we would have 
some real competition in Internet, telecom, and even IP TV services but 
there is no political will to do this and the incumbent oligopolists 
have deep pockets with which to lobby.
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