-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-10-27 at 09:48 +0200, Clayton wrote:
Do these other ISPs in the US actually run fiber to the houses? Or just to the central office? I know in Canada - with the exception of new buildings - most ADSL is copper wire (the original phone wiring) at the minimum from the central office to the customer. Same goes for where I live in Europe... ADSL is generally speaking... still copper wire for the last and most critical segment of the connection.. and also the most susceptible segment.
ADSL is always copper. It is a technology to improve on existing copper lines. Fiber is digital, it is different; although here (Spain) they use a coaxial cable for getting to the homes from a distributor in the street, where the fiber ends.
Ooops... this is getting way off topic.
It is related... it is a technology used for networking in linux. Look, my adsl router, suplied by my telco, runs linux inside ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFQeGVtTMYHG2NR9URAsVfAJ4nL/TXc1aRZmKhdRivAUeCR8+CqACeO/sI DPwLsQfvq4Hcxhb2xIBZ0I8= =ZYqI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----