The gravel road is my property.  There are power poles and lines back
to very near the house.  Don't know where the phone company plans
to put phone lines, on the power poles or under ground all the way.

I do expect that DSL will reach us in probably no more than three
years.   However it would be worth something to be able to get local TV
and broadband in the meantime.

I don't know whether cable is legally a public utility or a franchised
monopoly.  The power company can't possibly make enough on me
to justify the many poles and amounts of wire they have put it, but
as a public utility they are expected to do so.  Likewise with the
telephone.   I raised this question with my parish councilman.  He
said to get back to him when the house is up.

If all else fails I may see what it would cost to get DSL on a personal
line at my wife's office, in Covington.  Could put a Linux box  in the
closet there and depend on nobody else around there knowing how
to use it.

Choppy

At 09:04 AM 10/12/02 -0500, Shannon wrote:
>Choppy,
>
>How much are you willing to spend?  Is the gravel road your property?
>
>There are a few ways I can think of to get the signal that far, but you
>may not want to spend that much...


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