** Reply to message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:23:48 -0700
> Since when was fiber an option in homes? I thought this was called "the last > mile" problem that was never going to be solved. Are you telling me some > neighborhoods got fiber now? Yikes. the U-Verse fiber runs to the neighborhood server boxes. Think of it like this, Your coax cable carries all frequencies/channels at one time and you tune one to watch it. With the U-Verse setup, they put all channel data on the fiber and then when you sign up, you get 3 tuners in the neighborhood server box which you remotely control to pick your channels. Those channels get you your home over copper wires but only those channels of video. This setup is why they have always talked about delays with channel changing. You hit the remote control button, it tells Windows-in-the-box on your TV which sends the message to the Server-in-the-box somewhere in your neighborhood and the channel is tuned and is finally on it's way to your Windows-in-the-box on your TV conversion to drive the TV. So yes, MaBell2 has fired up some fiber in alot of neighborhoods to the tune of costing over $5 billion. But it is still copper to the home. Doug -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
