I have heard of a something under testing and development (in NZ) at present - I heard it referred to as "darklining", which I understand is using power lines to carry high speed internet access with the purpose of supplying high speed access cheaply to rural customers.
Or of course, I could have just been a supreme sucker, being taken for a long ride with a big ball of wool over my eyes. Anyone else heard of such? > -----Original Message----- > From: C Falconer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 3 December 2002 12:17 > To: Linux Users Group > Subject: Re: Bandwidth [OT] (Was: Distributions) > > > What kind of net access does the primary school there have? > > Their home page is gone-away - http://www.chch.school.nz/westmelton/ > > Yuri - how about becoming a test site for long haul SSR - find someone > in Yaldhurst to be a repeater node :-) > > On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 12:07, Yuri de Groot wrote: > > Thus spake Paul on this Tue, 03 Dec 2002 : > > ] just build your house as one giant antenna :) > > > > I ain't rebuilding my house - my marriage is too important :-) > > > > ] surely TC have a solution for you Yuri > > > > No company will ever lay cable to rural areas > > unless bound to do so by some contract with the > > gummint (e.g. kiwishare). > > > > Telecon won't bother with adsl in rural areas. > > TelstraClear wouldn't be able to justify laying > > hundreds of km of cable per potential customer. > > > > Wireless solutions look like my only option. > > > > Yuri > > >
