Re: Common House Technology Cost Savings
From: Tim Mensch (tim-coho-lbitgems.com)
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 13:43:42 -0700 (PDT)
Robert Heinich wrote:
That's great!  Who built the infrastructure to distribute the signal and who 
maintains the infrastructure?  Maybe I should look into redistributing FiOS 
when it comes into our area.
I'm not clear on all the details of exactly how it was started, since it was before I moved in, but I believe they just ran CAT-5 cable to each building from the common house in "underground" cable pipes--and they did it during special work parties for the purpose. I quote "underground" because I know at least one of them ends up basically on the surface for part of its run. Once at the building the cable goes to a 100Mbps switch, and each household already had CAT-5 wires carrying phone lines to each outlet from the phone sheds.

By the way, they also tried using wireless connections to distribute the signal first--and despite having really nice antennas mounted on the rooftops in line-of-sight to each other, they were never able to get them to work reliably. YMMV.

As to maintenance, we have a committee that does it, of course. :)

Tim

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Tim Mensch

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