[Gllug] Home grown DSL

[Jackson, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Gray [mailto:timgray at numasters.com]
> 
> Here Harry, don't you work for the competition ;)

Indeed I do HAHAHAHAHAH

> 
> AFAIK DSL will only work at short distances <5Km I think. So 
> its only really practical over your local exchange.

Correct line loss get a bit crazy after a few K's and you loose the
bandwidth. Not to mention interference etc


Another idea is similar to Consume only runs on copper. If there where 200
people dotted all around the London area you could ask BT for the hire of a
copper from the two furthest exchanges from yourself within the ADSL range.
Your mate who lives 2 miles on the other side of the exchange asks for one
and you can both meet at the exchange with your copper. Put a box of some
description there and you effectively have a network although small. Now if
you had lots of people doing this in different directions then you could end
up with quite a robust network as each person has 2 copper cables to the
house and if it got big enough you would end up with redundancy at the
exchange. Of course this is assuming a lot and assume made an ass out of u
and me.

Harry


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