Comments on: Super-Fast Broadband Via the Sewer System

By: Rose

Rose — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:34:37 +0000

This is something good news, even in recent news there was a news that now net will be available with Lightning fast. As the use age of net is being increasing day by day such technology will help for internet users.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:05:24 +0000

Ironically, fiber optics cables are not wires per se, they conduct like via solid plastic fibers (optical waveguides) not copper pair as most of the older telecommunications is based on.

Not everything can be done or should be done wirelessly. There are frequencies and bandwidth restrictions for many different areas. As well as certain materials either reflect and distort or absorb these signals making it almost impossible in some areas to use wireless.

I am sure some of you are familiar with a dropped call on a cell phone. Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, and other newer signaling is similar in hot and cold spots (or cell phone providers call them “dead” spots).

Another thing about wireless communication, the standard Wi-Fi and Wi-Max configurations on a Wireless Access Point (WAP for short) is about 50 users before it really has problems. There are a couple of WAPs that can handle 64 users at a time but the people that are closer to the WAP get better service than the people further away, sometimes the people more than twice the distance from the WAP get dropped.

There is a lot of stuff that needs to be ironed out in the future for wireless usage and interfacing. I hope this clears up some of the misunderstandings of technology.

Our best best for long distance wireless connections (albeit slower speeds) currently is Wi-Max for Internet connections (WANs) and Wi-Fi for our wireless LANs if you were to go almost completely wireless.

I am formerly of that field in the electronics engineering side of things.

By: E-Stealth

E-Stealth — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:27:04 +0000

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By: sockpuppets

sockpuppets — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:41:59 +0000

I’ve never been happier to have a ***** connection!

By: Ally

Ally — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:49:14 +0000

Hey this is a good idea even though its in a sewer and rats could chew through the wire but we could just put metal caseings around the wires which wouldnt be very hard. and yeah most stuff from the internet comes from a sewer anyway =P

By: andk

andk — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:56:36 +0000

Man, I wish they’d upgrade my sh**ty internet infrastructure.

By: stever

stever — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:02:34 +0000

*** Rats can chew through copper wire ***

They are laying fibre optic actually.

By: J.Doe

J.Doe — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:55:43 +0000

Bournemouth sadly doesn’t get to lay claim to being the first ‘UK’ to utilise the sewer network to run fibre optic cable, it’s also old news in London as can be seen in this pic on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/jondoe_264/1235440615/

Still a cool story though, says the man who explores sewers.

By: al dickens

al dickens — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:35:01 +0000

Possible problems:-
Isn’t this going to impede sewer flow, reducing flow rate? Yes I now the sewers are big, but they surely need to be smooth too, to avoid gunk building up.
What about chemical and bio attack (bacterial, rats, …) of the cables from the sewer contents?
Surely it will be a hindrance when drains are needed to be cleared – the cleaning rods -or whatever gets used on big sewers – will snag the cables.
This sound like a project to leave as soon as it is implemented, as the maintenance will not be pleasant.