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Eight years ago my internet was using a current over a copper wire. Now it's light through glass. The latter is much more efficient especially over longer dista
by radicalbyte 5mo ago
Eight years ago my internet was using a current over a copper wire. Now it's light through glass. The latter is much more efficient especially over longer distances.
- b40d-48b2-979e 5mo agoEight years ago, your ISP was already on light over glass, they just didn't serve it that way to your house.
- radicalbyte 5mo agoWhen I was living in the UK the copper cable was 4.5km long. The reason I know that is because BT denied that there was any copper line installed. So I spoke to the building company who told me they installed the copper cables. Then I wrote a letter to my MP. With his help we got BT to conceed and they hooked us up. It was bad DSL but bad DSL is better than a 56k modem. Nowadays DSL lines are anything from a few 100 meters to 1.5 - 2 kilometers. I don't know much about cable TV.
- ChrisRR 5mo agoBut processing and retranssmission of the data at every network node still takes energy
- Schiendelman 5mo agoAnd plenty of that hardware is more than ten years old.