[BC] Old 2500 WE Telephone...

[Ron Cole]

Thats Odd I have Fios at home and have not notiecd any inteferance.
AM Radio as well as 75m and up seems to be just fine.  My FIOS box is like
15' from the ham shack.

Ron
N5HYH

On 6/5/06, Paul Smith W4KNX <paul at amtower.com> wrote:
>
> You are right and wrong.  The old way was to run a fiber line to a
> terminal
> and have short copper runs to homes and businesses.  Here in Sarasota now,
> Verizon is running fiber right up to the house/business.  That fiber has
> up
> to 10 phone lines, internet up to 30 Meg, and over 200 TV channels.  It
> has
> a battery backup, good for about 24 hours.  I've had it for about 6 months
> now.  Works great, except the box they installed generated a huge amount
> of
> RF interference.  The AM band in my house is almost useless except for the
> strongest signals.  I've been working with them to get this
> resolved.  They
> didnt want to admit it's a problem, but I have their attention now.
>
> Paul Smith
> W4KNX
> Sarasota, FL
>
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> Subject: Re: [BC] Old 2500 WE Telephone...
>
>
>
> >than a $9 Radio Shack special. Also, I understand that new fiber
> >installations require a power supply at the location. Fiber doesn't seem
> >to conduct electricity well.
> >
> >Rich
>
> Fiber to the home (at least, Verizon's trials in the Dallas, TX area) have
> a small battery back up. Approximately 24 hours run time.
>
> Fiber to the neighborhood - you'll see a buried "vault", or large above
> ground cabinet - those run 24-96 hours to provide dial tone and data
> services to the neighborhood. Usually, the phoneco runs fiber to the
> vault,
> then uses existing copper to the homes. Great, until there is an extended
> power outage (think hurricane).
>
>
>
>
>
> mwe
>
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