Goodbye Telstra, Hullo ACTEW (FYI)

[Tom Worthington]

At 03:32 PM 9/10/97 +1000, Ross Kelso wrote:

>My understanding is that ... the power companies string optical fibre 
>along their HV (22kV) pole lines and the transmission conversion occurs 
>at each distribution transformer (22kV/415V) whereupon the data is carried 
>'piggy-back' along each of the 3 phases (415,240V) to the homes...

Why not transmit the signal through the air for that short distance? It will
be hard enough keeping the signal in a bit of unshielded power cable anyway.

On my way to the snow last weekend I dropped in on Smart Radio Systems at
Cooma, who sell cute wireless modem products carrying about 1.6 Mbps:
http://www.snowy.net.au/srs.html

PS: Snow was good: http://www.ramin.com.au/online/destinations/snow97.html


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