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Old 03-06-18, 09:54 PM   #6
where2
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Originally Posted by NiHaoMike View Post
Nowadays, if a phone line fails, the ISP is likely to replace it with fiber.
Except where I live!! I wish I could get fiber in my neighborhood. This antique (1959) copper is complete garbage. When it rains, I get static, or crackles. I have fiber to my farm in a rural town (823 people) in Northern Maine. (500Mbps down, 700Mbps up, 15ms ping times) I can't get fiber to my suburban residence in South Florida, but my village can get fiber to the public works building where they park the garbage trucks.

My 100' of phone in conduit (3/4") right on top of 100' of 240Vac in conduit has no discernible issues with hum or pickup. I'd pull fiber through my phone line conduit in a heartbeat, if they'd pull it down my block.

Hardened underground utilities in my neighborhood is a pipe dream. The money the utility makes on decades of storm surcharges for repairs after a hurricane basically ensure the utilities will never bury their lines.
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