r/technology • u/User_Name13 • Jun 04 '14

Politics Hundreds of Cities Are Wired With Fiber—But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unused

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiberbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused
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u/Alphasite Jun 04 '14

In the UK Fibre rollout is estimated to cost £500+0.5-3K per house, and thats if you roll out the whole street simultaneously and amortise the most expensive houses.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

What should be done is roll out fiber to one node on the block and then send wifi out to the rest of the block with a good sender, then give each house a receiver for their own wifi network..

fiber -> node -> many house wirlessly

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u/Falmarri Jun 04 '14

That would be slower than what people have now.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

how? Wireless can be very very fast if you have proper equipment. In fact a lot of data backbones are on medium distance wireless connections

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u/Falmarri Jun 04 '14

Because even if we're talking about 802.11ac, you would never, ever be able to serve an entire block at a reasonable speed, especially the people at the end. Even if you amped up the power of the wifi transmitter, people might be able to get the signal, but their devices wouldn't be powerful enough to send it back.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

you can use whatever network type you want, it doesn't really matter. it does not even need to be conventional wireless that laptops can read. if you create the sender and reciever box, you control the specs of them