[geeks] FBI vs. bandwidth thieves

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, June 27, 2002 at 19:04:03 (-0400), Kurt Huhn wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] FBI vs. bandwidth thieves
>
> Well, not fiber to the box, but there's an odd boxy thing on the side of my
> house that the coax cable comes out.

There could be pretty much anything at all in the box on the side of the
house, though I expect at most there's a splitter and maybe some pads.
That box is also likely the demarcation point between their part of the
signal distribution plant and the inside wiring for your house.  It's
almost certain that there's coax going into that box too.

The only "fiber-to-the-home" projects I'm aware of are those by
Futureway (there may be others in the USA or even Europe that I'm not
aware of, of course), and it went from being fiber-to-the-home to being
just fiber-to-the-curb before it went into production
(www.futureway.ca), and even that's got them into trouble because they
made/make claims about being 100% underground (and bad things happen
when you put electronics in below-curb pedestals in arbitrary new
housing developments where the very landscape has been drastically
altered and no civil engineer will guarantee water table levels until
several years down the road!)

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