Thread: Want 50Mb per second? Forget fibre
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Old 14-09-2003, 20:08   #8
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Originally posted by keithwalton
hmm ye normal style ethernet requires amps at least every 100m or so. If they can manage to get cabs close enough to users it might be feasable, but then that would be 1 per street or more. or at least ampifiers.

K
True, it does. However the cable network is designed to transmit data over far larger distances with minimal amplification. Maybe the new technology for Ethernet over HFC uses this to get past the 100M max distance.
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