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To: Jim S who wrote (31101)5/8/1999 3:02:00 PM
From: John Stichnoth  Read Replies (1) of 36349
 
>>probably too far down the line (pun intended) to get charged up about. :-)

Watch out, Jim. Two puns in one sentence might get you suspended from SI. <g>

>>-they are mostly above ground, and susceptible to atmospheric RF problems, including lightening and broadcast signals, as well as shifting impedance due to humidity, temperature, and even birds.

That's a problem for telephone lines, too, isn't it. And they solved it for dsl.

I don't have an answer for your other points, which seem to be the bigger obstacles. (But "transformers and filters" sounds like the same kind of things DSL faced.)

I'll have to go back further to see the prior discussions.
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