On 5/7/20 12:03 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: > In the OP’s case however, the copper plant is private, and wholly owned and > already in operation. So surely in that situation fiber would be much more > expensive to dig and trench.
Indeed, I was responding to Ohta's comments regarding copper vs. fiber. In this case, using DSL over the existing plant seems like a slam dunk unless very high speeds are needed or the plant is in very poor condition. Modern VDSL/2 DSLAMs are relatively inexpensive and will push 100Mbps over surprising distances with essentially seamless fallback to ADSL2+ at ~24Mbps for long-reach situations. -- Brandon Martin
