Sewer Internet Service

[piasabird]

Some people might say the sewer and the Internet were made for each other.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2.../24/h20_sewer_rollout/

100mb sewer service.

I need someone to come out and check my cable . . .

You want me to put this into that? . . . I dont think so.

 

[TheTony]

I wonder if their service is crappy...

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: TheTony
I wonder if their service is crappy...

I heard over the years it went down the toilet.

 

[0roo0roo]

hm i doubt the workers are happy about this lol

 

[Slick5150]

Wasn't this Google's April Fools Day joke?

 

[funkymatt]

Originally posted by: Slick5150
Wasn't this Google's April Fools Day joke?

pretty close
http://www.google.com/tisp/

 

[ViviTheMage]

this was actually posted on BBR YEARS ago....and all the same 'crap' jokes were made.

 

[D1gger]

There are a bunch of technical issues with this, not the least of which is that in my city many of the sanitary sewers are at or near capacity and putting a cable into the pipe would effect the capacity of the main through a change in flow characteristics and cross section volume.

My company actually installs sewer/water/storm mains and conduit for power & communications. In the past, we have used abandoned water-mains for fibre installations, but we have not yet been asked to run fibre in live sewers.

 

[AnthroAndStargate]

Originally posted by: D1gger
There are a bunch of technical issues with this, not the least of which is that in my city many of the sanitary sewers are at or near capacity and putting a cable into the pipe would effect the capacity of the main through a change in flow characteristics and cross section volume.

My company actually installs sewer/water/storm mains and conduit for power & communications. In the past, we have used abandoned water-mains for fibre installations, but we have not yet been asked to run fibre in live sewers.

This may sound like a dumb question but is there a place on the internet where I can learn about how the sewer system works in detail. Specifically what you said about the flow characteristics being altered by the fiber.

That sounds really interesting... especially for a non-engineering person like me.