And what's up with end user? Today final mile is fiber too. It will be just a question of end user intellect, if he will be able to power up his router and computers in abscence of mains power. Normal people have UPS for their computer tech. Rural inhabitants for shure have gas/gasoline/diesel generators. Others should suffer.
But the computer in the house or cell phone is unprotected. I agree the infrastructure will be viable, but who keeps a backup computer in a faraday cage?
But the computer in the house or cell phone is unprotected.
They are too small in size to receive solar storm pulse. There is no length to induce any significant current. Only way devices of suc size could be affected by solar storm is when they are on the orbit, and even in that case it is not electromagnetic, but just high energy charged particles interfere with electronics. Since we are covered by atmosphere, this charged particles could not reach your computer/phone, all you will get in the worst case is aurora flares high in the sky.
Of course, there could be some interference with radio frequesnces for the duration of solar storm, but radio noise could not damage your devices too.
Solar storm is not like microwave oven irradiating everything on the Earth surface. It is like one period of powerful ultralow frequency wave. It will induce huge unwanted currents in the miles long power lines, but will do nothing with objects of computer/phone size. Size matters, despite any feministic propaganda. :)
Yet you think everyone has state of the art internet?! Are you lying about that, or lying about where you live? One of the biggest complaints is that internet companies keep taking grants to provide internet to areas, don't do their job, AGAIN... And still get another grant to do nothing.
Yet you think everyone has state of the art internet?!
IDK, Russia is not the most technically developed country, so if even far Russian villages have fiber, then West for shure have at least same level of internetisation. I don't see any problem to have fiber along the power lines. If you have mains power in rural area, then you certainly have to have fiber on power poles. Fiber is dirt cheap and don't need any maintenance at all, if only it was not torn by fallen tree.
One of the biggest complaints is that internet companies keep taking grants to provide internet to areas, don't do their job
Wait a second. You mean internet companies need grants to do their business? Isn't it profitable to throw fiber line to a village over existing power line poles and have permanent money flow from it? Even if you connect 10 houses with $10 monthly payments in a village 10km away from nearby optics muff, then your fiber will be paid off in less than a year. Here, most providers just take around $100 for hookup per house and that instantly covers all their installation costs.
I can't imagine anything cheaper and more reliable with lower maintenance cost than fiber line.
Of course there exists villages somewhere in Siberia or far North without electricity and even normal roads, hundreds of miles from any infrastructure but it is an exception and mostly it is a settlements of indigenous nomad tribes. There are also abandoned villages, but as soon as somebody settled there, electric company is ready to connect it back and so internet providers goes after soon.
Even most dachas (vacation housing villages) which populated only at summer time, have decent internet connectivity today.
What are you talking about? How throwing a dozen miles of cheap as dirt fiber could be something problematic for any developed country?
And what's up with end user? Today final mile is fiber too. It will be just a question of end user intellect, if he will be able to power up his router and computers in abscence of mains power. Normal people have UPS for their computer tech. Rural inhabitants for shure have gas/gasoline/diesel generators. Others should suffer.
But the computer in the house or cell phone is unprotected. I agree the infrastructure will be viable, but who keeps a backup computer in a faraday cage?
They are too small in size to receive solar storm pulse. There is no length to induce any significant current. Only way devices of suc size could be affected by solar storm is when they are on the orbit, and even in that case it is not electromagnetic, but just high energy charged particles interfere with electronics. Since we are covered by atmosphere, this charged particles could not reach your computer/phone, all you will get in the worst case is aurora flares high in the sky.
Of course, there could be some interference with radio frequesnces for the duration of solar storm, but radio noise could not damage your devices too.
Solar storm is not like microwave oven irradiating everything on the Earth surface. It is like one period of powerful ultralow frequency wave. It will induce huge unwanted currents in the miles long power lines, but will do nothing with objects of computer/phone size. Size matters, despite any feministic propaganda. :)
You clearly live in a city.
You miss. I live deep in a forest. :)
Yet you think everyone has state of the art internet?! Are you lying about that, or lying about where you live? One of the biggest complaints is that internet companies keep taking grants to provide internet to areas, don't do their job, AGAIN... And still get another grant to do nothing.
This isn't even new.
IDK, Russia is not the most technically developed country, so if even far Russian villages have fiber, then West for shure have at least same level of internetisation. I don't see any problem to have fiber along the power lines. If you have mains power in rural area, then you certainly have to have fiber on power poles. Fiber is dirt cheap and don't need any maintenance at all, if only it was not torn by fallen tree.
Wait a second. You mean internet companies need grants to do their business? Isn't it profitable to throw fiber line to a village over existing power line poles and have permanent money flow from it? Even if you connect 10 houses with $10 monthly payments in a village 10km away from nearby optics muff, then your fiber will be paid off in less than a year. Here, most providers just take around $100 for hookup per house and that instantly covers all their installation costs.
I can't imagine anything cheaper and more reliable with lower maintenance cost than fiber line.
Of course there exists villages somewhere in Siberia or far North without electricity and even normal roads, hundreds of miles from any infrastructure but it is an exception and mostly it is a settlements of indigenous nomad tribes. There are also abandoned villages, but as soon as somebody settled there, electric company is ready to connect it back and so internet providers goes after soon.
Even most dachas (vacation housing villages) which populated only at summer time, have decent internet connectivity today.
What are you talking about? How throwing a dozen miles of cheap as dirt fiber could be something problematic for any developed country?