Pros & Cons

Any reason why people living within miles of their office could not use this as WFH solution over a telephone line?

Other than hardware, it must be cheaper than ADSL & upto 15mbs :D

Anything else?

Not sure BT would be to happy running LRE over the standard telephone lines of your home - As far as I'm aware its for corporate type tel lines only.

It works in a simillar fashion to ADSL so in theory you could initiate a call to your office and have it working over voice copper - its what its designed for.

Puff,

LRE (Long Reach Ethernet) currently cannot be used over BT copper lines due LRE interfering with other things that run over the line. Also I don't think that it will work very well at the distances most BT copper pairs run for. Even if you want to run an a copper pair (I think is an EPS8 circuit) from you office to somebodys house you would have to do it via the local exchange. You might want to have a look at private DSL circuits or something like that. Instead of connecting the DSL line to an SP they connect two DSL lines together using ATM instead.

An interesting fact is that it will also work over barbed wire, washing line, speaker cable, almost anything that can conduct an electrical signal.

5-15 Mbps at distances up to 5,000 feet (1,524 meters).

Si

[Edited by SiCotty - 10/23/2002 9:49:58 PM]

[Edited by SiCotty - 10/23/2002 10:03:32 PM]

Must phone you later... this morning :eek: