Vermont high speed internet...via horse?

[cali]

Mark Gould, Multimedia Journalist 3 hrs ago

(NBC) -- There is a unique twist to a plan to bring Vermont into the future.

The state's using a slow-speed method to expand access to high-speed Internet.

Horses are being used to pull Vermont into the modern world by pulling cable to homes situated on rugged terrain that trucks and ATVs can't handle.



Cool video at link:

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/regional/story.aspx?storyid=151284&catid=46

[Kali]

1. ha!

here I sit 100 yards from a dozen or more fiber-optic conduits (not lines, 2 inch id conduits that hold I-don't-know-how-many lines) using dial-up on a phone line that is at least 60 or 70 years old:crazy: