who the hell needs this?

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Originally Posted by TOPGEAR502 hmm... 2000000 ft. 609.9 Kilometres or 378.8 miles I guess thats good for cable companies to set up high speed connections in rural areas.

i don't rely think it would be pheasable foe them to lay rely expensive cable for rural aera's,
2 my knowlage in australia there is several cables similiar to this conecting the major city's

[enigmatic]

Originally Posted by TOPGEAR502 I guess thats good for cable companies to set up high speed connections in rural areas.

very, very rural areas! :shock:

whats the distance between, say, Perth and Melbourne?
a few thousand km's? 600kms of fibre optice cable isnt going to cut it.. so its not all that much when you think about it..
..or maybe it is.. i dont know. :roll: