dold@XReXXPower.usenet.us.com wrote:
> Peter Pan <PeterPanNOSPAM@akamailnospam.com> wrote:
>> In my location (Rural area, 10 acre parcels), my neighbor to the
>> north (about 1/2 mile away, but on the same power transformer), and
>> the 6 buildings on his property (various sons/daughters/in
>> laws/etc), same to the south, but only two houses (father and son),
>> were all on the same network (I had sat internet, no cable or dsl,
>> and shared it with the
>
> Your neighbor, 1/2 mile away, is on the same transformer?
> That's not the way it's done here.
> With 10 acre parcels, everyone is on their own transformer.
> My last place had a transformer on my property, 150 feet from the
> street, and 500 feet from a neighbor, who had his own transformer at
> the street.
>
> At my current place, there are no more than two houses per
> transformer, with drops about 150 feet long, maybe 200. The houses
> that are located toward the back of the lots have high voltage runs
> to their transformers on premise.
>
> In "the big city", I recall that half the block, maybe 10 houses, was
> on a single transformer.

Yup.. Remember, it's Northern Idaho, gets about 3-4 FEET of snow per
winter.. Power water phone are underground (no utility poles at all), same
at my dads place in Tampa (hurricane area, everything is underground, cept
he has cable and sanitary sewer).. In Vegas, they had underground power
vaults (no utility poles) in newer subdisions and megacomplexes.. Come to
think of it, my sisters old place was in a subdivision where everything is
underground too (transformers were on poles, one lightning strike and 20 to
30 houses would go dark), but her new place (an older house) has wires on
poles in the back yard.