[geeks] FBI vs. bandwidth thieves

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu Jun 27 18:07:48 CDT 2002


On June 27, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> >   Huh?  You mean it's pure digital coming off the wire?  How the hell
> > do they do that...is it fiber to the box?
> 
> Well, not fiber to the box, but there's an odd boxy thing on the side of my
> house that the coax cable comes out.  I could be wrong, it's happened before,
> but I was told by someon that is *supposed* to know.  I've not done the
> research, don't know how this cable-internet thing works, and I don't care to
> learn - so chances are that I'm grossly misinformed.

  There's definitely some broadband modulation going on there, then.

      -Dave

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