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+Saul Moreno Sorry, I don't have the time or the resources to be able to do that.

+Pierre - Louis Stannies Thank you Pierre. You're lucky you can get 16mbps via DSL. I don't understand the phone company's. They need to dump their copper pairs and go with either fiber or coax. Otherwise, their speeds will be 10 percent of what the competition can offer. Some of the phone companies have made the switch to fiber right to your house. It's available in just about every town around me except mine. It works very well and can deliver very high speeds. With the Docsis 3 cable standard, the cable company is keeping up with whatever the phone company is doing with their fiber. As far as I can tell, Coax has an economic advantage at this point, otherwise the cable company's would switch from coax to fiber. For once, I don't feel like I need any more internet speed. I felt that way at 50 mbps but the cable company doubled the speed and didn't charge anything more for it. I was just surprised one day when I did a speed test.One disadvantage that we have here is that only the carrier to last resort is required to serve everyone regardless of expense. Sometimes I find that the cable company doesn't want to provide service to one of our business locations because it would be too expensive. Thus we get stuck with DSL.I think that the cable providers should have to serve everyone. No exceptions and they need to realize that some customers will be really easy to connect, others not so easy.I hope you guys don't have that problem.Thanks again for the info.Have a nice evening. 

+Pierre - Louis Stannies Thank you Pierre. My friend in Schleswig-Holstein has mentioned the underground electric as well. New developments over here tend to go with underground utilities. It's not much more expensive if you do it when the street goes in. To retrofit an existing neighborhood you need to take land from existing property owners to put the utilities in. The underground utilities have the advantage of you don't often have problems with them. When you do, it's more difficult to fix them. Overall, I favor underground utilities. I'm in a good spot, there is a high tension line feeding the substation about a mile from me. The wiring is aerial coming to our street but it is amazingly reliable. I bought a generator in 92 because just had to have one and I've only used it a couple of times. During the ice storms of a few years ago, no problem, cable and electricity stayed on.That is unusual, most of the town and surrounding towns were in the dark. We were fine. I don't even bother getting the generator ready for a storm anymore. The power company cuts the trees back so the power and cable internet has been superb. We're the exception, not the rule.As far the high voltage lines, they're a problem, the voltage is so high you can't really bury them. They are ugly. We have them here of course and people get upset when new ones are proposed.Gas and water are all underground of course.If you want to have a laugh, look up some old pictures of New York City with more telephone lines than you could imagine were possible. It was ridiculous.The problem with the wind turbines is that they're big, ugly, and only produce so much power. I consider them a major eye sore. However, I haven't seen what their output is. If it's enough then it may be worth having the eye sore there.We have a solar farm on the other side of town. No idea what the capacity is though. It's not an eye sore like wind turbines. We have a lot of wind turbines, especially in the mid west.The only thing I don't understand about the solar farm is that the panels are near the ground. Seems to me they should have put them up higher and put a shopping center underneath it or something. Get more use out of the land.I hate to say it but I am in favor of nuclear power. We have a plant near the ocean, 15 km from here. Only one reactor, the stupid protesters kept them from activating unit 2. It's too bad, it's been running for a few decades without any problems. Would have been nicer if it was generating twice as much electricity.We had a plant decommissioned in the western part of the state. Ran for 30 or 40 years, no problems, decommissioned, torn down, and I'm not sure what is there now.We certainly have enough cell phone (handi) towers around. In this area there are 5 separate networks, some places have 6. Fortunately they usually co-locate on the same tower.I noticed that in watching videos of Germany you don't seem to see too many.We have hidden ones, of course, but most stick out like a sore thumb.I'm on the phone all the time so they don't bother me.I can see that in many areas of Germany with the really nice architecture, a phone tower would really be out of place.We have those types of areas too.Sometimes they use a distributed network that has omnidirectional antennas on telephone poles. They usually will carry 4 networks and when you are driving through one of those areas, the service is good.That's the story. Thanks for the information on Germany.Have a good work week.Tschuess 

+Scott Currier BTW: Internet speeds in Germany are quite similar. They offer me up to 200 Mbit/s via cable but only 16 Mbit/s via DSL. You're absolutely right. this kind of offer is a bad joke, nothing more. :)

+Scott Currier Most power, gas and telephone lines are underground in Germany. It's not very common operating them above ground except of high voltage lines, supposed to deliver electricity throughout Germany. There's been a debate over those lines, because there are many new ones currently under way. While they're supposed to deliver wind energy from northern to southern Germany, some people argue that their poles would somehow disfigure the landscape. This leading to the ambivalent situation that people are demanding more green energy facilities but at the same time are opposing the powerlines necessary to deliver it to them.Having the majority of lines underground can be very expensive, but in my 23 year lifetime I've never experienced a blackout our something. So I'm in favor of laying them underground.

+rewbossThank you. Burying high voltage or I should say super high voltage lines can be a problem because the electricity wants to get to ground. We're getting more and more neighborhoods with underground utilities, especially new neighborhoods. If they put the utilities underground when they make the neighborhood it isn't that much more expensive. The drawback is that if  you have a flooding issue it's generally more expensive and time consuming and difficult to fix. So basically you may have fewer problems with underground utilities but when you do have a problem, it could take a little longer to get it fixed. That's what a utility over here said on their web site. I am in favor of buried utilities. While we are on the subject of utilites, I'm curious as to what you have for internet availability. Over here is ranges from very fast to very slow. In my area we only have one provider than is providing reasonably high speed internet. I have 105/10 mbps at home. The service tops out at about 155 mbps if you want to pay a little more  but 105 is overkill. That's via Cable.  The competition is a DSL company and they are offering only about 6 mbps or maybe a bit quicker. Kind of a joke. Other towns around us have one provider that uses fiber to the premises and the other provider using coaxial cable. I believe that the top speeds in those areas are `300 mpbs although I have heard that they have gone to 500 mbps. A very few select areas have 1gbps delivered via fiber. In very rural areas you may only have DSL and your speed may be limited to anywhere from .5 mbps up to 20-30 mbps using bonded DSL to get those speeds. There are some really rural areas where you are limited to satellite internet or dialup. If you remember dialup. That's the story. I'm fortunate to be in an area where decent internet is available. Thanks for your input. Tschuss.

+Scott CurrierVery high tension lines normally go above ground, but in the cities and larger towns the distribution lines are normally underground, yes.

Thank you. Didn't see electric lines on the streets. Distribution must be underground? That's getting more popular over here.

It's an electricity substation. Power comes in, and is distributed to different parts of the village.

Good, video can be deceiving. Thank you for your input.

No, they're just fine.

That you for the reply RewBoss. I'm not really looking to compare them to anything, let me rephrase the question. When you're riding or driving do you get the feeling that the roads are narrower than they should be or do they feel just fine? Thank you again for your time. Tschüss

Narrow compared to what?