Wow, this takes me back to my freshman year of college in 1993 and trying to connect computers in different dorm rooms with lengthy serial cables. We eventuall

Wow, this takes me back to my freshman year of college in 1993 and trying to connect computers in different dorm rooms with lengthy serial cables. We eventually got it to work, but I remember it took a couple days of tinkering. In the summer after that year, the school networked all of the on campus housing via ethernet, so connecting things the following year was much easier.