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A few years ago, revk (owner of an ISP in the UK) did ADSL over wet string: https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet-string.html https://www
by trollied 4y ago
A few years ago, revk (owner of an ISP in the UK) did ADSL over wet string: https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet-string.html https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...
- yosheli123 4y agoThat's brilliant!
- xhrpost 4y agoThere's also Ethernet over barbed wire: http://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/edn/SoGoodBarbedWire.htm http://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/edn/SoGoodBarbedWire.htm
- gorkish 4y agoBack in the day I ran X.25 over an actual barbed wire fence for a customer. It connected a serial terminal in a field house at a local feedyard back to their SCO box in the main office. Probably about 1500 feet. It was reliable!
- rlonstein 4y agoParaphrasing the old joke about getting a dry pair, must be an SBC customer.
- justcodin 4y agowow
- aidos 4y agoThe HN post at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29440681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29440681 RevK is the owner of AAISP (an xkcd/806 compliant organisation).
- ComputerGuru 4y agohttps://xkcd.com/806/ https://xkcd.com/806/ https://www.revk.uk/2010/10/xkcd806-compliance.html?m=1 https://www.revk.uk/2010/10/xkcd806-compliance.html?m=1