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Around 1998 I was working for a small mom and pop computer/networking shop and had a customer successfully run Ethernet over barbed wire so he could network bet
by steverb 12y ago
Around 1998 I was working for a small mom and pop computer/networking shop and had a customer successfully run Ethernet over barbed wire so he could network between his house (where the main computer was) and his barn.
It was about a fifty foot run at 1Mbps. He did have issues when it rained, once the posts got wet enough to ground the wires.
- agumonkey 12y agoI knew rain affected wifi cantennas, now it messes with wired networking too.
- vlunkr 12y agoOnly if your wires are exposed
- na85 12y agoHow on earth did he manage that? Didn't the barbs cause shorts where they touched the individual twisted metal strands?
- mrbill 12y agoCisco actually demonstrated Ethernet over barbed wire (and other materials) back in '02. http://slashdot.org/story/02/01/03/2039218/ethernet-over-assorted-materials http://slashdot.org/story/02/01/03/2039218/ethernet-over-ass...
- vacri 12y agoBarbs are wrapped around the twin wires, yes, but the twin wires are already touching each other. But a fence will usually have more than one strand of wire (though not always barbed) - I imagine one stand was Tx and a different strand was Rx.
- steverb 12y agoYes. That was more or less how he did it. Spliced some coax to alligator clips. One strand for the inner, one strand for the outer (if memory serves).