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A UK techie with a sense of humor may have found an alternative to expensive corporate broadband cables: wet string. The engineer was able to reach a downlink speed of 3.5Mbps, which is slow by today's standards, but way faster than yesteryear's dial-up internet speeds, albeit over a short distance.
Broadband services are a wonderful innovation of our time, using multiple frequency bands to carry signals over wires. One of the key aspects of the technology is its ability to adapt to the length and characteristics of the line on which it is deployed. It has always been said that ADSL will work over a bit of wet string. Well, one of our techies took it upon himself to try it today at the office.
Broadband services are a wonderful innovation of our time, using multiple frequency bands to carry signals over wires. One of the key aspects of the technology is its ability to adapt to the length and characteristics of the line on which it is deployed. It has always been said that ADSL will work over a bit of wet string. Well, one of our techies took it upon himself to try it today at the office.