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saridder writes: "Cisco has demonstrated their latest last mile technology,
and not only can you now have 10 MB Ethernet over Cat3, Cat2, Cat1, try lamp
power cord, battery jumper terminals, barbed wire, etc. This may have solved the last mile problem, and at 10 MB, it blows DSL out of the water."
I hope that this technology can help me get away from @Home er, ATT...
Moderation: Put your hand inside the puppet head!
Does this mean we're getting closer to bein able to wire mp3s lightning fast on a tin can system? :D
Is it just me, or did anyone else think "huge bare ass" when they saw "Hugh Barrass" in this article?
Actually, I was trying to be Insightful, not Funny.
Hey, I just went out and bought a spool of barbed wire, only to discover that Cisco hasn't yet developed Ethernet-over-barbed-wire technology.
I guess I'll just have to reattach the alligator clips for my Ethernet-over-city-sewer connection.
That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.
Cisco spokesperson "Hugh Barrass"? Yeah, wait for the Ethernet-over-Jell-O(tm) Puddin' Pops protocol called "IP Freely"...
Carousel is a lie!
Bill has fairly deep pockets. Maybe the settlement should be that he runs barbed wire...er, cat 3 cable...to all of our houses.
Actually, I was trying to be Insightful, not Funny.
...or BWoE. I suspect there would be a number of spikes in the connection.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
Obviously you don't own a back hoe, or you'd know how hard those bastards are to keep track of. Just the other day, when I needed my back hoe to cut some buried fiber optic cable as a final solution to my spam problem, it took me hours to find it. I checked between the couch cushions, where I drop it a lot. Eventually I found it under an empty pizza box; no idea how it got there. I swear it has a mind of its own and crawled there! So give your local telco a break -- I'm sure their building is a lot bigger than my apartment, so they have a lot more space to lose their back hoe in.
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Ethernet over duct tape?
Whatever you cannot build in a quick and dirty way with duct tape is worthless to me.
Trollem mirabilem hanc subnotationis exigiutas non caperet
Yeah, and his daughter Emma doesn't like to be seen in public with him because of his funny name. q:]
(ok, think about it a bit before you mod me down)
MadCow.
I used to have a sig, but I set it free and it never came back.
Someone needs to convert pound-test to bandwidth, and there you go.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Does anyone know which company they bought to obtain this technology?
Where will the bandwidth come from?
Me.
If I had a 10MB connection to my house, I'd mirror shit just to mirror it. I'd download kernels and patches, and tell the maintainers to put me on the list of mirrors. And I wouldn't be alone.
That's one of the reasons that P2P networks work so well. There are so many nodes to get the information from.
Server bandwidth is expensive because it is a scarce commodity. How much do you pay per month for the 100MB connection between your workstation and your server? If you (conveniently) don't count the cost of the infrastructure, the price is zero. Factor in the cost of the infrastructure, and amortize it over the life of the equipment and that number is still ridiculously low. ($70 for two NICs, $80 for a half-decent switch (optional), say it's only good for a year. That's $12.50 a month!)
Server bandwidth is expensive because servers are concentrated into little high traffic nodes. Spread the traffic out (ala freenet, gnutella, morpheus, etc.) and costs drop dramatically. Make bandwidth a commodity, and you will start paying commodity prices.
Back about 4 years ago,
my room-mate discovered that 4 conductor telephone wire was like 2 ¢ / foot when CAT5 was selling for more like 50 ¢ / foot.
He networked our house for like four bucks.
The RJ45 ends were difficult to crimp to the cable
because the cable is so much smaller.
His solution:
Wrap electrical tape around the cable to increase its diameter.
Keep in mind that a 10 base T network only needs 4 of the 8 conductors, but you'll need 8 conductors for 100 Base T.
I do not remember having any bad connections via the cheap cable, but I wouldn't reccommend it unless you're on a college sided budget. Cat5 is cheap.
"Hey, I just got a cable modem; it's so much faster than anything else I've ever used!"
"Oh yeah?! I've got a barbed wire Ethernet line!"
"A what?!"
"A barbed-wire Ethernet line. Haven't you heard of that?"
"Umm... No, I can't say I have."
"Oh... ACME Networks installed it for me last month. It cost a fortune, because there are no barbed wire fences around where I live, so they had to upgrade their entire barbed wire infrastructure; they billed me for like 20 miles of barbed wire fencing."
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Now what I'm waiting for is ethernet-over-railroad-track. I mean, sheeit, that stuff already covers whole continents, no backhoe is going to go through it and it's durned hard to steal. And, at least in the US, there's lots of it that's going underutilized. This could be the recycling innovation of the year.
;-)