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Ethernet Over Assorted Materials

Posted by timothy on from the as-long-as-the-bits-are-bits dept.

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."

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  1. Barbed wire? by ENOENT · · Score: 5, 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.

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  2. Sigh... by Saint+Aardvark · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cisco spokesperson "Hugh Barrass"? Yeah, wait for the Ethernet-over-Jell-O(tm) Puddin' Pops protocol called "IP Freely"...

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  3. Barbed wire over ethernet by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...or BWoE. I suspect there would be a number of spikes in the connection.

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  4. Re:Riiight ... and where will the bandwidth come f by srvivn21 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.