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Using IR Lasers Instead of Fiber
Artifice_Eternity writes: "Can't deal with the trouble, time or expense of digging up the street to get fiberoptic cable to your building in the big city? There's another way...infrared line-of-sight infrared lasers between your building and another one nearby. Repeaters and redundancy can keep the chain going reliably for miles, with gigabit data transmission rates."
Dude, I think its past your bedtime... go to bed
sudo eat my shorts
Oh my God! These things attract LIGHTNING? Well, I guess that just makes them completely unusable, then. It's too bad... if only we had some sort of device that could protect (lightning) things from lightning (rod)...
Like yours is?
But they where very happy when they got a copper link, since they could count on loosing net connection when there was fog.
I find it unlikely that these students would go around "letting loose or releasing" their net connection just because of some benign weather phenomenon. On the other hand, I suppose fog could cause the students to fail to retain an IR link. The word you were looking for is losing.
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So you would loose connection in storms etc.
I doubt that one would consider "letting loose or releasing" a net connection in the event of a storm, unless there were danger of lightning strikes near conducting cable. However, one might fail to retain connectivity of an IR link in a storm. The word you were looking for is lose.
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