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Re:$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles f... by jaclaz on Monday January 03, 2022 @11:51AM (#29782799)
And remember to straighten them periodically, bends can be very bad for data flow ...

Only for the record the historical coat hangers test: https://web.archive.org/web/20081104211239/https://consumeri...

and a 2019 re-make:

https://www.soundguys.com/cable-myths-reviving-the-coathange...

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Re:$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles f... by mTrebuchet on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:30PM (#29786357)
That experiment made me immediately think of this ADSL over wet string test: https://hackaday.com/2017/12/14/adsl-robustness-verified-by-...

I wonder if ADSL over wet string helps the guitar sounds really reverberate in my spotify streams.

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Re:$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles f... by envp on Monday January 03, 2022 @12:21PM (#29783264)
Bits tend to get squashed moving through bends right? Centrifugal force and all that

/S

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Re:$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles f... by jaclaz on Monday January 03, 2022 @01:02PM (#29783901)
Not all bits, the 0's, due to friction on the sides, might be slower, while the 1's are slimmer, but since they have edges they might get stuck in the bends (but on the other hand they are good at cleaning the pipes).

Some pseudo-reference, JFYI:

https://msfn.org/board/topic/154863-the-meta-sata-pataphysic...

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Re:$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles f... by wussboy on Monday January 03, 2022 @01:33PM (#29784379)
I worry sometimes that AWS sometimes runs out of 1s and begins quietly replacing them with lowercase Ls. I can tell the difference, but not everyone can.
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