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Re:10mbps over 1km on a single pair of wires by trollied on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:25AM (#31835118)
A few years ago, revk (owner of an ISP in the UK) did ADSL over wet string: https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...
Re:10mbps over 1km on a single pair of wires by xhrpost on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:33AM (#31835223)
There's also Ethernet over barbed wire: http://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/edn/SoGoodBarbedWire.htm
Re:10mbps over 1km on a single pair of wires by rlonstein on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:47AM (#31835357)
Paraphrasing the old joke about getting a dry pair, must be an SBC customer.
Re:10mbps over 1km on a single pair of wires by gorkish on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @04:51PM (#31841702)
Back in the day I ran X.25 over an actual barbed wire fence for a customer. It connected a serial terminal in a field house at a local feedyard back to their SCO box in the main office. Probably about 1500 feet. It was reliable!
Re:10mbps over 1km on a single pair of wires by justcodin on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:49AM (#31835384)
wow
Re:10mbps over 1km on a single pair of wires by aidos on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @10:07AM (#31836157)
The HN post at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29440681

RevK is the owner of AAISP (an xkcd/806 compliant organisation).

Re:10mbps over 1km on a single pair of wires by ComputerGuru on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @12:33PM (#31838213)
Re:10mbps over 1km on a single pair of wires by yosheli123 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:26AM (#31835140)
That's brilliant!