Ethernet Over Assorted Materials 323
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."
With @Home and ATT... (Score:2, Funny)
Ooh (Score:2, Funny)
Strange for of dyslexia? (Score:3, Funny)
Barbed wire? (Score:5, Funny)
I guess I'll just have to reattach the alligator clips for my Ethernet-over-city-sewer connection.
Sigh... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This solves nothing (Score:1, Funny)
Barbed wire over ethernet (Score:4, Funny)
Re:No it does not solve the last mile problem (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Barbed wire? (Score:3, Funny)
So when do we get... (Score:2, Funny)
Whatever you cannot build in a quick and dirty way with duct tape is worthless to me.
Re:Huge BareAss? (Score:3, Funny)
(ok, think about it a bit before you mod me down)
MadCow.
Fiber-Optics Over Fishing Line (FOOFL) (Score:3, Funny)
Someone needs to convert pound-test to bandwidth, and there you go.
Which company? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Riiight ... and where will the bandwidth come f (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Is this news? (Score:2, Funny)
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.
My Connection... (Score:3, Funny)
"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."
Recycle the OG Network! (Score:2, Funny)
;-)