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ADSL works over wet string (2017)


Broadband services are a wonderful innovation of our time, using multiple frequency  bands  (hence the name) to carry signals over wires (us...

Broadband services are a wonderful innovation of our time, using multiple frequency bands(hence the name) to carry signals over wires (usually copper, sometimes aluminium). It shows the importance of handling faults that seem to just be "low speed".As a bonus, fit tin cans to both ends and you get voice as well as broadband on the same wet string! For many years I used a small stand-alone air-conditioning unit in my study (the box room in the house) and I even had a hole in the wall fo...

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