Remember tying two tin cans together with string to communicate? Well according to this article at BBC News…
Engineers at a small British internet service provider have successfully made a broadband connection work over 2m (6ft 7in) of wet string.
The connection reached speeds of 3.5 Mbps (megabits per second), according to the Andrews and Arnold engineer who conducted the experiment.
The point of the experiment appears to have been purely to see if it was achievable.
Cool! See the article for details.
For the meantime, I think I’ll stick with copper and fiber.
(For more on tin can phones, check out: Tin can telephone – Wikipedia)
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