It's official, ADSL works over wet string

[mister]

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). One of the key aspects of the technology is its ability to adapt to the length and characteristics of the line on which it is deployed.

We have seen faults on broadband circuits that manifest as the system adapting to much lower speeds, this is a key factor as a service can work, but unusually slowly, over very bad lines.

It has always been said that ADSL will work over a bit of wet string...

http://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet-string.html

 

[PeterBee]

No use in Cape Town - no wet string available. No wet anything....

 

[Gordon_R]

LOL!

Quite true statements concealed in that story. ADSL is an adaptive technology, and can cope with terrible signal quality. However, the fact that your router can synch, does not excuse Telkom from investigating line noise.

 

[Gordon_R]

No use in Cape Town - no wet string available. No wet anything....

Plenty of salt-water, and the string has to be conductive.

 

[beesboertjie]