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by xhrpost 1463 days ago
There's also Ethernet over barbed wire: http://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/edn/SoGoodBarbedWire.htm
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Paraphrasing the old joke about getting a dry pair, must be an SBC customer.
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!
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