Post AWKfzBNXfU2kavgd0a by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
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 (DIR) Post #AWKThDkotmIHIdF9SS by niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be
       2023-06-03T23:16:57.671Z
       
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       ADSL works over wet string? Now, what about "ADSL over a UNPLUGGED phone line"? During a building-wide copper to fiber upgrade, the phone company stupidly unplugged my phone line from the distribution box. the phone was completely dead, no voltage. But my ADSL modem could complete the handshake. Speed degraded to ~128 Kbps, but I could still read basic webpages or chat on IRC... Apparently the parasitic capacitance on the line was enough for the AC signal to jump across the gap. My best guess was that only the ground wire was lost, and the parasitic capacitance of the modem's isolation transformer could complete the circuit via the mains powerline.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWKe6qaaeBdsWdJhQm by skymtf@tech.lgbt
       2023-06-04T01:13:01Z
       
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       @niconiconi I love the fact irc worked lol
       
 (DIR) Post #AWKfH3nUUj7IL6mibQ by lilstevie@infosec.exchange
       2023-06-04T01:19:32Z
       
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       @niconiconi I’m aware of a case where there was a 2cm gap on just 1 wire of the pair and it wasn’t detected for years because they never used the phone and back in those days adsl1 was capped at 1.5mbps here. It was only discovered when they upgraded to adsl2 and didn’t see an improvement in sync speed
       
 (DIR) Post #AWKfzBNXfU2kavgd0a by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
       2023-06-04T01:34:36.077041Z
       
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       @niconiconi Cable TV also works with the coax unplugged as long as you line up the coax well enough with the cables in the wall, with only a few artifacts sometimes. The shielding doesn't seem to do much. That reminds me, I should host a pissnet server connected via ADSL over a salty piss soaked string.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWKiJp3m2mrLMbPTGa by dalias@hachyderm.io
       2023-06-04T01:59:05Z
       
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       @niconiconi This makes me 🤬 how bad my line must be to actually drop...
       
 (DIR) Post #AWKiOQFJjER1qw0DKK by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2023-06-04T02:01:11.173602Z
       
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       @skymtf @niconiconi IRC always works
       
 (DIR) Post #AWLYvSAWnPRQzMplbc by davidr@hachyderm.io
       2023-06-03T23:36:05Z
       
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       @niconiconi "The internet treats air gaps as damage and routes around it."
       
 (DIR) Post #AWPteE5wkDHo5P9pMu by zhenech@chaos.social
       2023-06-06T13:58:22Z
       
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       @lanodan @niconiconi @skymtf IRC by definition can't be broken, because when something is broken we complain on IRC and it's magically fixed afterwards. If IRC would be broken, where would we complain about that?!
       
 (DIR) Post #AWPtijzw4UqiBqUysC by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2023-06-06T13:58:54.706127Z
       
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       @zhenech @niconiconi @skymtf Citizen Band or some ham radio?