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Comment by gruez

4 years ago

Is it really surprising that ADSL2, which was apparently designed to work "up to 5000 meters" of copper, can work over 2 meters of wet string? Wet salty string being 1/2500th as conductive as copper wire doesn't seem too far fetched.

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rubatuga  4 years ago

You need to consider reflections attenuation and imepdance

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