{"id":35610,"date":"2017-12-13T22:12:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T22:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/broadband-internet-transmitted-over-a-piece-of-wet-string\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T22:12:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T22:12:32","slug":"broadband-internet-transmitted-over-a-piece-of-wet-string","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/broadband-internet-transmitted-over-a-piece-of-wet-string\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadband internet transmitted over a piece of wet string"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/author\/jasper-hamill\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metrouk2.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/12\/jasper-hamill.jpg?quality=80&amp;strip=all&amp;w=40&amp;h=40&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"jasper hamill\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metrouk2.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/12\/pri_63062962.jpg?w=748&amp;h=748&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Broadband internet transmitted over a piece of wet string\"\/><figcaption>This string is much more useful than it appears (Picture: Andrews and Arnold)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back in the days before emojis and Snapchat, children used to communicate at a distance using two yoghurt pots and a piece of string.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the kids may have been onto something because engineers have just shown that broadbrand internet can be transmitted over a piece of wet string.<\/p>\n<p>Experts from an internet provider called Andrews and Arnold f 3.5Mbps (megabits per second) using a two-metre-long piece of string that had been soaked in salt water.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018To be honest it was a bit of fun, which one of our techies decided to try out \u2013 we have equipment we could test in the office, and why not?\u201d director Adrian Kennard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-42338067\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told the BBC.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018There is no commercial potential that we are aware of.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metrouk2.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/12\/pri_63062816.jpg?w=620&amp;h=1102&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Broadband internet transmitted over a piece of wet string\"\/><figcaption>The string was soaked in salt water, which conducts electricty more effecively than pure water (Picture: Andrews and Arnold)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metrouk2.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/12\/pri_63062941.jpg?w=620&amp;h=620&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Broadband internet transmitted over a piece of wet string\"\/><figcaption>The string was plugged into a router to deliver the internet at very slow speeds (Picture: Andrews and Arnold)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sadly, we don\u2019t advise trying to connect yourself to the internet using string, because the speeds are very slow and the connection is incredibly easy to break.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Howett, principal analyst at research firm Assembly, added: \u2018While we often get tied up in knots over whether it should be fibre to the street cabinet or fibre all the way to the home, one thing\u2019s for certain and that\u2019s that this isn\u2019t going to make it into the mix of technologies companies like Openreach or Virgin Media will be using.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2017\/12\/13\/broadband-internet-transmitted-piece-wet-string-7156841\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>Original Article<!--more--><\/p>\n<p> [contf] [contfnew]         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/metrouk\/img\/branding\/metro-logo-black.svg\"\/> <\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">METRO<\/a><\/h5>\n<p> [contfnewc] [contfnewc] <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http:\/\/newswirenow.co.uk\/2017\/12\/13\/broadband-internet-transmitted-over-a-piece-of-wet-string\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband internet transmitted over a piece of wet string<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"http:\/\/newswirenow.co.uk\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">News Wire Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This string is much more useful than it appears (Picture: An..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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