Somehow I'm CC'd privately in this discussion, of impedance of a DSL 6MB/s line made of wet salty starch. But I'm a BSEE engineer, so there is a theoretical answer. There's a practical answer, that's likely harder to describe. Fifty years ago, I solved a similar problem, in showing how 9600 baud communications could be done on 250 feet of twisted pair telephone cable. PhD's said it would not work. I did not an analysis. I hooked up the wire spool between two terminals and started typing. I don't think a wet-pasta analysis is worth bothering with. It's simply a happenstance that the DSL traffic happened to *succeed*. "The amazing thing about a dancing bear, is not how well it dances, but that it dances at all." So enjoy the result and don't fuss about the solution. regards Herb no-bot Johnson On 10/13/2024 12:34 PM, wrote:
It depends on what it’s saturated with, what kind of solution? Copper sulfate, salt, any other kind of conductive solution.
On Oct 13, 2024, at 9:54 AM, vcf-midatlantic
What exactly is the ohms-per-foot of wet pasta?!? :-)
On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 8:45 AM
The winning entry for the DSL competition involved somebody sending 6Mbps of traffic over a pair of wet spaghetti (yes, literally they used two pieces of wet pasta). -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA https://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net preserve, recover, restore 1970's computing email: hjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT com or try later herbjohnson AT comcast DOT net