This is obviously a kid having some fun messing with people. It's fun to see how many people try it though.
Brandon Haymore On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Nathan England <nat...@nmecs.com> wrote: > ** > > > What a load of crap! The cable is not even connected, with shielding > between them, how does the secondary cable transfer any data? > > > > With the old IDE ribbon cables they pulled a trick like this. They were 80 > pin cables but only 40 were used for data. The other 39 wires were called > "earth" wires, or grounding wires. > > > > I could see if you could put BOTH cables into an RJ45 connector on both > sides it might help with throughput a bit, but not like this. > > > > Also, your throughput is limited by your ISP. I have 15MB cable. Nothing I > do on my side is going to boost my speed because there is a switch > somewhere in the ether that knows my MAC address and limits it to 15MB. > > > > I could get TWO cable accounts and have linux manage them both, but the > ISP does not support "shotgunning" accounts to double the bandwidth either. > > > > On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:01:07 keith smith wrote: > > > > Any thoughts? > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG5cEik2ABY&feature=endscreen&NR=1 > > > > ------------------------ > Keith Smith > > > > -- > > Regards, > > > > Nathan England > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > NME Computer Services http://www.nmecs.com > > Nathan England (nat...@nmecs.com) > > Systems Administration / Web Application Development > > Information Security Consulting > > (480) 559.9681 > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Brandon Haymore
--------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
