The engineer connected the Internet on a wet rope.
Engineer of the British Internet provider, as an experiment, created a two-meter ADSL line based on salt-impregnated rope. The data transfer rate for this line was about three and a half megabits per second.
ADSL is a technology for transmitting data over a telephone line, often used for Internet access, the main feature of which is that the data bandwidth is distributed asymmetrically between incoming and outgoing data. Because of this, the transmission rate of the incoming stream in such a technology is much higher than the outgoing one. Copper cables are usually used as cables for such a connection, but the technology itself allows the use of other conductive materials.
Employee of the British Internet service provider Andrews and Arnold decided to test this in practice and created a compact ADSL line from the usual rope. In order for it to carry signals, it was soaked in salty water. The engineer fixed two two-meter pieces of rope with the help of "crocodile" clips to the contacts of the telephone cable and connected the cable to the computer.
The other end of the cable the author of the project connected to the tester and measured the characteristics of the communication line. It turned out that it has a throughput of about three and a half megabits per second for incoming traffic and 67 kilobits per second for outbound traffic. Also the representative of the provider jokingly notes that as a bonus it is possible to connect empty metal jars to the ends of the line and the voice communication function on the same line.