Cable trick to double Internet speed

[Brandon]

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 <nathan at nmecs.com> wrote:

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> What a load of crap! The cable is not even connected, with shielding
> between them, how does the secondary cable transfer any data?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:01:07 keith smith wrote:
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> Any thoughts?
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG5cEik2ABY&feature=endscreen&NR=1
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> Keith Smith
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> Nathan England
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