On: Ethernet over barbed wire

[himom]

It would be neat to have a mesh topology that uses the bandwidth and redundancy of multiple fence paths in order to prevent an outage from damage to any one particular fence. Solar-powered routers anyone?

Otherwise: Dabnabbit Maude, the cows gone loose again because we lost the interwebs. (I’m half-Texan so it’s not -ist.)

[Bartweiss → himom]

Bizarrely, that's close to a real problem! Ethernet over barbed wire may have been just for show, but phone service over it was a very real approach.

Perhaps not "the internet released the cows", but at least "the stampede cut the phone lines".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbed_wire_telephone_lines