where to buy 24 awg stranded wire?

if its not too awful you can send 10baseT half duplex over it with an acceptable packet loss

Man, that sounds almost as bad as the time (back in high school) a friend and I managed to send CATV signals down a piece of staple-gun-mounted CAT3 (phone line) spliced with some speaker cable (and further spliced with $DEITY-knows-what-else) in his mom's trailer, just so he could have cable TV in his bedroom.

It worked, tho. Probably didn't make the FCC too happy.

;D