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150 Mbit/s DSL.

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'd-settle-for-150Kbit/s dept.

surstrmming writes "German company Infineon have released their new QAM VDSL Plus chips, providing 150 Mbit/s data rates over ordinary copper wire." Note that that kinda throughput is at the 1000 feet mark... but the chip can still serve up 4mbps even at 13,000 feet.

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  1. simpsons reference... by s0rbix · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe HE can provide faster nudity...

  2. Space by winston_pr · · Score: 2, Funny

    150Mbit ?! They'd better bundle the modems with 200Gb harddrives.

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    "6EQUJ5"
  3. New, Fast DSL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great, now with my fast new DSL, I can have an extra long annoying signature..

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    From anonymous: "

    All I Want To Do
    Is Be Close To You,

    All I Want To Say
    Is Thank You For The Way,

    You Love Me,
    You Love Me,

    All I Want To Do
    Is Be Close To You,

    All I Want To Say
    Is Thank You For The Way,

    You Love Me,
    You Love Me,

    You Are Faithful,
    To All That You Have Promised And,

    Loving in all your ways,

    And still with all of my failings,
    You Love Me, You Love Me, You Love Me.

  4. Profit! by 56ksucks · · Score: 4, Funny

    Step 1: Move within 2000 feet of DSL provider

    Step 2: ???

    Step 3: Profit!

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    ---- "Excuse me. Where's the children's gun section?"

  5. Great News for ISPs by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny
    This is great news for ISPs! After the user has exhausted his 1 GB monthly bandwidth allocation, he can now choose to purchase more extra bandwidth to enhance revenue.

    If extra bandwidth is only 10 cents per megabyte, a single user on a 150mbit line could choose to purchase up to $4,860,000.00 per month (plus $324,432.46 federal excise tax and $127,368.32 universal service fee) of additional data services! If only a few percent of all users decide to puchase this much data, there would be a huge potential for revenue growth.

  6. 4mbps! oh really? by displague · · Score: 5, Funny

    4 millibits per second!!!

    Outstanding!

    At that rate, this 122 Byte comment would take 67 hours 45 minutes to transfer!

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    Marques Johansson
  7. Re:Where is my last generation Broadband? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And Asscroft doesn't! It's win-win!

  8. Re:Fiber-Fed Neighborhood by Boing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yikes. I'd better stop reading this discussion; That was ten percent less than a lethal dose of acronyms.

  9. Re:Typeical Cable Runs + Fibre by MadCow42 · · Score: 3, Funny

    >>Natural Gas utilities to provide fibre-in-the-gas-pipe-infrastructure.

    Cool... until you turn the shutoff valve! q:]

    "No! Don't turn off the gas!"

    "But sir, your house is on fire?"

    "You'll kill my broadband!"

    "............(muttering) f$%#ing geeks...."

    MadCow.

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  10. feh by jpellino · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, Herr Speedy-Hosen, for 1000 feet, I could just hire Michael Johnson to run across campus in - erm - 30 seconds with - let's see - 700 MB per cd... 150 mbit per sec... um..... (click click click) 1,400 cds on his back and get the same throughput! SO TH... What? Ah. OK - maybe this IS a breakthrough after all. Never mind.

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    "Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
  11. Bandwidth-wise, nothing beats... by jetmarc · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..a Federal Express aircraft full of DVD's. Although ping latency is horrible :(