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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. 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.

  3. 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