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150 Mbit/s DSL.
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.
gets 2 Mbits per second downstream and about half a megabit upstream. I run a server from that and have heavy traffic. Given that faster is better, how much are you willing to pay for the *possibility* that your connection will be faster? SBC is the only telco that offers dsl in my area and they are not too keen on progress. I could see them using this hardware and then still regulating traffic to 300kb/s.
We're only gonna die from our own arrogance, that's why we might as well take our time...
Why the RIAA will be asking for $30 tax/day/user for this new technology from congress.
Beep beep.
These speeds aren't that impressive when considering the normal density of telephone exchanges and typical copper cable runs. It seems that the DSL bandwidth over 2 copper wires has reached the point of not being able to significantly increase the capacity at anything approaching Moore's law. When will we have carriers that value the importance of running fibre to the home and developing high capacity switches to cater for this level of bandwidth? Here in Australia, there is serious consideration for the Natural Gas utilities to provide fibre-in-the-gas-pipe-infrastructure.
Why use this old technology when they can invest in newer technology like fiber to the house and/or Internet2 connectivity?
This is a test. This is a test of the emergency sig system. This has been only a test.
Who cares if it can do 150 Mbit?
Nobody is going to run that kind of pipe out to the CO.
-Nick
My name is Obi-Wan Kenobi. You killed my master. Prepare to die.
..but for the home user it's impractical until the internet catches up to it. I wonder what'll come along where 150mb becomes a must have?
Anybody read up on the Internet 2? If memory serves, they've been dishing out 100mbs or so. I can't remember what they were doing with that bandwidth, though.
I'm not asking from a cynical perspective. I'm really curious what happens when 150mbs can be served up. The first thing that pops into my mind is setting up a server at home (assuming 150 up as well as down. I can dream!) and remotely accessing it anywhere. Fun stuff. Wish I was more imaginitive tho.
"Derp de derp."
Well, it's great that it can pull down 150Mb/s ... but you've gotta have an empty OC3 to feed it. And if you've got an OC3, might as well kick out the extra cash to run in the extra 300 meters.
The 4km @ 4Mb/s is pretty nice, though.
It's all going to be swept away by Digital Spread Spectrum.
The Net will be in the air, encrypted, ubiquitous, undetectable, unstoppable and free.
It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.
New chip boots up computers like a light
Actually, I believe that the days of the baby bells dragging their feet (as the previous Slashdot post mentioned) on High Speed Internet Access are over. I believe that Cable currently accounts for 7 or 8 out of every 10 new broadband users. With the erosion of the residential phone line customer base due to cell phones, the "Bells" are looking for ways to keep customers from switching. (It has been shown that customers that have more than one service are less likely to switch.) Both Verizon and SBC have begun to aggressively price DSL to try and regain some market share.
- http://www.braveterry.com/
Let's stop the whining about lack of high-speed coverage! I have another idea.
Anybody up for pitching in together to build a company to force the last mile. We'll simply bypass the telco and cable companies, put in higher bandwidth than this, charge reasonable fees, and have on-demand video and VOIP as built in services. We'll start with dense neighborhoods and then acquire grants for poor neighborhoods and rural areas. We'll use a shared bandwidth scheme with a minimum speed gurantee. If only 1 user is active, he gets the whole pipe.
It's time to stop the whining about how bad the high bandwidth coverage is and just start making money changing it!
There are enough of us out there (and I'm talking just /.ers) who can cover the technical, financial, and regulatory bases and make this thing happen. Why wait for the bloated telcos and cable companies to build (and own) the new infrastructure. Let's build it ourselves.
New Motto: No more dark fiber! No more dialups!
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He's serious and that's CHEAP in Canada.
For example, Bell ExpressVu DirecPC service, one-way satellite connection, you get 4GB/month and anything over that is $100/GB!! Yes, ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS per GB!
I'm in a rural area, I have no landline broadband options available (f'in cable is 1 mile away from my house though!), so my only choice right now is satellite. Needless to say, I refuse to use Bell for that rate so I've signed up with c-band.net.
That being said, cband.net have a rather scary TOS as well, you get 400kb/s down (one way connection), but, if you download between 500MB-1000MB they can cut your speed next month to 300kb/s (small bits btw), 1000-1500MB 200kb/s next month, etc.
Meaning, they expect you to only download about 17MB/day with their service, but here's the kicker, at full speed that takes 5 minutes.
Luckily, they only seem to enforce the TOS for the hogs right now, I downloaded over 1500MB last month and this month I'm still at full speed, mind you I hardly hook it up right now as if you are just surfing the net then 56K works just as fast or faster if the cband.net proxy servers are too busy.
Chances are I'll dump the satellite connection anyway, with the restrictions it's almost useless for much of anything, I'd be better off buying off cheapbytes or waiting the 2 days it takes my 56K to grab a Linux ISO.
Just so you know, StarBand was disowned by DishNetwork a while ago. The current customers are getting access, but they're not accepting anyone anymore. It's a dying technology. The sucessor to it is in the works though... Expect it to be HUGE (big bandwidth anywhere in the US since it's sattelite delivered, 2 way, so you'll get a huge upload speed too). I won't say much more since I don't want to jeopardize my job... but look for it in 2-3 years
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