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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. Impressive by sahonen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    But unfortunately, useless for me, as my home network is only 10 mbps.

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  2. Re:slashdotted! article text: by BlueJay465 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's called karma whoring

  3. Re:Profit! by deadsaijinx* · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    high bandwidth pr0n? hmmm, i'm not much of a techie, so i'm going to have to figure this out logically...

    high, not as in wasted, more as in a lot right? okay, bandwidth .... hmmmmm, okay, so band, as in waste band, so, width of the waste, a lot of waste width... ok. Pron could be a misspelling of prawns ... I could go for some fat prawns, yum. but they don't wear pants, so they wouldnt have a waste band. therefore, pron must me a misspelling of porn, which nerds like. porn with fat women in it.

    so, you say he wants to make money selling porn of fat girls? well, that's not my taste, but if there is money to be made, go for it. Though i don't think you have to be that close to the provider to get fat chick porn.

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  4. Re:Where is my last generation Broadband? by michrech · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Except for Drecway's FAP. Download what they feel is too much and you get knocked down to modem speeds for however long they feel (The newsgroups lare littered with people who are slowed down for anywhere from an hour to several hours).

    Starband? HA! They are *just* getting over the MAJOR CRC failures in the download stream (meaning, that shiney new linux .iso (or any other file) you downloaded will have CRC errors all over it). Not to mention the fact that they are still in in Chapter7 or 11.. I forget which.. Starband was, and will always be, a joke.

    Not to mention that with either of those options you have HUGE startup costs. Yea, they finally broke it down so that you can pay the install fee over the period of a year, but it is still HUGE. The other day Starband wrote me to tell me they'd buy my equipment back for $95. THE STUFF WAS USED FOR THREE MONTHS! It sat in it's boxes the rest of the time. $399 for the equpment and they are going to give me $95? Hell no.. Seeing that I wasn't going to get much for it, I sold it to a local dealer up here that was more than happy to pay $150 for it. I probably could have gotten slightly more if I had advertised it in the paper or put it on ebay or something..

    Oh.. no I'm rambling... Bah...

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