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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.

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  1. If this is not the first post... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I will strap toilet paper tubes to my chest and run up to the gates of the White House.

    As always, links to pictures will be posted.

    Pr0pz to the trolls at #Forum last night! _TB

    1. Re:If this is not the first post... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I will strap toilet paper tubes to my chest and run up to the gates of the White House.


      good luck.

    2. Re:If this is not the first post... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      as always, accent the pudding by running Red-Rope Liquorice between the tubes at the top, and regular black-rope Liquorice from the bottom.

  2. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Suck it, kids!

  3. sounds good... by slimey_limey · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but I just got cable.

  4. Impressive by sahonen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

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

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  5. Re:Fr!st psot!!1!!1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    You wasted your mod points! You wasted your mod points!

    Thus, I win.

  6. i was.. by malocchio · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i was gonna post a comment, but I have to change my underwear first.

  7. Re:Fr!st psot!!1!!1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ROFLMAO!!!!! Keep on wastin' them mod points!

  8. wow by DumbWhiteGuy777 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's a lot of pr0n.

  9. My chair at work smells like ass... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...do you think anyone else notices it?

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

    It's called karma whoring

  11. Re:slashdotted! article text: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please stop wasting bandwith bitching about the k-whores, they're a natural part of the /. ecosystem. If you're really that much of a lameass, please adust your reading threashold to +1.

  12. DMT vs QAM VDSL debate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Note that there is an ongoing DSL industry struggle surrounding the standardization of VDSL. In one corner, a number of companies are pushing for DMT. In the other corner, other companies like Infineon, Metalink and Cisco are pushing for QAM. This VDSL plus stuff is part of the push for QAM.

    With a number of telcos getting ready to provide video services, VDSL is on the cusp of becoming more mainstream in North American and Europe. Of course, in Asia, and Korea in particular, they are somewhat ahead.

  13. Poop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    George of the Jungle (1997)

    Swahili Guide: Bad guy falls in poop: Classic element of physical comedy. Now comes the part where we throw our heads back and laugh. Ready?

    Source: http://us.imdb.com/

  14. 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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  15. 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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