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Australian Researchers Push Near-Broadband IP Over VHF

Posted by timothy on from the verified-horse-feathers dept.

Curmudgeon Rick writes "A research group at the Australian National University is getting symmetrical 250K bps at 20km, using "empty" 7MHz-wide broadcast TV allocations in the 45MHz band. Story here, project homepage here. Aim is to put some bandwidth out beyond the reach of the wires, where users are few and far between."

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  1. Cool and all by mphase · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but doesn't this just mean one lucky bastard in the boonies will be getting good speeds or 50 unlucky bastards getting crap speed?

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    vampirical
    1. Re:Cool and all by tonyr60 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Building on our great pool of expertise developed from 802.11, I suspect that one bastard gets to communicate and 50 lucky bastards get to listen (or watch) in...

    2. Re:Cool and all by principio · · Score: 5, Funny

      and we may be looking at the birth of the largest collision domain in the known universe

  2. New slogan? by Silent+Bob+On+Couch · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if this will be marketed in the US for rural areas. I can hear the slogan now...

    "VHF... Australian for Broadband."