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200mbps DSL On Its Way?
An anonymous reader writes "I came upon a news story about Texas Instruments developing a new DSL technology which will allow ISP's to boost their bandwidth to 200mbps (Yes, mega bits per second). The UDSL service, as it is dubbed, is backwards compatible with current DSL technologies such as VDSL and ADSL. This should get many cable internet users, like myself, a second look at DSL." Update: 06/15 01:26 GMT by T : "mps" and "mbs" both de-mangled.
Then maybe I would have a First Post... I had to try
Yay! Another service my ISP can charge through the nose for! Pure profit, baby!
How appropriate. You fight like a cow.
...it's faster than the TI-99
Personally I love this idea. It will let my local DSL provider advertise "20x the speed of cable!". Then they can increase the number of subscribers per segment by 20x and I can continue to enjoy these 40k/s downloads while my ISP charges more than they ever have. I think this is a huge step forward, but if I pay a little extra can I also request a boot to the head???
'which will allow ISP's to boost their bandwidth to 200mbs'
awesome, now it will only take 5 seconds to get a bit.
think how fast sites could get slashdotted then.
When your phone lines start burning through the walls, don't say you weren't warned.
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So, I will expect 200mps DSL ...oh, let's see... on the fifth of never.
I guess it's cable for the foreseeable future.
> 200 metres per second
You can claim that your DSL modem literally runs faster than your neighbor's. After all, their DSL modem just sits on the shelf and blinks happily.
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Trying to get FP and on a Uni computer
200mbps (Yes, mega bits per second).
then
Update: 06/15 01:26 GMT by T: "mps" and "mbs" both de-mangled.
Well if you're going to take any effort to de-mangle, how about de-mangling into something that doesn't mean "milibits per second" if what you really mean is "megabits per second" (Mbps)?
-b
(argh)
myselfmusic
Sure, it's a great concept, but there's no practical application for home use.
And 386's are for servers, those new 33.6 modems are blazingly fast, and no one will ever need more than 640k of ram.
Just today, we had an article about streaming movies. Current cable and DSL speds are jut barely fast enough. Until you get a large email, and it chokes. With speeds like this, that becomes a lot more viable.
Imagine a HD TiVo, recording and watching 3 different shows/movies at the same time, pumped through your DSL line.
An article on 400gb hard drives and an article on 200Mbps DSL on the same day! Its a conspiracy I tell you!
Moo!
They don't have to shut anyone down, just follow a nice formula. Full speed up to X bandwidth used in a month. 10% speed for next X bandwidth used in a month. 10% of that speed for X more bandwidth used in a month... etc. etc.. Speed gets reset for next billing cycle. If they stagger billing cycles (not all on the same day), then their pipes will be free Roflmao, I had a flashback to my OS Design course when I read that. Visions of scheduling and page replacement algorithms flashing through my head.
It's scary when you realize that you're actually learning something in school.
you mean, that some aspects of computer and/or network technologies will be faster in the future? well, now I am just confused...
sic transit gloria mundi
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And that b=bits, B=bytes.
They got it right this time, but there's no historical indication that it's attributable to anything but luck.
Right now a 802.11b wireless connection from my laptop to my wireless router is faster than my DSL connection.
Right now a 802.11g wireless connection from my desktop to my WAP/router is faster than my 56k dial-up connection. Now this talk of 200Mbs... Can everyone stop teasing me?
It's GNU/Linux dammit!
_The_ cable company?? Which one? Not charter... Looking over my logs... It's been more than a month since I _haven't_ downloaded more than 3GB in a day. (I discovered anidb and have been completing my utena, vampire princess miyu, ghost in the shell SAC season 1 and 2 collections). I'm also a big Petra Short fan (you know, the Hungarian "actress" in the Private studios DVDs... you may remember her from superfuckers 10 and Private Gold: Private Gladiator) and I like lesbians. All of this requires mldonkey and that means bandwidth. I pay for gold+++ deluxe whatever-it-is-that's-costing-me-90-bux-a-month service.
See, I'm the guy that actually uses what he pays for and pays for what he uses. People like me are why the internet is what it is and not a bunch of grandmothers and nerds checking email and surfing gopher. You dorks think loading some three png+text page getting slashdotted is a big deal... I'm the next level, baby! And when you've moved on to bulk clicking supernva, I'll have a room full of chimps thrashing shareconnector. And when you figure that one out, I'll pay mexicans to hire mexicans to queue up my ed2k transfers. I'll need freaking sixty four bit counters so I don't overflow my mrtg graphs... _every_five_minutes_, man. You'll see! You are seeing! I am the dude that everyone sees and is like, wow man! He ran asssstroid man!! That dude R O C K S.
Geeks sleeping NEXT to the C/O - Fuck that, you'll have Dweebs renting out closets IN the C/O.