Slashdot Mirror
Motorola Field Tests Wireless Broadband At 300Mbps
cft_128 writes "Motorola Labs just finished field testing its new ODFM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) wireless broadband technology that prove it can attain 300Mbps. This is only a test, but it is an order of magnitude faster than the fiber to the premises that Verizon is now starting to offer. They do mention that the final network would only see 20Mbps sustained and 100Mbps peak."
Damn that is extremely fast but here in rural south east Ohio I would settle for just 1Mbps. I'm currently stuck at 28.8k and thats on a good day with my USR V.Everything Courier modem sigh...
That's the most retarded thing I've seen in a long time. Fiber can take more than 10 Gb/sec.. The paid offering for fiber to the prem is just slow.. they don't want to cannibalize their paid commercial optical products. You can't compare a current product offering to a something that's being tested. The marketing people haven't been involved yet.
Verizon is offering service in some parts of CA and FL. This is a far cray from nation vide service. They are just testing the market, and it might take years for this service to get to the rest of us.
Maybe ./ needs a Motorola logo...
Surprised no one mentioned the new V3 nor the A780.
Actually, the digital radio in Europe and HDTV broadcasts also use OFDM, so I guess we can find out by seeing when WiLAN sues them...
That said, OFDM is amazingly elegant and efficient (in use of BW). It just requires the receiver to work harder to demodulate the data. So with a 300MB/s peak rate, you will need a much more powerful processor than 802.11g applications. So don't go looking for this in a portable solution for a long time...
No, I don't trust in god. He'll have to pay up front, like everybody else.
"I fear the day of the $100 a month cell phone bill is near." You're a little late on this one. know several people who've gone over that on more than one occasion (myself excluded).
Get me a meat pie floater!
You would think that that's the way it works, but it's nothing like that. My company has TONS of spare capacity on their network, and we don't lower prices.. we occasionally run promos, but that's it. We price things so we don't shoot ourselves in the foot. Why buy a 45 Mbit DS3 for $2500/month when you can buy a GigaBit connection for $2800?
When are we going to see decent upstream at the home? 128kbps doesn't cut it. I rarely see any offering at all over 256kbps upstream. OOL offers 1024 but as soon as you begin actually USING it they cap you back to 150 to keep the network from congesting to death.
But Joe McSixpack doesn't care about that, he just wants to grab porn faster and maybe let his kids get on aol and watch some crappy realvideo trash without whining. The ISPs are so paranoid about people running servers on their networks and losing their ability to charge 5000% markup for the same connection for "business" users even though they still block ports like 80 and 25. Woe betide the industry if people realised that 1.5mbps T-1 they've been paying hundreds or thousands a month for since the early 90s is now SLOW.
It's gotten to the point where I've pretty much given up hope of ever seeing a real broadband connection in my lifetime. By the time I can afford something with decent upstream, the idiots in washington will have ISPs so paranoid that everyone will be mandatorily placed behind a NAT and their servers will continually portscan you looking for servers and p2p apps.
Introducing the new Occam Fusion! Now with sqrt(-1) fewer blades!
Of course it's really fast when you have the whole band to yourself. You could get 10Mb/s over analog cell phones if you could tie up all 860 channels. Big deal.