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Copper Wire As Fast As Fiber?
Krishna Dagli writes to tell us that a new consortium of hardware vendors and phone companies have banded together in order to try for fiber optic speeds over copper wiring. From the article: "To avoid interference, current DSL implementations use static spectrum management that is built for a 'worst-case' scenario. Most actual phone lines would allow for far better performance, and DSM technology will allow each DSL connection to be regulated in real time by the hardware based on measured crosstalk and on current data needs of each customer. The end result could be DSL connections that top out at 100Mbps or more."
It's the width of the tubes that matter, since the current is all the same speed inside them. ;)
'Sensible' is a curse word.
It could have been about eating a bowl of copper wires over milk instead of bran flakes.
I did my own test to see if copper wire was a fast as fiber.
Day One
Ate a bowl of fiber. Bowel movement within two hours. Pretty fast.
Day Two
Ate a bowl of copper wire. Severe internal bleeding.
Ultimately, results were inconclusive as the emergency surgery on day two negated any possible effects of the copper wire.
Unknown host pong.
>> In other words, they might be able to get you hooked up at 100Mb/s, but you'd only be able to talk to your neighbors and other people on the local subnet at that speed.
As long as a neighbour has seeded the torrent you're after, it'll be freakin awesome!
...in a Jimmy Cagney voice: "Nyah! You'll never catch me, copper!"