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HomePNA Achieves 320Mbps With Copper

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hot-copper dept.

illeism writes "Ars Techinca is reporting that the HPNA has made a significant stride in copper speed. From the article: 'The HomePNA Alliance, backers of a networking spec that works over coaxial or twisted pair wiring, has announced the release of the HPNA 3.1 specification. The big news comes in the form of a speed jump from 128Mbps to 320Mbps, which pushes it above competing networking standards HomePlug AV and MoCA (Multimedia over Coax) for the title of fastest networking tech outside of gigabit Ethernet and makes it a more attractive option for triple-play providers.'"

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  1. Re:Erm....? by hab136 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    The other two wires are for power. Notice how the phone works during a blackout?

    Do tell me how using the other two wires goes though. I think you'll have a lot of fried DSL hardware.

    So very, very wrong.

    In a standard telephone wiring situation (RJ11 jacks, or the old non-modular jacks), the green and red wires are used for the first phone line. The yellow and orange are unused (or a second line). An easy way to remember the pairs are Christmas (green + red) and Halloween (yellow + orange).

    There is no separate power line.

    http://www.tech-faq.com/telephone-wiring.shtml

    In RJ45, the center (first) pair is blue + blue/white.. Hanukkah maybe? :)