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Aussie Claims Copper Broadband now 200x Faster

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the alarms-going-off-in-brain dept.

SkiifGeek writes "Winner of Melbourne University's Chancellor's Prize for Excellence, Dr John Papandriopoulos could soon find himself the focus of a number of networking companies and government agencies interested in wringing more performance from existing network infrastructure. Dr John developed a set of algorithms (US and Aussie patents pending) that reduce the impact of cross talk on data streams sharing the same physical copper line, taking less than a year to achieve the breakthrough. It is claimed that the algorithms can produce up to 200x improvement over existing copper broadband performance (quoted as being between one and 25 mbit/sec), with up to 200 mbit/sec apparently being deliverable. If the mathematical theories are within even an order of magnitude of the actual gains achieved, Dr John's work is likely to have widespread implications for future bandwidth availability across the globe."

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  1. Finally! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

    My dreams of building a top-notch deathmatch LAN using old rolls of 1970s speaker wire from my basement could finally come true.

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    1. Re:Finally! by CastrTroy · · Score: 4, Funny

      Just imagine the network you could build with Monster cables.

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    2. Re:Finally! by kcbanner · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yea, if you go to those Monster cables or perhaps these ones, your games might become "danceable".

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    3. Re:Finally! by Gilmoure · · Score: 3, Funny

      Dude, lamp cord; it's really cheap!

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    4. Re:Finally! by micknz · · Score: 2, Funny

      Just imagine the network you could build with Monster cables. Haha. The guy at the store where I bought my LCD TV tried to tell me if I bought some fancy $200 (NZD) surge protector that it'd improve the picture 200%.

      Yeah Right.

  2. Metaphor please by CRCulver · · Score: 5, Funny

    So is this like coating the series of tubes with an improved surface so that the trucks get better traction?

    1. Re:Metaphor please by Von+Helmet · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, if you're using like, then it's actually a simile.

      That being said, I think the appropriate metaphor for your post would be "flogging a dead horse".

    2. Re:Metaphor please by lloydchristmas759 · · Score: 2, Funny

      You must be new here.

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    3. Re:Metaphor please by Belacgod · · Score: 3, Funny

      So the technology in TFA will allow us to flog dead horses 200 times as fast? Won't our arms get tired?

    4. Re:Metaphor please by Spokehedz · · Score: 2, Funny

      No... it's more like this:

      You have many tubes going one way, with the internet flowing through them. If one fills up (it's not a truck!) then it spills over into one of the other tubes, or sometimes if a similar amount of internet is flowing in two tubes that are next to eachother then they spill over randomly.

      Now, cross-tube-spill makes for slow internet--more so than an email from your coworker--and this guy here figured out how to send the internet through the tubes in such a way that there is no spill over, and the tubes never get full, and that allows him to send more internet through the tubes at a faster rate.

      There. Happy?

  3. Re:200x??? Hardly... by Andy_R · · Score: 1, Funny

    On the upside, this does mean that getting 'within an order of magnitude' of the claims shouldn't be too hard!

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  4. Re:200 mbit/sec by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It may be just you. I can't recall the last time I read someone referring to fractions of a data bit.

  5. Fast Forward to Slashdot 2009 by dada21 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Geek Post Subject: Comcast Throttles Bandwidth, Breaks Contract

    Geek Post Comments: I can't believe Comcast! They promised me an unlimited 200mbit connection and all I am getting is 60mbit! I want what I paid for, who cares how fast my connection was 3 years ago! I demand my 200mbit connection, and at $50 per month!11!

    Geek Post Moderation: +5, Insightful

  6. Re:200 mbit/sec by alexhs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, Aussies just discovered ADSL networking, now 200x as fast as their current POTS network :)

    I kid, please don't bite ;)

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  7. Re:Obligatory ... by WombatDeath · · Score: 4, Funny

    Rubbish!

    0 = one bit
    ( = half a bit

    1 = one bit
    ' = half a bit

    You need to use an appropriate font, obviously.

    I don't know what you people would do without me to solve these little problems for you.

  8. Re:Trans-Oceanic Latency by WombatDeath · · Score: 2, Funny

    That sounds expensive. We should probably just increase the speed of light instead.

  9. Re:John's actually a pretty cool dude by 0xC2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dr. John is way cool, but methinks you got the wrong home page. http://www.drjohn.org/

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  10. Re:I hate "UP TO"... by mfnickster · · Score: 2, Funny

    > I hate "UP TO"...the most meaningless phrase in American Marketing.

    So, it would be safe to say you've had it "up to here" with the phrase...?

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