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Australian Researcher Boosts ADSL Speeds

Posted by Zonk on from the pouring-go-faster-juice-down-the-tubes dept.

sea_stuart writes "Like your ADSL connection to go 100 times faster? Despite the grim state of Australian mathematics and science, there is still exciting original work being done Down Under. John Papandriopoulos, a Research Fellow with the ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks (CUBIN) has developed a method to reduce crosstalk interference in ADSL technologies to bring speeds up the theoretical maxima possible. With an Australian Federal election due in a few weeks, and both parties promising improved broadband speeds and access, this is a welcome development, hopefully enabling higher speeds without huge expenses."

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  1. dupe by mgblst · · Score: 4, Insightful

    With more bandwidth, we will need more content, so I guess we can expect a few more repeats.

  2. Politics by religious+freak · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With an Australian Federal election due in a few weeks, and both parties promising improved broadband speeds and access...

    Wow, I wish this was even close to being an issue in one of our campaigns here in the USA. Can you imagine having an issue like this on the national agenda here?
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    1. Re:Politics by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Its partly because a Universal Service Obligation is built into our telecommunications laws. Companies which supply loss making services to remote areas get a subsidy from companies which do not.

      A law like that in the United States wouldn't have made it past the Reagan administration. American law is written by telecom lobbyists and is designed to create and sustain fake scarcity of telecommunications services.

  3. Re:Australian? by lord_rob+the+only+on · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So what ? His grandparents may come from Greece. That does not mean mean he's Greek because his surname sounds greekish ...

  4. Re:Australian? by donscarletti · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Have you ever been to Australia? Greeks in South Eastern Australia are as common as any other ancestry, you find them everywhere from blue collar labour to business, politics, entertainment and broadband research. Even Australia's most nationalistic rednecks don't see them as anything but normal, white Aussies anymore. Personally, I hear a Greek name and immediately think: Melbourne, because how much useful research has ever been done in Greece? Archimedes lived in Sicily, Pythagorus and Zeno lived in Italy, Thales lived in Turkey and both Ptolomy and Euclid lived in Egypt.

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  5. Re:Australian? by cutee · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "normal, white Aussies"? I know we here are heading back to white australia, but not that far, yet. I'll push my children out of here long before then (and I'll remember to post a message here when I do). For now if you are an Indian doctor (not American Indian doctors, anything American is welcome by the present australian government) think again before you come here. The government may think because you look darker therefore you must be on the dark side. Perhaps science is only dim for Australian politicians who do not know that dark skin is for vitamin D, not for terrorism.

  6. Re:Australian? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You know what they do to (India) Indians in the Redneck US south?

    http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hKv6B6Q4mcaow3IjXvBbyExPTQvQD8SDDUF80

  7. Re:oh please by BlueParrot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Grim state? At least the majority of *our* population are literate for a start.
    Maybe it's because I'm Swedish and not an expert on English grammar, but doesn't your fine language use "is" when the subject is singular? I.e, "our population is literate"?