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Alcatel-Lucent Boosts Broadband Over Copper To 300Mbps

alphadogg writes "Alcatel-Lucent has come up with a way to move data at 300Mbps over copper lines. So far the results have only been reproduced in a lab environment — real products and services won't be available for at least a year. From the article: 'Researchers at the company's Bell Labs demonstrated the 300Mbps technology over a distance of 400 meters using VDSL2 (Very high bitrate Digital Subscriber Line), according to Stefaan Vanhastel, director of product marketing at Alcatel-Lucent Wireline Networks. The test showed that it can also do 100Mbps over a distance of 1,000 meters, he said. Currently, copper is the most common broadband medium. About 65 percent of subscribers have a broadband connection that's based on DSL, compared to 20 percent for cable and 12 percent for fiber, according to market research company Point Topic. Today, the average advertised DSL speeds for residential users vary between 9.2 Mbps and 1.9Mbps in various parts of the world, Point Topic said.'"

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  1. VDSL2 by sopssa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It looks like they doubled the speed at 1km.

    VDSL2 deteriorates quickly from a theoretical maximum of 250 Mbit/s at 'source' to 100 Mbit/s at 0.5 km (1640 ft) and 50 Mbit/s at 1 km (3280 ft), but degrades at a much slower rate from there, and still outperforms VDSL. Starting from 1.6 km (1 mile) its performance is equal to ADSL2+.

    I have tried to get a VDSL2 for a few times during the past 5 years, but the prices are high and availability really bad. Even 100 Mbit/s fiber is a lot more common. ISP's also always responded that I live too far away from the center, even while it really was only about 1-1.5km (but that would had got me "just" 50 Mbit/s anyway, now with this 100 Mbit/s)

    The nice thing about VDSL2 is that unlike ADSL, it's symmetric. The 300Mbps over a distance of 400 meters is damn good too, but theres no centers in every corner.

    1. Re:VDSL2 by afidel · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Yes there are, AT&T U-Verse is typically done over distances between 400m-1km (the max distance for availability is 2500ft or 762m)

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    2. Re:VDSL2 by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Unless we implement net neutrality rules, all we'll end up with is a really fast connection to Disney/Warner anyway.

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    3. Re:VDSL2 by TubeSteak · · Score: 3, Funny

      ISP's also always responded that I live too far away from the center, even while it really was only about 1-1.5km (but that would had got me "just" 50 Mbit/s anyway, now with this 100 Mbit/s)

      I've always gotten the same runaround when trying to get DSL service.
      The short answer is that "1-1.5km" (as the bird flies) is not at all representative of how far the copper is running above/under ground to reach your home.

      If you ever lookup* the coverage map for DSL in your area you'll get an idea of how the cables run from the CLEC.

      *good luck, it's probably stashed in some county office's locked filing cabinet behind a sign that says "beware of the leopard".

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    4. Re:VDSL2 by Kirijini · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Net Neutrality? You mean, Open Access.

      Network neutrality means ISPs being neutral about the content flowing through their pipes. Open access means owners of the pipes allowing others to provide internet service on that infrastructure for a fee.

      But man, what an idea... imagine a world where the pipe owners competed for ISPs as customers, and ISPs competed for subscribers...

    5. Re:VDSL2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      VDSL2 is not symmetric, nor does it give anywhere near 50mbit at 1km. At 1km (~3000ft) and in the real world, you will get around 30-35mbit down, 3-4mbit up, and this is with VDSL2 8B (~20.5db launch power), not the lower power VDSL 1.5 crap AT&T deployed.

      VDSL2 has many band plans, some of which (ie: VDSL2 12A & 30A) can support symmetric bandwidth if the loop is short enough. Higher frequencies attenuate faster than lower frequencies, since the 2nd upstream band starts at 3.75mhz, very few VDSL2's loop can support symmetric speeds, even if the loop is short.

    6. Re:VDSL2 by w00tsauce · · Score: 0

      The usa is a big fuckin country, which a lot of people don't realize. The only way I forsee getting high speed broadband to these rural communities is a big government push just like when electricity came out. Any DSL technology simply cannot deliver speeds past 5mbps to a large chunk of the country due to the raw distances these twisted pair lines travel. Eventually it will come to a point where someone is going to have to dump $100 billion in getting rural america wired with fiber optic.

    7. Re:VDSL2 by umghhh · · Score: 2, Interesting
      I am an ignorant in these matters I admit but to me it seems there are situations in which either there is no competition (high barriers to entry) or ones where competitors exist but they do not have to compete because change between them is impossible, cumbersome or made so expensive that such change is not feasible. Some of those situations are called natural monopolies. Of course free market freaks (FMF) would not accept even that such term describes existing situation but closer look at the reality proves that they do exist, do well and make people suffer high prices if not worse. Even bigger anathema to FMF is the way to help customers in such situations which include market regulation and in some case 'socialism' of (usually local) government providing the service itself. It works for water companies where there is not a single proof that privatization without regulation actually works and provides better service. In my view it may be the same for ISPs. In Germany former monopolist is obliged to provide last mile to the competitors for a limited price. This made the market really competitive and surprisingly some people (quite high in numbers actually) chose to go back after tasting what the competition has in store. Of course DT (Deutsche Telekom) would not lower the prices or work on quality and customer service if it was not forced to. Hence the regulation was needed and achieved its goal. I laugh every time when I think about my (Internet) experience in UK and read about how fancy the networks are in US.

      Could this be that there is a lesson here?

    8. Re:VDSL2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The 300Mbps over a distance of 400 meters is damn good too, but theres no centers in every corner.

      Then you replied that:

      Yes there are, AT&T U-Verse is typically done over distances between 400m-1km (the max distance for availability is 2500ft or 762m)

      So I'll just point out (again) that unless you have a center within 400 meters you're not getting any 300megabit connection over any DSL line. Between the 400 and 1km distance you aren't going to get anything advertised over 50, and more than likely in most parts of the country they won't try to run it more than 25megabit. Remember that the 300megabit under 400m is in lab conditions, not real-world conditions, and is the maximum. Once you start dealing with real plant, you're usually lucky to sustain more than half the maximum rate.

    9. Re:VDSL2 by JasterBobaMereel · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I suspect that even in the UK (which has a much higher population density than the US) the majority of people live more than 1km from an exchange ...and this assumes that the copper is relatively new and has clean connections ....

      In the US I suspect this is completely pointless for most people .... the only thing is that it might mean that they can get broadband at all ...

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    10. Re:VDSL2 by Lord+Byron+II · · Score: 1

      lol, can they beat what ATT is selling me?

      1.5Mbit/s at 15k feet =(

    11. Re:VDSL2 by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 1

      What that argument never explains, though, is why basically none of the US has decent home internet access.

      Obviously, somebody in the sticks depending on satellite, or using a wildly-uneconomic-but-universal-access-fee-subsidized copper POTS line is going to have lousy internet access. Barring a government(probably federal) initiative on a grand scale, or the invention of a magic WISP that doesn't have lousy ping, that isn't going to change.

      However, by population much of the US lives in areas of suburban density or greater. Why do they pay more for worse access than do citizens of other equivalently dense places?

    12. Re:VDSL2 by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      That's interesting, umghhh. I didn't know about the last mile in Germany.

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    13. Re:VDSL2 by mjwalshe · · Score: 1

      given the normal state of most telcos drawing offices good luck with that :-)

    14. Re:VDSL2 by Shatrat · · Score: 1

      Barring a government(probably federal) initiative

      This is already happening.
      I know of at least one company that is building out fiber networks in semi-rural towns of a few thousand using federal loans under rural development programs. Those rural towns have better service than I do, now.
      http://www.usda.gov/rus/telecom/broadband.htm is the program they are working with, I believe.

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    15. Re:VDSL2 by kent_eh · · Score: 3, Informative

      I suspect that even in the UK (which has a much higher population density than the US) the majority of people live more than 1km from an exchange ...and this assumes that the copper is relatively new and has clean connections ....

      It's not distance from the CO building that matters, but from the DSLAM, which are easy to deploy in any densely populated area, and relatively cost effective.
      The ~1.5 Km range is from one of these

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    16. Re:VDSL2 by swillden · · Score: 1

      ISP's also always responded that I live too far away from the center, even while it really was only about 1-1.5km (but that would had got me "just" 50 Mbit/s anyway, now with this 100 Mbit/s)

      I've always gotten the same runaround when trying to get DSL service. The short answer is that "1-1.5km" (as the bird flies) is not at all representative of how far the copper is running above/under ground to reach your home.

      If you ever lookup* the coverage map for DSL in your area you'll get an idea of how the cables run from the CLEC.

      But even that map (if you can get it) won't tell you very much. The way they measure the distance is by firing a signal down it and somehow measuring the timing of reflections (hopefully someone will chime in with a more detailed and accurate explanation of the process). That measures true wire distance, including any extra twists and turns, and any coiled-up wire lying around.

      A few years ago, my DSL service was terrible. I kept complaining until they finally sent someone out to look at it. Turns out, there was several hundred meters of cable on a spool in the CLEC, and my signal was going through all of it. The technician clipped out all the extra cable and my DSL service improved dramatically.

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    17. Re:VDSL2 by raynet · · Score: 1

      The biggest advantage, atleast for me, for VDSL2 over ADSL2+ is the upstream bandwidth. I can easily live with 25Mbps connection, maybe even with 10Mbps, if I get atleast 5Mbps up. Currently I have both connection types in use at my home and the VDSL2 connects at 54M/46M and ADSL2+ at 22M/1.9M. HTTP traffic is load balanced over both connections, gaming traffic goes over the ADSL2+ and everything else uses the VDSL2. Finally I can upload files to my servers in just minutes, not hours.

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  2. Great news but... by ls671 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is great news but I would like to note that:

    1) Japan was offering DSL speeds of 60 Mbps back in 2007:

    http://www.yugatech.com/blog/telecoms/japans-leads-in-internet-speeds/

    And according to TFA:

    2) The speed drops to 100Mbps at a 1 km distance.

    3) TFA also states "over two copper lines". It sounds like 4 wires are required (1 line=2 wire). If this is indeed the case, might as well bring the fiber into the house instead of a second pair of copper wires ;-))

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    1. Re:Great news but... by BobPaul · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Most homes have been wired for 2 lines for decades. The wall plates might only support 1 line, but the house wiring generally supports 2. And the cables running to the home frequently support 4 or more lines, even if only 1 is hooked up.

      So, I don't really see 3 as being an issue. They certainly won't be tearing up anyones yards to implement this.

    2. Re:Great news but... by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 1

      If there's copper in the local lines already, bringing a second pair in is a lot cheaper than stringing all new fibre on the whole local area. It's just another pair from the pole to the house.

    3. Re:Great news but... by JSBiff · · Score: 1

      "3) TFA also states "over two copper lines". It sounds like 4 wires are required (1 line=2 wire). If this is indeed the case, might as well bring the fiber into the house instead of a second pair of copper wires ;-))"

      I thought 'standard' telephone line had two twisted pairs (four wires) in the line? I don't think anyone is suggesting running a second line into premises that only have one line at the moment?

      This sounds like it would be used to allow the phone company to maybe run fiber optic to your block, and then have a VDSLAM which connects the fiber to all the existing copper lines which run into customer premises already. I think AT&T has a service called U-Verse which is based around this model (although it doesn't use a DSL version which is as fast as that proposed in this article).

      But, the idea is, I think, it's extremely expensive to run fiber into every home/apartment/business, but pretty cheap to run fiber to a local access point, then use existing copper into the premises.

    4. Re:Great news but... by beav007 · · Score: 1

      Standard PSTN is 2 wires per line, not 4.

      In Australia, the standard lead-in (pit to house) is 3 pairs, but with only 1 pair live.

    5. Re:Great news but... by ooloogi · · Score: 1

      If everyone wants it, they'll still need to roll out twice the amount of copper thats in the street now, otherwise they'll run out of lines to connect that 2 pairs from the house into.

    6. Re:Great news but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      I still cant get over 1.2 Mbps at my house. Palo Alto, California. Silicon Valley, USA.

      "That's the best we can do with the old wiring in your neighborhood." Yeah, Thanks.

    7. Re:Great news but... by Demonantis · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The issue is how the phone companies operate. You can only make what the consumer is willing to spend. 9 times out of 10 they have a monopoly in the area so why worry. No one can snatch you away from their service. They have no one to compete with and drive them to provide the best service possible. You probably won't see any change with consumer internet connections.

    8. Re:Great news but... by sortius_nod · · Score: 1

      You are indeed correct about POTS (PSTN) using 2 wires.

      However, standard practice here in Australia, as required by telecommunication's law is actually 2 pairs. Red & Black and Green & Black I think. Never was a techie, just did line programming & cable records.

      The problem I can see with 4 wire services is when it comes to apartment blocks/units/flats or any type of "gated" community. That's when things become there responsibility of the builder/body corporate. The telcos only have requirements to get to the MDF (Main Distribution Frame) of the complex, the body corporate then decides if each apartment needs 2 pairs to the socket.

      I remember before ADSL2/2+ became available there was talk of a 4 pair 80mbps version, but by the look of it this may have been canned due to the amount of copper required for a single service. Fiber would probably have been more economically viable.

    9. Re:Great news but... by biryokumaru · · Score: 1

      Most homes have been wired for 2 lines for decades.

      I was hooking up some phones at my father's new house (god, almost a decade ago now...) and it had 4 lines in the walls (8 individual wires). Being 15 or 16 at the time, I was a terrible electrician and had no idea which cables to go with. So I did the most sensible thing and had my brother lick them.

      Lucky for him, you're right. Only 1 pair was hooked up to power. A few aluminum foil and duct-tape splices and we had dial-up!

      My point being that this was nearly ten years ago. People still get their internet over the phone lines? For serious?

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    10. Re:Great news but... by Eravnrekaree · · Score: 2, Insightful

      many trunk lines already probably have an extra set, since they are designed for many lines per house. they could just throw extra lines into the digital stream. As well, it would cut costs to implement, since a loop extender can be added at 1 km, so it reduces the amount of new cable that must be laid. Its a far better way to get broadband to rural areas than the crazy and dumb idea of BPL.

    11. Re:Great news but... by Eravnrekaree · · Score: 1

      The loop extender can extend service areas beyond 1 km from the CO, BTW.

    12. Re:Great news but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wow... why didn't you just pay someone the $100 (or whatever) to do it properly.

      In Australia any phone equipment that is installed by the network owner is owned by the network owner, it is a federal offence to tamper with it beyond a licensed installer installing things beyond this network border point. Most homes have a point that is installed by Telstra and past that an Austel certified installer is allowed to install things, apartment blocks have an MDF that serves as the network border point.

    13. Re:Great news but... by AHuxley · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I live in Australia, picture a small group of shared walled dwellings down a common concrete driveway.
      My copper phoneline is crushed. I get adsl 2+ and voice from wires via my neighbours phoneline.
      The idea that "suburbia" is packed with pure copper ethernet goodness vs corroding/crushed ducts and pits is hopeful. What telco would want repair data would have to be opened up .
      Best just to stall roll outs by competitors and wait for that magic internal roll out cost number to go down over a few more years.
      What would the cost be of fixing/testing old copper and then having to share it with other isp's at a 'fed' watched wholesale rate?
      Let it rot and roll out your own closed next gen solution.

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    14. Re:Great news but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I live near boulder creek and can only get about 1mbit on a good day, not to mention the 2-3 second latency but that is surfnet's wireless sucking unfortunately the only option out here, no cable/dsl available. I feel your pain.

    15. Re:Great news but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm in an apartment block in Au, currently on ADSL2+, and synching at 22Mb or so.

      I'd love to get better upload than the measly 1Mb for current offerings, IIRC only Internode offer Annex M for ~2-2.5 Mb uploads over ADSL2+.

      VDSL is a pipe dream, better off waiting for the NBN to ensure you can get ADSL2+ everywhere, as FTTH is going to be a long way off :( Even 10/10 over fibre would be a great improvement, both latency and upload bandwidth.

    16. Re:Great news but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      1) Japan was offering DSL speeds of 60 Mbps back in 2007:

      That's not over DSL. More likely fiber.

    17. Re:Great news but... by badran · · Score: 1

      I know a location in Lviv Ukraine with pre-WWII wiring which gets 24/1 ADSL2+, granted is under 1KM from the exchange.

      I get full ADSL2+ goodness with my 60 or 70's wiring.

      I cannot understand how "Palo Alto, California. Silicon Valley, USA." does not have a better connection...

      Also the building I am living in is covered by 3 other ISP's that provide Cable Internet via fiber.

    18. Re:Great news but... by ls671 · · Score: 1
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    19. Re:Great news but... by Shakrai · · Score: 1

      No they won't. POTS landlines are a dying product. Do you really think that your local ILEC has a shortage of free copper pairs in the local loop? Not likely, unless you live on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere.

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    20. Re:Great news but... by NoMaster · · Score: 4, Interesting

      However, standard practice here in Australia, as required by telecommunication's law is actually 2 pairs. Red & Black and Green & Black I think. Never was a techie, just did line programming & cable records.

      I was a techie (exchange mtce), then got suckered into liney-land via DSL installs / faults.

      2 pairs - White & Blue, Red & Black (mostly) - but that's only for the lead-in from the pit to the NBP (first socket / external J-box), or maybe from the building MDF or IDFs to the unit/townhouse. In theory, internal stuff should be at least 2pr, but you've gotta remember 90+% of it these days is installed by builders (i.e. as cheaply as possible) & signed off by their pet electricians, so that's not a given. Plenty of single-pair in internal cabling, although that's rapidly being superseded by CAT-5 - which they usually manage to put a staple through, crush under sheeting, or just plain stretch so you're *lucky* to get a single pair that works...

      (Seriously - I've forgotten how many brand-spankin'-new installs I'd attended where I had to split all 4 pairs differently around the house just to get a single line to all points.)

      And let's not talk about the so-called "technician" contractors Telstra passes the lead-in installs & replacements to. I've seen lead-in buried solid (with just short lengths of conduit at the building and pit end end so it passes inspection), and CAT-5 lead-in that's such crap it's gone low IR 40 minutes after getting damp...

      Besides, as a cable assigner you'd know the real problem is the lack of free/working pairs in the mains to the pillar, or especially the O-side street cabling. A 2pr lead-in is fine, but there's nowhere near enough capacity to extend 2 pairs for more than a few people all the way back to the pillar, let alone the exchange or local cabinet...

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    21. Re:Great news but... by mirix · · Score: 2, Funny

      Obviously the 70+ year old GLORIOUS WIRING OF THE PEOPLE is superior to shitty imperialist wiring, duh.

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    22. Re:Great news but... by mirix · · Score: 1

      I remembered Lviv was under Poland before WWII. So I guess it was still imperialist wiring after all. I guess they don't make 'em like they used to.

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    23. Re:Great news but... by paganizer · · Score: 1

      Hi.
      I live on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere.
      It's 6 Miles / 10km to the nearest CLEC.
      I do, however, have 2 lines running to my house; it's apparently a Tennessee requirement.

      I Also used to have ISDN (which is STILL subsidized in TN), until someone local put up a blindingly fast 592 down / 192 up WiFi service.

      Gods, I miss civilization sometimes.

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    24. Re:Great news but... by JasterBobaMereel · · Score: 1

      "Most homes have been wired for 2 lines for decades." ...

      Really!, tell that to any UK telecoms person and they will laugh at you .... ...I suspect this is also untrue in most countries including the US .... why would they lay more copper than they need?

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    25. Re:Great news but... by BobPaul · · Score: 1

      Do me a favor and take off your wall plate. You'll probably find a cord with Red, Yellow, Green, and Black wires. That's 4. For 2 phone lines.

      It's cheaper to run 1 cable with 4 wires now, and then attach the unused wires later than it is to run 1 cable with 2 wires and then rip out walls later. Likewise, it's cheaper to bury one cable with 6 or 8 wires between your house and your neighborhood CO than it is to run 1 cable with 2 wires and then dig up the ground when you decide you want a 2nd phone line for a month and a half.

      Wires are cheap. Installing them is expensive.

    26. Re:Great news but... by biryokumaru · · Score: 1

      Are you serious? Why would you pay $100 for someone to just splice some wires together? That's insane. It's like taking your car into the dealership to change the wiper blades.

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    27. Re:Great news but... by BobPaul · · Score: 1

      He might live in America. Here anything after the point of entry into the building is owned by the home owner. The telephone company owns the lines in your yard and the box on the side of your house, but beyond that it's the home owner's responsibility. The boxes generally even have an unlocked side where the home owner can attach their own lines

    28. Re:Great news but... by BobPaul · · Score: 1

      The streets are mostly fiber, even in the 13k town in Northern Minnesota where I grew up. The copper only runs from your local Central Office to your home. This could be a few miles or it could be right in your neighborhood. Cable companies have largely done this, too. Fiber to a distribution point, and then a coax line feeding each neighborhood. The only difference with the cable companies is that you share that piece of coax with your neighbors, whereas the copper bundle with 4-8 pairs (of which your using one) between your home and the CO only runs to your home.

      Since they already have the 2 pairs needed running from the CO to your home, they won't have to run any more copper. They might need to run a single line into your house if your home only has 1 pair of phone wires, but that's cheap and they'll over charge for it.

    29. Re:Great news but... by BobPaul · · Score: 1

      Well sure, but what's that have to do with what I said?

    30. Re:Great news but... by Shakrai · · Score: 1

      I do, however, have 2 lines running to my house; it's apparently a Tennessee requirement.

      That doesn't mean there's actually two copper pairs available on the outside plant. My employer is out in the middle of nowhere -- we have 25 pairs coming into our building from the pole. Only using eight of them, six for POTS lines and two for a T-1. When we had the T-1 provisioned it took them 12 weeks to make it happen -- they didn't have two free pairs on their plant and wound up having to multiplex some of the POTS lines to free them up.

      By and large though is a non-issue in urban/suburban areas.

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    31. Re:Great news but... by Demonantis · · Score: 1

      I mean to say that because there are two lines doesn't mean anything to the phone company when they look at the viability of new business plans.

    32. Re:Great news but... by paganizer · · Score: 1

      "That doesn't mean there's actually two copper pairs available on the outside plant"

      As I said, I think it would in most places in Tennessee; they refused to call it a subsidized thing, but the TN congress made a deal with Bellsouth, or possible MA Bell, that TN residents could get ISDN for $35 a month; I'm pretty sure it's still in effect. I first tried it back in '97 when ISDN was a pretty speedy option for getting on the internet, then in '05 when I came back to the state again and ISDN was the only way to get on the internet faster than dial-up. And $35 for 2 phone lines and a uncompressed 64k connection isn't really that bad.

      I've done a lot of network wiring throughout the state, and invariably the residential phone lines with have 2 pairs of copper line coming in.

      If i was insane enough to try to put a T-1 in at my house, I would imagine it would take at LEAST 6 months for them to get enough free lines to make a bond.

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    33. Re:Great news but... by Shakrai · · Score: 1

      Ah, ISDN. I never got to mess around with that at home. We did use it to connect some remote offices once upon a time. One time it stopped working and my Cisco router started throwing a weird error code that nobody (not even a CCIE friend of mine) had ever seen before. The calls were being made but disappearing in the ether somewhere. It took Verizon three days to figure out what had gone wrong with their switch. Most of that time was spent trying to explain what ISDN was to their techs. They finally found someone knowledgeable about it (apparently there aren't too many of those in Upstate NY) and she managed to fix the problem in half an hour.

      BTW, I forgot to comment before, but I like your sig. I'm not sure I'd call myself a pagan but I'm attracted to concept of polytheism. I'm also a libertarian. Glad to meet you :)

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  3. Good Bye Comcast by linzeal · · Score: 1

    May the gods bless these magnificent researchers with a bountiful harvest, many wives and obedient children.

    Seriously, what pisses me off more than anything about the past 10 years of broadband was we were moving towards such a bright future with the ability to choose from dozens of DSL providers in some areas until they stopped upgrading the DSLAMS in my area and we were stuck at 8 Mb/s. I checked recently and the fastest I can get at my new apartment is 1 Mb/s for DSL.

    1. Re:Good Bye Comcast by sopssa · · Score: 0

      Can you already get VDSL2? Otherwise it's not going to help much. Currently it has a maximum of 250 Mbit/s at source to and 50 Mbit/s at 1km/0.6miles. This is just improving that existing speed.

    2. Re:Good Bye Comcast by dmgxmichael · · Score: 2, Informative

      Right - like AT&T and Verizon are any better. Seriously, if we don't start regulating carriers soon they're going to be regulating us.

  4. So... 85% copper by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 1

    About 65 percent of subscribers have a broadband connection that's based on DSL, compared to 20 percent for cable

    My cable is made out of copper...

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    1. Re:So... 85% copper by mirix · · Score: 2, Informative

      RG-6 is copper plated steel. cheaper.

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    2. Re:So... 85% copper by nometacognition · · Score: 1

      If you are counting anything more than 70% of a total person's mass as human then you are being too generous.

    3. Re:So... 85% copper by adolf · · Score: 1

      Cheaper and just as good, due to skin effect.

  5. related news from stanley: by luckymutt · · Score: 1

    Hey guys! We just developed a way to make our motorcar go twice as fast as it did before!

  6. Um by odd42 · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with gigabit?

    Too much attenuation?

    1. Re:Um by Yaa+101 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      No, why bring 1Gbs immediately instead of an elevated route to 1Gbs and make a shitload of money in the process?

      These are the conflicting interests between you and the telecom company, besides all this nice equipment needs to be paid as well.

      I am afraid though that most US based people will see these speeds in the 23rd century if the telecoms over there keep their current pace.

    2. Re:Um by pspahn · · Score: 1
      besides all this nice equipment needs to be paid as well

      The machines are getting paychecks now too? What's next? The homeless?

      ...oh.

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    3. Re:Um by mirix · · Score: 1

      Last I checked copper Gb ethernet needs 4 pair, and is only good for 100m.
      Not much good unless you live inside the central office.

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    4. Re:Um by mr_mischief · · Score: 1

      I thought I'd head something about a version that demanded a better quality cable as a baseline in order to use fewer pairs. I checked Google for 'copper Gb ehternet', which got me information from Wikipedia.

      1000Base-T requires four pair of Cat5 or higher.
      1000Base-TX requires two pair of Cat6 or higher.

      1000Base-TX is largely a commercial failure, and many 1000Base-T items are incorrectly labeled 1000Base-TX out of confusion, since the most popular version of 100 is 100Base-TX.

      The distance is the same for 1000Base-TX as 1000Base-T. The only difference is the trade of demanding better cabling for fewer pairs.

      100 meters might be useful for people if the phone companies put mini-DSLAMs in their service pedestals and had sufficient back-haul from there. Although some companies are working on deploying mini-DSLAMs, those are usually neighborhood by neighborhood and not four or so households at a time.

      Gbps with the last portion being copper might work in a tightly packed area like a high-rise apartment or business complex or a dorm. Otherwise, that sort of speed is going to need different tech.

  7. 24 mbps by nometacognition · · Score: 0, Troll

    How do I go to slashdot and filter stories that reference any "broadband" story that references stories over 24 mbps? I buy 22. But the local "fastest" advertised speed is 24. Really though, maybe a filter that just cleans 100 mbps and above? Oh wait. In my imagination I have 1000 and don't live in my mom's basement. ps the latter isn't true.

  8. Probably Won't Ever See It... by sabinelr · · Score: 1

    Qwest is still too cheap to put in a new DSLAM to give me 1.5 Mb. Where I live in the middle of a city of about 60,000, it might as well be a giant trailer park for all the service we get here. On the other hand, Comcast has the whole place wired to as fast as possible.

    1. Re:Probably Won't Ever See It... by pspahn · · Score: 1

      I live in Downtown Denver, about three short blocks away from their largest residential CO, and I still only qualify for 7. I know, I should be smitten, but you'd think they'd have their own backyard wired up.

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    2. Re:Probably Won't Ever See It... by uvajed_ekil · · Score: 2, Funny

      Where I live in the middle of a city of about 60,000, it might as well be a giant trailer park for all the service we get here.

      Hey, you insensitive city-slicker, nowadays we say "mobile home neighborhood." Don't be tryin ta keep us down with yer "trail park" junk. Ya'll can keep ya'll's high-rise apartments, wiel we be OWNIN are double-wide son. Yall just gel-us cus we get the same computer internet AND EBAY plus we can park the rig rite next too are door. Step here bringin that and well get the 12 gauge oh wait you cant cus the bus dont come outside downtown!!! (we gots cable internet anyway plus 350 channils and free cheez. 350 channils i love America!!!!)
      PS we got the new CRAIGSLIST to!!!!!!!!

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    3. Re:Probably Won't Ever See It... by mcgrew · · Score: 1

      Hey, Bubba, what you got against trailers? Do you call a spade a "pointy shovel"?

      "I know where your momma parks your house!" -Earl Hickey

    4. Re:Probably Won't Ever See It... by sabinelr · · Score: 1

      I can't afford to live in a trailer park. I'm still using the lawnmower I bought 20 years ago. Do you have 6 Mb DSL? I'm jealous. Ever tried to watch a Netflix stream at 256k? Takes me a week to catch up on Lost. Still on season 3.
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  9. Gigabit by Falconhell · · Score: 3, Informative

    The problem with all copper lines is capacitance,
    which acts as a low pass filter. The longer the line the more high frequencies are lost, which in effect takes the "edges" off of the pulses, making differetiation difficult. No ammount of technolgy is going to change the laws of physics. (:

    All kinds of tricks are use such as QAM and different forms of compression to cram more down a copper pair.

    All POTS work on 2 wires. Even if one has several pairs coming into the premises it is unlikely that there will be enough spares all the way to the exchange.(Would you put in double the ammount of copper needed on the off chance that it might be needed later.

    The extra incoming wire are mainly for spares in case of faults.

    Here in .au I have ADSL2 which at my current location provides 15mb/s.

    1. Re:Gigabit by teh+dave · · Score: 1

      Here in .au I have 2Mbps/0.5Mbps. And that is a great speed considering I'm 6.1km from the exchange. I'd be ecstatic if these improvements let me take that up to, say, 15Mbps/2Mbps but I really don't think we'll see them here anyway. At least, not at affordable prices.

    2. Re:Gigabit by afidel · · Score: 1

      This would be used to connect to mini-DSLAM's at the node level, not to the CO (Exchange). Besides, in the US there was always plenty of spare capacity in the 500 pair trunks for extra revenue services like multi-line businesses, and with somewhere approaching half of all households dropping landlines and businesses going with VoIP offerings I bet there's more spare pairs then ever.

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    3. Re:Gigabit by Falconhell · · Score: 1

      I think it is highly unlikely that there would be many spare pairs.

      In .au RIMMs are used to allow multiple pots on a single pair via frequency division multiplexing, in such a case no-one that is connected via a RIMM can have ADSL services.

    4. Re:Gigabit by afidel · · Score: 1

      It's WAY cheaper to drop a slightly bigger cable in the trench then it is to dig a new trench or use some kind of gizmo that has to be powered and maintained at the node level. Heck, for our new building (~200k sq ft) they brought in 3x 100 pair even though it's unlikely more than a hundred would ever be used even if we get a bunch of smaller tenants using POTS.

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    5. Re:Gigabit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The trick is to notice the SNR is a ratio. What you say is true, capacitance reduces the signal, so what you need to do to preserver SNR is to reduce the noise. That's what VDSL2, and future technologies, do. What most people consider to be noise is in fact interference, and interference is not random. VDSL2 models the interference sources, and subtracts them, so reducing the "noise" and upping the SNR. The ultimate limit to this technique is when all interference sources have been canceled, and all that is left is thermal noise, which truly is random (unless you can model the quantum fluctuations and cancel those too! :-).

    6. Re:Gigabit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This would be used to connect to mini-DSLAM's at the node level, not to the CO (Exchange). Besides, in the US there was always plenty of spare capacity in the 500 pair trunks for extra revenue services like multi-line businesses, and with somewhere approaching half of all households dropping landlines and businesses going with VoIP offerings I bet there's more spare pairs then ever.

      Well, you would think so, but it's actually not the case in many locations. The phone companies might be losing some POTS customers to VoIP but they're picking them right back up with their DSL.
      I actually work for a cable-based ISP and we have indeed taken a lot of people from the local telco's. I work directly with businesses specifically with porting phone systems to a cable-modem based interface, and I can tell you for a fact that in many, many cities the phone companies have been playing shell games with the available pairs for YEARS. If anything, the advent of DSL is making it even more of a problem for them, since you can often pull some "funny business" with voice lines that won't be noticed, but would never work if you're loading DSL up on the copper instead. For example, we recently ported in a customer who supposedly had 12 external lines to their PBX system, and when we got the port the phone company really only had 8 actual lines, but was using some fancy tricks to "make up" the other lines... since most of the lines were for customer rooms in a hotel the owners never really noticed that 4 of the lines were "virtual"... but if they tried loading DSL up on those instead it'd be immediately obvious.

    7. Re:Gigabit by Falconhell · · Score: 1

      Agreed, but just because they have put in 100 pairs does not mean they will all get a copper circuit to the DSLAM/exchange.

      If they use a RIM (remote multiplexer)

      Damn it I spelt it RIMM previously (That was RAMBUS of course!

      http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/?tag=RIM_Remote_Integrated_Multiplexer

      Link states DLC are used in the US which apparently fit 12 VF (Think 28.8k modem) circuits into each pair, using 2 pairs to create a T1 line from the RIM to the exchange.

      Who knows, you may have the capacity available, but increasingly these days RIMs are used to maximize the capacity of existing copper.

      DSL/ADSL requires a pair all the way to the Exchange/DSLAM to get maximum speed. I am about a kilometer from the exchange and get 15 mb/s

      It's worth bearing in mind.

      Don't get me wrong, I would like Gigabit to-but that will almost certainly need fibre.

      Copper gigabit ethernet cable runs can only be a maximum of 80 meters long

    8. Re:Gigabit by Malc · · Score: 1

      Never had trouble getting a second phone line installed anywhere I lived in Canada. They'd just hook it up at the pole, and sometimes run a second line (4 wires) from the pole to the house if the existing run wasn't good enough. Then again, DSL in Canada was cheaper in 1999 than when I was living in Australia last year... maybe it's just typical Telestra BS. They have spare lines to the exchange, but maybe not enough for every house in a neighbourhood to have two or more lines.

    9. Re:Gigabit by acoustix · · Score: 1

      Here in .au I have 2Mbps/0.5Mbps. And that is a great speed considering I'm 6.1km from the exchange.

      It doesn't matter how far away you are from the exchange. It matters how far away the DSLAM is.

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    10. Re:Gigabit by teh+dave · · Score: 1

      True, but they're the same thing if the DSLAM is inside the exchange. Which isn't always the case, so I shouldn't assume it is.

    11. Re:Gigabit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's the same over here in germany if you live out in the boonies, in a place where they miscalculated the demand for telephone lines decades ago. It's practically unheard of in settlements with more than 10 households or so.

    12. Re:Gigabit by mcgrew · · Score: 1

      No ammount of technolgy is going to change the laws of physics

      True, but technology can often get around them.

    13. Re:Gigabit by chrish · · Score: 1

      The exciting thing is that you're not missing anything; DSL in Canada hasn't changed since 1999. Sure they advertise higher "up to" speeds for both DSL and Cable, but they're both so ridiculously oversubscribed and filtered that you'll still be getting about 3M bits/sec down on good days.

      Bell's got a service called "Fibe" (http://bell.ca/fibe) now, which suggests fiber, but is just ADSL2, IIRC. There's basically no fiber to the home in Canada at this time. But at least we pay a lot!

      *shakes fist impotently at ILECs*

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    14. Re:Gigabit by Malc · · Score: 1

      I was getting quite a lot of G.DMT connection (not ADSL2+) for $25 from Teksavvy.com when I when I moved to China two years ago. It looks to me like prices have gone up to $30 speeds down from 6mbs to 5mbs. At least they still offer dry loop DSL. Here in the UK one is required to have a phone line (BT charges about £10-15) before evening paying for the internet connection (£25 - expensive compared to Canada even after the crash of GBP), and only getting 6mbs/448kbs (yes that upstream is killing me). Once my year contract is up I will hopefully find a better deal.

  10. AT&T DSL Pro: 2.5Mbit max by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is it a common speed in CA or am I a lone looser here?

  11. Uverse eater! by Mantis8 · · Score: 1

    If this really is as the article states, then it is 12x faster than AT&T's quickest version of uverse and at much greater distances. Currently, you have to be within 3,000 feet of the CO to get uverse, which is much less than dsl, which can go out to around 15,000 feet or so.

  12. 1 KM really does not exist. by Eravnrekaree · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They so often say you need to be 1 km from the CO. But a loop extender or node can be used to extend it to areas far beyond 1 km distance, in fact, to extend service many, many miles away, even dozens, basically which rejuvenates the signal, and possibly connects to a fiber trunk, although electronics can probably be developed to regenerate the signal even over a very long copper run, which is made even easier with the digital signal. The investment in that is far less than laying all new cable. It requires perhaps some electronic equipment every mile or so. This would, it is often forgotten, cut down on the cost needed to extend broadband to remote areas. It is probably the cheapest way to do it as much of the infrastructure can be reused. Its much better than the insane and crazy idea of BPL which is unfeasible and has so many more technical problems (RFI).

    1. Re:1 KM really does not exist. by rsmith-mac · · Score: 1

      If it were really that easy, telcos would already be doing so to get high-speed VDSL2 (U-verse and such) to more of their urban and suburban customers who are sitting just out of range of those services. They aren't doing this, so clearly there's a major catch.

    2. Re:1 KM really does not exist. by Renraku · · Score: 2, Informative

      The issue isn't just distance.

      It's things like bridge taps that cause destructive interference and mangle the DSL signal, grounding issues, cumulative interference, etc, that are the real problems with getting very high speed DSL out into the boonies. Even improper termination or a rusty nail rubbing against the line can cause enough interference to kill a DSL signal!

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    3. Re:1 KM really does not exist. by nometacognition · · Score: 0
      Is the ground so dense in the mountains that the telcos don't lay cable? Fiber or copper?

      Oh CO doesn't mean colorado... We had years with men digging out by the sidewalks. Do you mean to say you can't remember the fiber being laid? If you can't you are don't have access to broadband. I believe the term is sneakernet. Or workboot-net. I prefer the hyphen.

    4. Re:1 KM really does not exist. by ShakaUVM · · Score: 1

      There can be a lot of problems even still. I can see the local box from my window (well, I could if there wasn't a house in the way), and I had the damndest time getting VDSL installed. DSL had problems too, but the higher bitrate of VDSL caused the problems to get a lot worse.

      Had intermittent outages from February through November. Called 9 times for AT&T guys to come out and look at it, but it always started working again before they got here, so they'd just kind of dick around, proclaim it fixed, and make me repeat the process a week later when it went down again.

      Finally, it went down for an entire week last Thanksgiving. This was bad because I'd just bought Dragon Age: Origins on Steam and couldn't play it (because Steam sucks - if it knows there's an update available, it won't download it, but will refuse to run in offline mode until you get it), but was also a good thing because the techs could finally find out what the problem was - moisture getting in the conduit between my apartment building and the box a couple hundred feet away. (Before that, they just kept "fixing" the wiring in my apartment over and over and over again.) Took them about a week to get a construction team out, but it's been working perfectly since then.

      Just ran a Speakeasy speed test:
      Download Speed: 22398 kbps (2799.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
      Upload Speed: 2895 kbps (361.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

      Is not bad.

    5. Re:1 KM really does not exist. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That isn't bad for DSL. But Comcast cable is nearly as fast:
      Download Speed: 16350 kbps (2043.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
      Upload Speed: 3522 kbps (440.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

      OTOH, Comcast cheats by using PB. But coming from someone wishing for U-Verse availability, those DSL speeds leave me a little disappointed.

    6. Re:1 KM really does not exist. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      how are you going to power all those 'signal rejuvenators'? telephone wire cant carry many amps.

  13. Yup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is the correct answer.

  14. DSL degrades over disatnce. by mjwx · · Score: 1

    At what rate does VDSL2 degrade. With ADSL 2+ it degrades beyond a point of usefulness at 4-6 KM, Once you get past 2 KM the curve increases lowering speed significantly.

    I live 3.3 Kilometres from my telephone Exchange and can barely get 3 Mbit/s. For the most part I get 1-1.3 Mbit/s. Can VDSL help extend the useful range of DSL?

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    1. Re:DSL degrades over disatnce. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, VDSL2 8B (~20.5dbm launch power, similar to ADSL/ADSL2+) is supposed to converge to ADSL2+ speeds on longer loops, but because VDSL2 line cards have line drivers and AFE's optimized for short loops, real world tests with VDSL2 8B shows performance is worse than ADSL2+ at loops above 6000ft.

    2. Re:DSL degrades over disatnce. by sznupi · · Score: 1

      I don't think it's a case of distance per se in your case, more very poor line quality at some point...

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  15. Doubt this will help longer lines by Cimexus · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sounds nice for those with short lines...

    I live about ~3km from my exchange (in Australia), which unfortunately reduces my 24 Mbps (max) ADSL2+ service to 6.2 Mbit (without interleaving) or 7.7 Mbit (with interleaving). Any technology that can squeeze a bit more out of my old rusty copper wire sounds nice to me, at least until the national broadband network (fibre) gets rolled out in 3-4 more years.

    Having said that I have a funny suspicion this won't help anyone stuck on a longer line (i.e. any line that wouldn't really support VDSL now). The move from ADSL1 to ADSL2 and ADSL2+ improved the 'max' speed of the service for those close to the exchange, but any xDSL technology seems to hit a certain distance where that benefit is lost.

    This graph shows this nicely - ADSL2+ (in green) is way faster than ADSL1 (blue) for shorter/less attenuated lines. But beyond around 4km, it offers virtually no improvement at all. And I suspect the laws of physics are at play here such that this new VDSL variant wouldn't be any different.

  16. Welcome to 1995 South Korea by Deliveranc3 · · Score: 1

    I guess these aren't the guys who liscence stuff, how could they? It's not like they were handed, oh, $200 billion dollars, say.

    A friend from Korea reports that the multi gigabit stuff is all the rage.

    Guess what! People have copper!

  17. nice. what's the backchannel like? by Eunuchswear · · Score: 2, Insightful

    300Mbps/64Kbps would be rather boring.

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  18. 400m, 1000m, all well and good... by Eunuchswear · · Score: 1

    but what does it do at 3500m?

    (Guess why that interests me).

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  19. Slashvertisement? by fpitech · · Score: 1

    Alcatel-Lucent surely isn't the first one to implement bonding, and it has also been used with ADSL2+. And they are not the first ones to come up with vectoring, that is used to reduce crosstalk. The article makes it seem like Alcatel-Lucent has done something incredible, even though there will be ITU-T standard and equipment from at least Ericsson.

  20. Notes from a small island by GuyFawkes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Called the UK.

    In some ways I am lucky, I live in the south-west, a city called Exeter, 40 miles from Plymouth and the Mayflower Steps for the yanks. In some ways this is lucky because this region is used to market test many products and technologies before they get a nationwide launch.

    In 2001 BT first offered ADSL, it was 128/512 kbit, and used the green alcatel stingray / frog thing.

    In 2004 Telewest took over the cable TV/telephone company, and put in the internet as a cable option, I switched.

    Today I can get either max 8 mbit adsl over (twisted pair) copper, or max 50 mbit cable over (coax) copper.

    Due to traffic shaping and throttling and oversold contention ratios, I can max out the 8 mbit adsl at a rock solid 6 mbit and actually achieve a greater throughput than I can from the theoretically far faster (up to) 20 mbit cable package.

    The only other alternative was either ISDN or horrendously expensive leased line, which started at around 30k bucks per annum for 2 mbit.

    I spent 5 years up until 2004 trying to convince the cable company to provide internet over their pipes, and quite frankly even though I was talking to senior managers they just didn't "get it".

    I have to tell you that nothing has changed, they still don't "get it", "it" being the internet.

    They still think in dial up terms of pence per minute, or utility terms of pence per kWh or cubic foot.

    Frankly speaking the UK economy is fucked, and none of the politicians get it either, especially not the pirate party, in the run up to the general elections.

    What we need is a MASSIVE public works deal, just like the yank New Deal when they built the interstates, and roll out SYMMETRIC cable AND ipv6 to every home, set a target, project to be completed within 3 years.

    Since we are starting today we need to future proof, so it has to be gigabit each way.

    It has to be fibre / laser, not anything on copper, or anything wireless.

    It will have the same effect as the building of the interstates, it will open and enable markets that previously did not exist.

    Even allowing for overspends, it would come in at less than 50 billion UK pounds, and that spread over 3 years.

    All slashdotters, ask yourself this, can you see any opportunities for yourself, and your company, if you were told this was being rolled out in your area? project starting in 4 months and completed in 40?

    gigabit up/down and ipv6, does this enable anything you can't do now? things that will generate revenue and stimulate the economy? things that will have a benefit for society that can't just be measured in dollars and cents?

    discuss.

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    1. Re:Notes from a small island by Rogerborg · · Score: 1

      Since we are starting today we need to future proof, so it has to be gigabit each way.

      What's the point? Your cable example shows exactly why the last mile is not the problem: you'll get throttled upstream anyway.

      Which reminds me, Virgin Media are well overdue a bitch-slapping from the ASA for their ludicrous speed claims. The basic 10Mb/s package is a joke, since it only takes 10 minutes use at 10Mb/s to hit the usage cap and get throttled down to 2Mb/s. In effect, it's a 2Mb/s service with occasional bursts of 10Mb/s performance.

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    2. Re:Notes from a small island by GuyFawkes · · Score: 1

      That is exactly the point, in the States, Greyhound (now owned by Stagecoach I believe) and here in the UK National Express and Stagecoach DO NOT CONTROL THE motorways / interstate.

      connectivity and bandwidth should be classed as INFRASTRUCTURE, not a private toll road.

      Really, fuck Virgin, and BT, and everyone else, they have their corporate fingers in enough other pies.

      Japan, Korea, Sweden, all these countries prove that there is NO VALID REASON WHATSOEVER that this infrastructure cannot be put in to place.

      Corporations have had a decade to do this (and they have had the money / subsidies / grants too, especially in the US) and they have chosen to do nothing. FUCK THEM, and the horse they rode in on.

      This is more important to society than some CEO getting a fat bonus.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal

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    3. Re:Notes from a small island by Rogerborg · · Score: 1

      Calm down, Sparky. If you want to roll out some Communist "3 year plan", then sure, let's get on it, but it needs to be targeted at the backbone, not the last mile. Create a surplus of supply (more backbone capacity), and the cost of supplying to the home will come down. Just drive up demand at the home, make the supply even scarcer, and what do you think will happen to the cost, or the service?

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    4. Re:Notes from a small island by Malc · · Score: 1

      That sounds like a waste of money. I think the country would benefit more by spending that money on education, or more preventative health care. Or just paying the interest on Gordon Brown's debts.

    5. Re:Notes from a small island by mjwalshe · · Score: 1

      This isnt "interesting" its just insane. rewire the UK in 40 months WTF are you smoking or are you just going to leave some porn mags and some vodka next to the Cab and the Fibre Faries will come on thier magic flying unicorns and do it by magic? and you just move the choak point up to the Exchange/Cab

      Guy 99.99% of residential users dont need symetrical 1Gbps links you cant run a countrys telco stratergy on the needs of a few - whos going to pay for it.

      There isn't an unlimited pot of cash to do all this what would you cut? winter fuel allowence free tv licences for pensioners? the 50p levey on lines to help BB roll out was very unpopular with the average voater.

      Anyone who waffles on about IPv6 needs to be modded down IPV6 is product despretly looking for a reaeon to exist.

      An no there are NO "opportunities for yourself, and your company," if the fibre faries came and did this in the night.

    6. Re:Notes from a small island by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Need"? All people "need" is water, food, and shelter. The rest is luxury.

    7. Re:Notes from a small island by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I live in Lancaster, right on top of one of the major backbones and about 3k from the university, which sustains some insane multi-Gigabit connection (and is a major ISP/AS in the region).

      Over my BT 'up to 24 Mbit' ADSL2 connection we get ~6Mbit on off-peak times. We don't have a FUP, and pay to be prioritised over other packages, having BT's most expensive home internet, yet it's frequently down due to service outages and BT ruin our rates between 2pm and 11pm (which they apparently do to less than 1% of customers). Since I live in a shared house (only 4 people) we sustain monthly throughput of around 70-80GB, most of this going on BBC iplayer videos and other popular sources for which BT has dedicated (and unshaped) routes.

      We don't torrent, fileshare, etc etc, since we can do all of that from the uni with less pain, and yet we are still shaped to the point where web pages load slowly, like the days of dial-up. Since I host my svn and other relatively necessary things from my house this can be quite annoying.

      Some friends of mine pay for a similar service. They live within 1km of the university, and manage around 1.2Mbit. It basically means their net is suitable only for web use. The same is true back where my family live on the east coast, ~2Mbit, but up to 24 promised.

      The insane contentions, FUPs, throttling and disclaimers all allow the various internet providers to claim even these modest targets are met, all the while presenting poor service and line speed to end customers.

  21. Different ways that things are done... by Targon · · Score: 1

    For those who want to see things be "open" so that multiple providers can use the same wires, you need to have an infrastructure in place that has not been paid for ONLY by private companies, and that is where the problems come from. For DSL service here in the USA, much of the copper infrastructure for the telephone system was subsidized by the US government in the push to put telephone coverage in EVERY house. This is why for DSL, you CAN have multiple providers in a given area in the USA. For cable and fiber on the other hand, the US government has avoided getting involved in ANYTHING of a technical nature for a long time now, so we won't see fiber or cable going to every house for Internet, and it becomes more difficult for the government to force private companies to do things with lines that have been placed and maintained by private companies.

    The USA is a BIG country with a lot of very rural areas, and without government involvement, it is not going to be profitable to run high speed Internet to many rural areas, just due to the maintenance costs compared to how much money they can really charge for the service in those rural areas($50/month in West Virginia is too much for many people just for Internet access for example). In smaller countries like Japan, it becomes easier to bring high speed to EVERY home, just because the country is so small in comparison. What some people don't realize is that New York State alone is larger than many countries, and the state government is BROKE, with no money to spend on projects. The FEDERAL government is also broke, but just keeps printing money and spending, so they act like someone with an Amex platinum card who go on a spending spree for one month, and then end up in debt for the rest of their lives.

  22. And this will change anything .... HOW? by luckytroll · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Great, now the ISPs will have even higher speeds to lie to us about in their advertising.

    Seriously. All this means is that we will hit our caps faster, and/or will feel the throttling more painfully.

    When you are being throttled to 25Kb/s, it dosen't matter how fast your last mile can go - It becomes all about
    making long-haul ISP links cheap as dirt so the ISP dosent feel a need to throttle their oversubscribed backhaul link to the 'net.

    1. Re:And this will change anything .... HOW? by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 1

      Or in the case of certain ISPs (Bell Sympatico), the cap will be hit even faster, since they lower the cap every time they up the speed offering!?

      --
      Jumpstart the tartan drive.
  23. Actual speeds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    TFA claims average advertised speeds of 9.2 Mbps and 1.9Mbps around the world currently. How about giving us numbers that actually correspond to the real world instead? We all know advertised speeds are usually a load of bull.

  24. People do not use much bandwidth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Considering that people use the internet primarily for web browsing, which is not that demanding. The major high bandwidth activity is downloading movies. Therefore, I doubt a widescale fiber optic deployment will do much to boost the economy.

    1. Re:People do not use much bandwidth by GuyFawkes · · Score: 1

      Considering that people use unmetalled roads mainly for walking, or the pony and trap, which is not that demanding. The major high capacity loads are transporting foodstuffs. Therefore I doubt that widescale metalled roads and interstates will do much to boost the economy.

      --
      http://slashdot.org/~GuyFawkes/journal
  25. 300mb over 400 meters.. so what? by EriktheGreen · · Score: 1
    Those of you excited about this should take a closer look. This is a breakthrough for data over copper, but fiber is faster, and this tech is only useful for locations that are densely populated with short wire distances... IE the same locations where fiber could be installed economically. There have been dozens of "breakthroughs" like this over the years, and none of them has substantially improved high speed access in the US. Mostly they're incremental upgrades for DSL users, a lot of whom don't see the full speed promised anyway.

    It's always been possible to transfer large amounts of data over relatively short distances. If you shorten the distance to bus length you can transfer dozens of gigabytes per second. 400 meters is almost no distance as far as telco wiring is concerned.

    The problem that has existed since the internet began (and since I was an ISP tech in the late 90s) is that the central office to subscriber connection is slow, operates over short distances, and is handicapped by the desire (on the phone companies' part) to use existing infrastructure.

    The public telephone network was built at taxpayer cost and "inherited" by the various post-bell system phone companies. They didn't pay for it in the first place and they're not going to pay to replace it if they can help it. They have some of the most legally protected profit margins anywhere... imagine if you were handed an infrastructure with thousands of subscribers, guaranteed no competition, and otherwise allowed to make as much money as you can in exchange for some occasional government regulation... it's every businessman's dream (provided they're not completely ethical). Having the gravy train rolling in doesn't give them any incentive to build out the network, especially to the less populated areas. They get the same money anyway provided they lie well enough to the government to keep additional regulation and competition away. The only way for them to make less money is to spend it on major improvement projects like replacing the old copper pairs to each house with fiber, especially if you do it in areas where people can't or won't pay a premium price for the service, IE the areas that don't have high speed internet now.

    The same telco companies have even requested money from the federal government in tax breaks and outright subsidies over the years to "bring internet into rural communities". I have to laugh when I hear that. Many rural communities in the US still have dial-up only. The telcos go on their merry way and pocket the money.. after all, that's what they're good at.

    Greatly expanded speeds over copper for a relatively short distance are pointless because it doesn't help with the access problem. All this improved technology means is that for a small subset of DSL users in densely populated metro areas where the telco is willing to upgrade equipment a speed increase to the telco will be seen. Who knows if the bandwidth exists at the central office to make it worth it? The telcos aren't going to spend money to link multiple intermediate sites together with the high speed tech to extend service out to sparsely populated areas. Sure, it would work technically, but it costs money for little return. Despite the fact that they're effectively subsidized by the taxpayers, they're under no obligation to help the taxpayers.

    What's really needed to kick off broadband development is someone other than the phone companies taking on network service delivery to the home, without using the public telephone network and without handing money to the telcos. Like Google is trying to do... I guess if you get enough money on your side in this country, you find the power to do things. Too bad the government can't do things like that itself. Change, pfft. It's too late.

    Now, a communications break through that lets 10 mbit bidirectional data be delivered over, say, a 10 wire mile distance (50,000 feet).. that would be a game changer. What's needed is a moderate speed tech that costs the phone companies very little to implement but works over long distances.... something cheap enough for the telcos to preserve their precious profits but still install it and provide service farther out.

    Erik

  26. Re:nice. what's the backchannel like? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    How is this modded insightful? If anybody knew anything at all about VDSL and VDSL2, they would realize the technology is symmetric in nature, meaning that the connection speed per end-point is equal for up and down. So it'd be 300Mbps/300Mbps, you insensitive clod.

  27. US has longer local loops by TheSync · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, this is pretty useless for the US.

    The US has far longer telephone/DSL local loop lengths than almost any other country. Average US local loops are over 4 km, compared with 3 km in the UK and France, or under 2 km in Germany and Italy. And unlike most European countries, almost no loops in the US are under 1.5 km, and the US is one of the few countries to have significant numbers of loops (10% of customers) over 5.5 km. Data source here.

  28. Objection, your hono(u)r!!! We are number 1 ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    the UK (which has a much higher population density than the US)

    As a proud and patriotic American I cannot let your statement go without refutation: America has by far the denser population, bucko!

  29. WTF Mods? IT IS BANG ON-TOPIC. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The comment moderating here just keeps getting shittier. Somebody explain how the fuck is this off-topic?

    It's not my post, but jesus christ this shitty moderating is getting on my wick. This place is allowing total morons to moderate these days.

  30. Re:nice. what's the backchannel like? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As someone else mentioned, it's symetric, so provided your provider aren't wankers you could run a fairly robust web server yourself.

  31. Re:nice. what's the backchannel like? by MobyDisk · · Score: 1

    Although people have also pointed out that it is symmetric over 4 wires. Does that mean 2 wires in, 2 wires out? If so, that sounds like the real answer is 300Mbps/0bps. :-(

  32. Poor lil 'FALCONDOUCHE' ran out of mod points by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    LMAO!

    1. Re:Poor lil 'FALCONDOUCHE' ran out of mod points by Falconhell · · Score: 1

      Dont worry I get them every 2 days, so it wont be long!

  33. FalconDouche quit trying to play 'smart' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As it is not one of your strong suits, falcondouche. By the way, nice job running out of mod points today chasing an ac you will never catch dumbo. Figures that a lame brain non-intellect like you would be so stupid as to fall into blowing your mod points on ac posters as you did today. Then again, nobody ever said you were intelligent, did they, falcondouche? LOL!

    1. Re:FalconDouche quit trying to play 'smart' by Falconhell · · Score: 1

      No worries kindy boy, I will have lots more soon.

      I am quite happy to use them to mod you to oblivion, it is exactly the sort of things moderation is for.

      Silly silly kindy boy.

      Thanks for playing!

  34. Falcondouche: LIVE, absolutely LIVE, lmao by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Falcondouche, please: Spare us your attempts at trying to appear intelligent, when all you are is just another 'I read it in a review on another website and am passing off this information as my own' crap.

    1. Re:Falcondouche: LIVE, absolutely LIVE, lmao by Falconhell · · Score: 1

      Poor little stalking AC, you dont know anything do you? At least you spare us any attempt to look intelligent, but then again with what you post I doubt your IQ is above single digit.

      I qualified as a Telecommunications tech in 1979,
      so I dont need to read reviews on other websites.

      Very poor effort at trolling me by the way, maybe you will be more sucessful with someone in your own age bracket.

      TATA, thanks for playing!

  35. LMAO, & falconDOUCHE fails @ email in 2010 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "I qualified as a Telecommunications tech in 1979" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
    on Tuesday April 27, @11:42PM (#32008806)

    LMAO -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1619750&cid=32008590 see subject above, read url, and rinse-lather-repeat, falconDOUCHE... how stupid can you be? LOL, I bet you did that MERE TECHIE job on lol, telegraphs. I mean based on your dimwit reply in the url above, where you called others names no less?? Please, falconDOUCHE - do you think ANYONE believes that which I quote of you above, after reading the URL below it? LOL, not.

  36. Tell us about IP addresses & email headers lma by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "I qualified as a Telecommunications tech in 1979" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
    on Tuesday April 27, @11:42PM (#32008806)

    LMAO -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1619750&cid=32008590 see subject above, read url, and rinse-lather-repeat, falconDOUCHE... how stupid can you be? LOL, I bet you did that MERE TECHIE job on lol, telegraphs. I mean based on your dimwit reply in the url above, where you called others names no less?? Please, falconDOUCHE - do you think ANYONE believes that which I quote of you above, after reading the URL below it? LOL, not. Chump YOU make it "too easy" to make you look like a FOOL... you can't even get email right (see url to anyone reading, lol), so you're far from a "telecom tech". I'm glad you get your mod points back because the next time you call anyone names like you did in the url above? That quote above, and the url below it, will come to light about your non-existent telecom tech skills (Lol, no way you are or were, because you can't even get simple facts about email right).

  37. Re:Tell us about IP addresses & email headers by Falconhell · · Score: 1

    More amusement from kindy boy, you do realise that there was no email in 1979 dont you? Oh of course being 10 you wouldnt.

    Could you at least try and post something that actually might even begin to be a clever insult, or is this piss weak attempt at trolling the best you can do?

    Thanks for the laughs though, I havent had so much fun for ages!

  38. LMAO, tell us about the history of email, lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "you do realise that there was no email in 1979 dont you? Oh of course being 10 you wouldnt" by Falconhell (1289630)
    on Wednesday April 28, @12:35AM (#32009320)

    Dimwit, there's been email systems since before ARPANET http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html ... utterly unbelievable: Here's a quote from said "HISTORY OF EMAIL":

    ***

    Email is much older than ARPANet or the Internet. It was never invented; it evolved from very simple beginnings.

    Early email was just a small advance on what we know these days as a file directory - it just put a message in another user's directory in a spot where they could see it when they logged in. Simple as that. Just like leaving a note on someone's desk.

    Probably the first email system of this type was MAILBOX, used at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1965. Another early program to send messages on the same computer was called SNDMSG.

    Some of the mainframe computers of this era might have had up to one hundred users -often they used what are called "dumb terminals" to access the mainframe from their work desks. Dumb terminals just connected to the mainframe - they had no storage or memory of their own, they did all their work on the remote mainframe computer.

    Before internetworking began, therefore, email could only be used to send messages to various users of the same computer. Once computers began to talk to each other over networks, however, the problem became a little more complex - We needed to be able to put a message in an envelope and address it. To do this, we needed a means to indicate to whom letters should go that the electronic posties understood - just like the postal system, we needed a way to indicate an address.

    This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972

    ***

    LMAO, wait wait... it gets BETTER next, below (so "play it again, SAM"):

    "I qualified as a Telecommunications tech in 1979" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
    on Tuesday April 27, @11:42PM (#32008806)

    LMAO -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1619750&cid=32008590 see subject above, read url, and rinse-lather-repeat, falconDOUCHE... how stupid can you be? LOL, I bet you did that MERE TECHIE job on lol, telegraphs. I mean based on your dimwit reply in the url above, where you called others names no less?? Please, falconDOUCHE - do you think ANYONE believes that which I quote of you above, after reading the URL below it? LOL, not. Chump YOU make it "too easy" to make you look like a FOOL... you can't even get email right (see url to anyone reading, lol), so you're far from a "telecom tech". I'm glad you get your mod points back because the next time you call anyone names like you did in the url above? That quote above, and the url below it, will come to light about your non-existent telecom tech skills (Lol, no way you are or were, because you can't even get simple facts about email right).

    1. Re:LMAO, tell us about the history of email, lol by Falconhell · · Score: 1

      So there was world wide email in 79, available for everyone. Each time you post your ignorance comes out a little more.

      Trolling the troll! Does it get any better?

  39. I saw this in one of your posts falconhell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They only said this, in response to your ignorance dumbo, lol:

    "you do realise that there was no email in 1979 dont you? Oh of course being 10 you wouldnt" by Falconhell (1289630)
    on Wednesday April 28, @12:35AM (#32009320)

    Dimwit, there's been email systems since before ARPANET http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html ... utterly unbelievable: Here's a quote from said "HISTORY OF EMAIL":

    ***

    Email is much older than ARPANet or the Internet. It was never invented; it evolved from very simple beginnings.
    .
    .
    .

    This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972

    ***

    LMAO, wait wait... it gets BETTER next, below (so "play it again, SAM"):

    "I qualified as a Telecommunications tech in 1979" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
    on Tuesday April 27, @11:42PM (#32008806)

    LMAO -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1619750&cid=32008590 see subject above, read url, and rinse-lather-repeat, falconDOUCHE... how stupid can you be? LOL, I bet you did that MERE TECHIE job on lol, telegraphs. I mean based on your dimwit reply in the url above, where you called others names no less??

    Please, falconDOUCHE - do you think ANYONE believes that which I quote of you above, after reading the URL below it? LOL, not. Chump YOU make it "too easy" to make you look like a FOOL... you can't even get email right (see url to anyone reading, lol), so you're far from a "telecom tech".

    FalconDOUCHE - based on the above and your "fine performance" (lol, not)?

    Well - I have to say it: You are the STUPIDEST person I've ever encountered, literally, on this website in oh, 7 yrs. or so now. I base that on what is above, lmao... hilarious. At least you earn the "dubious honor" of being "STUPIDEST POSTER ON /.", lol (so look at the bright side!)

    1. Re:I saw this in one of your posts falconhell by Falconhell · · Score: 1

      One of us is looking like a fool for sure, but it isnt me who is incoherent and ranting wildly.

      I suppose I could bold things and type in caps to try and look more *credible*, oh wait that just makes one seem juvenille, so I will leave it to you.

      Trolling the troll- fun fun fun

  40. Step in, to "Prof. FalconDOUCHE's" email class by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    LMAO - you're right about 1 thing: I didn't HAVE to "land a blow" as you called it - YOU DID THE JOB FOR ME (lmao), read on to those reading... this is "vintage Professor 'FalconDOUCHE'" @ his finest below, lol:

    "you do realise that there was no email in 1979 dont you? Oh of course being 10 you wouldnt" by Falconhell (1289630)
    on Wednesday April 28, @12:35AM (#32009320)

    Dimwit, there's been email systems since before ARPANET http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html ... utterly unbelievable: Here's a quote from said "HISTORY OF EMAIL":

    ***

    Email is much older than ARPANet or the Internet. It was never invented; it evolved from very simple beginnings.

    This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972

    ***

    LMAO, wait wait... it gets BETTER next, below (so "play it again, SAM"):

    "I qualified as a Telecommunications tech in 1979" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
    on Tuesday April 27, @11:42PM (#32008806)

    LMAO -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1619750&cid=32008590 see subject above, read url, and rinse-lather-repeat, falconDOUCHE... how stupid can you be? LOL, I bet you did that MERE TECHIE job on lol, telegraphs.

    I mean based on your dimwit reply in the url above, where you messed up on the fact that hotmail does give away your IP address, and where YOU called others names no less??

    LMAO!

    (Man - Please, falconDOUCHE - do you think ANYONE believes that which I quote of you above, after reading the URL below it? LOL, not! LMAO - you can't even get email right (see url to anyone reading, lol), so you're far from a "telecom tech").

    1. Re:Step in, to "Prof. FalconDOUCHE's" email class by Falconhell · · Score: 1

      Im just a trollin the troll!

      (To the tune of walking the dog)

  41. Your lectures are erroneous Prof. FalconDOUCHE lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm not ranting wildly. I am only quoting your "lectures" (lol, that must be from another parallel dimension or something, because your the facts are NOT meeting your statements eye to eye, "professor FalconDOUCHE":

    quote>"you do realise that there was no email in 1979 dont you? Oh of course being 10 you wouldnt" by Falconhell (1289630)
    on Wednesday April 28, @12:35AM (#32009320)

    Dimwit, there's been email systems since before ARPANET http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html ... utterly unbelievable: Here's a quote from said "HISTORY OF EMAIL":

    ***

    Email is much older than ARPANet or the Internet. It was never invented; it evolved from very simple beginnings.

    This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972

    ***

    LMAO, wait wait... it gets BETTER next, below (so "play it again, SAM"):

    "I qualified as a Telecommunications tech in 1979" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
    on Tuesday April 27, @11:42PM (#32008806)

    LMAO -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1619750&cid=32008590 see subject above, read url, and rinse-lather-repeat, falconDOUCHE... how stupid can you be? LOL, I bet you did that MERE TECHIE job on lol, telegraphs.

    I mean based on your dimwit reply in the url above, where you messed up on the fact that hotmail does give away your IP address, and where YOU called others names no less?? LMAO!

    (Man - Please, falconDOUCHE - do you think ANYONE believes that which I quote of you above, after reading the URL below it? LOL, not! LMAO... you can't even get email right (see url to anyone reading, lol), so you're far from a "telecom tech").

  42. HISTORY OF EMAIL by Prof. FalconDOUCHE (lmao) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    quote>"you do realise that there was no email in 1979 dont you? Oh of course being 10 you wouldnt" by Falconhell (1289630)
    on Wednesday April 28, @12:35AM (#32009320)

    Dimwit, there's been email systems since before ARPANET http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html ... utterly unbelievable: Here's a quote from said "HISTORY OF EMAIL":

    ***

    Email is much older than ARPANet or the Internet. It was never invented; it evolved from very simple beginnings.

    This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972

    ***

    LMAO, wait wait... it gets BETTER next, below (so "play it again, SAM"):

    "I qualified as a Telecommunications tech in 1979" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
    on Tuesday April 27, @11:42PM (#32008806)

    LMAO -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1619750&cid=32008590 see subject above, read url, and rinse-lather-repeat, falconDOUCHE... how stupid can you be? LOL, I bet you did that MERE TECHIE job on lol, telegraphs.

    I mean based on your dimwit reply in the url above, where you messed up on the fact that hotmail does give away your IP address, and where YOU called others names no less?? LMAO!

    (Man - Please, falconDOUCHE - do you think ANYONE believes that which I quote of you above, after reading the URL below it? LOL, not! LMAO... you can't even get email right (see url to anyone reading, lol), so you're far from a "telecom tech").

  43. Re:Your lectures are erroneous Prof. FalconDOUCHE by Falconhell · · Score: 1

    do you think ANYONE believes that which I quote of you above, after reading the URL below it?

    Frankly I doubt anyone but me is even bothering to read your copy pasta troll.

    I am but just so I can;

    "Troll the troll"

    (This time to the tune of Can the Can)

    Even the reception kids at my schools do netter at annoying me than you AC, all you have done so far is amuse greatly. With the reliable networks I supervise, Ihave nothing to do at work most pf the time.

    Please keep digging yourself deeper and deeper into incoherence it really is priceless!

  44. Fine, just DON'T tell anyone about email, LMAO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "you do realise that there was no email in 1979 dont you? Oh of course being 10 you wouldnt" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
    on Wednesday April 28, @12:35AM (#32009320)

    Dimwit, there's been email systems since before ARPANET http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html ... utterly unbelievable: Here's a quote from said "HISTORY OF EMAIL":

    ***

    Email is much older than ARPANet or the Internet. It was never invented; it evolved from very simple beginnings.

    This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972

    ***

    LMAO, wait wait... it gets BETTER next, below (so "play it again, SAM"):

    "I qualified as a Telecommunications tech in 1979" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
    on Tuesday April 27, @11:42PM (#32008806)

    LMAO -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1619750&cid=32008590 see subject above, read url, and rinse-lather-repeat, falconDOUCHE... how stupid can you be? LOL, I bet you did that MERE TECHIE job on lol, telegraphs.

    I mean based on your dimwit reply in the url above, where you messed up on the fact that hotmail does give away your IP address, and where YOU called others names no less?? LMAO!

    (Man - Please, falconDOUCHE - do you think ANYONE believes that which I quote of you above, after reading the URL below it? LOL, not! LMAO... you can't even get email right (see url to anyone reading, lol), so you're far from a "telecom tech").

    About "landing a blow"? Hell, I didn't even HAVE TO TAKE A SWING, lol... you KNOCKED YOURSELF RIGHT OUT with what's above, lmao!

    1. Re:Fine, just DON'T tell anyone about email, LMAO by Falconhell · · Score: 1

      I dont think anyone reads your copy pastas kindy boy. I only do for the humour-and so I can reply and waste as much of your time as possible, whilst collecting my pay-just doesnt get better!

      All the bold letters in the world dont mean that you have landed a blow, they just show your frustration that you can do nothing other than greatly amuse me!

  45. A tune about email, by "Prof. FalconDOUCHE" (LMAO) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "you do realise that there was no email in 1979 dont you? Oh of course being 10 you wouldnt" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
    on Wednesday April 28, @12:35AM (#32009320)

    Dimwit, there's been email systems since before ARPANET http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html ... utterly unbelievable: Here's a quote from said "HISTORY OF EMAIL":

    ***

    Email is much older than ARPANet or the Internet. It was never invented; it evolved from very simple beginnings.

    This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972

    ***

    LMAO, wait wait... it gets BETTER next, below (so "play it again, SAM"):

    "I qualified as a Telecommunications tech in 1979" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
    on Tuesday April 27, @11:42PM (#32008806)

    LMAO -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1619750&cid=32008590 see subject above, read url, and rinse-lather-repeat, falconDOUCHE... how stupid can you be? LOL, I bet you did that MERE TECHIE job on lol, telegraphs.

    I mean based on your dimwit reply in the url above, where you messed up on the fact that hotmail does give away your IP address, and where YOU called others names no less?? LMAO!

    (Man - Please, falconDOUCHE - do you think ANYONE believes that which I quote of you above, after reading the URL below it? LOL, not! LMAO... you can't even get email right (see url to anyone reading, lol), so you're far from a "telecom tech").

    About "landing a blow"? Hell, I didn't even HAVE TO TAKE A SWING, lol... you KNOCKED YOURSELF RIGHT OUT with what's above, lmao!

  46. I read it falconhell and you screwed up man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You're wrong on that account. I read what he wrote after he quoted you falconhell. You messed up large. I have to admit that his calling you "professor falcondouche" made me laugh hugely too. Sorry man, ordinarily I converse here with you quite often, but upon my finding out that you blew a bunch of mod points bothering others where you had no place being only makes me realize that you blew it for yourself in that regard, and certainly on your history of email, and what you overlooked about hotmail giving away its users IP addresses. Better luck next time. I'd post under my regular account here, as I have already, but you might downmod me because you've given the fact away that you do that kind of thing. Piece of advice: If you don't have anything good to say, then don't. You've already discredited yourself today with mistakes falcon, quit while you're behind. I've seen this ac troll in action and he'll get the best of you by making you angry and with your own mistakes and he never stops.

    1. Re:I read it falconhell and you screwed up man by Falconhell · · Score: 1

      I am impervious to this troll, (As I said i work with primary kids all the time, just water off a ducks back) there is nothing he has done or said that has done anything other than amuse me greatly.
      The longer he tries the funnier his thrashing around gets! He simply cannot make me angry.

      I thouigh that the idea of mod points was to improve the discussion, and modding spammers like this baby to the hidden zone is exactly the kind of thing it is for.

      A far as Hotmail is concerned, why should I worry if the IP address of my works proxy server, which covers 20,000 people is revealed? Gues who controls the IP logs, and mails from a printers static IP behinfd a router? It is all covered fine

        There was and is no way I can be personally connected to that account, so its no big deal

      My point in that post was to warn others that those who do have trackable IP should be cautious with their info at ElReg.

      Advice from Ac's is utterly irrelevant to me.

    2. Re:I read it falconhell and you screwed up man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "I am impervious to this troll" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
      on Wednesday April 28, @02:13AM (#32010322)

      Sure, but are you "impervious" to yourself is the question? Answer = NO, lol, because you DO YOURSELF IN as the person you replied to noted! Examples thereof are below, and YOU provided the "testimonial evidences" (lol, of your stupidity):

      "you do realise that there was no email in 1979 dont you? Oh of course being 10 you wouldnt" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
      on Wednesday April 28, @12:35AM (#32009320)

      Ahem: What dimension was that in EXACTLY? LMAO. Dimwit, there's been email systems since before ARPANET http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html ... utterly unbelievable: Here's a quote from said "HISTORY OF EMAIL":

      ***

      Email is much older than ARPANet or the Internet. It was never invented; it evolved from very simple beginnings.

      This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972

      ***

      LMAO, wait wait... it gets BETTER next, below (so "play it again, SAM"):

      "I qualified as a Telecommunications tech in 1979" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
      on Tuesday April 27, @11:42PM (#32008806)

      LMAO -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1619750&cid=32008590 see subject above, read url, and rinse-lather-repeat, falconDOUCHE... how stupid can you be? LOL, I bet you did that MERE TECHIE job on lol, telegraphs.

      I mean based on your dimwit reply in the url above, where you messed up on the fact that hotmail does give away your IP address, and where YOU called others names no less?? LMAO!

      (Man - Please, falconDOUCHE - do you think ANYONE believes that which I quote of you above, after reading the URL below it? LOL, not! LMAO... you can't even get email right (see url to anyone reading, lol), so you're far from a "telecom tech").

      "A far as Hotmail is concerned, why should I worry if the IP address of my works proxy server, which covers 20,000 people is revealed?" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
      on Wednesday April 28, @02:13AM (#32010322)

      Combined with this rather DUMB quote of yours here:

      "Ah yes hotmail got my IP, along with completely false registration info, thats gonna really hurt me!" - by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
      on Wednesday April 28, @01:35AM (#32009954)

      Hmmm, didn't you call others here malware makers or hackers today? Funny, but what you're doing is exactly what hacker/cracker types do. Pot calling the kettle black now, are we, "Professor FalconDOUCHE"??

      Piece of SOLID (and yes, actually friendly) advice - don't go advertising that you do hotmail like that for one thing, and secondly? With your IP address, I can "zero in" pretty much within 50-100 miles of your location. That's not much to worry about, but I can resolve who your hosting provider is, and with evidence like you stating you fake hotmails and such?? It's enough to put you on a tracking ticket. I know, I worked for one of the worlds LARGEST BSP's in 2003-2004 in their NOC, and know what happens, and it doesn't take much for that to occur (tracking tickets/surveillances of users).

      Now, since you claim to do that, and apparently from behind a corporate firewall? Clue #2: Your company has an ISP just like any other does, and they too can be surveilled as to "nefarious goings on" too, don't fool yourself that they cannot be. Once you pulled a dirty enough trick, they'd come down on your company to find out who YOU are (sometimes w/ the law, if what you're up to with those faked emails of yours are bad enough).

    3. Re:I read it falconhell and you screwed up man by Falconhell · · Score: 1

      Thanks for the concern, but its ALL covered nicely.

      The thing is the registration for hotmail was in 1995 and the now "false" info was true back then.

      I just like a degree of privacy, in fact I do no "dirty tricks" on the net, and so have nothing to fear.

      I do have the knowledge to do things like the printer thing, as a product of the need to maintain the security of my networks.

      Interesting that you would automatically think I would need to worry.

      Old BOFH friends in the ISP/NOC/Telecoms business are handy in terms of technical tips in such matters too.

      You could zoom in a lot closer by reading what I posted-it defines my location to miles.

      Its a pity you choose to spam/troll this way, there must be a backstory to all this eh?

      When you try you can put together a good paragraph or two!

      Ooodathunkit?

      The rest of you, sorry people I will STFU now. ):

  47. Re:A tune about email, by "Prof. FalconDOUCHE" (LM by Falconhell · · Score: 1

    A good troll could at least come up with a different response occasionally.

    You are slowly getting a bit more coherent though,

    Maybe in a few more posts you will actually struture a valid sentence in English.

    Its nice I can help improve your writing for you, but you need to work on originality.

  48. The "shaming of FalconDOUCHE" rotflmao by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "you do realise that there was no email in 1979 dont you? Oh of course being 10 you wouldnt" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
    on Wednesday April 28, @12:35AM (#32009320)

    Dimwit, there's been email systems since before ARPANET http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html ... utterly unbelievable: Here's a quote from said "HISTORY OF EMAIL":

    ***

    Email is much older than ARPANet or the Internet. It was never invented; it evolved from very simple beginnings.

    This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972

    ***

    LMAO, wait wait... it gets BETTER next, below (so "play it again, SAM"):

    "I qualified as a Telecommunications tech in 1979" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
    on Tuesday April 27, @11:42PM (#32008806)

    LMAO -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1619750&cid=32008590 see subject above, read url, and rinse-lather-repeat, falconDOUCHE... how stupid can you be? LOL, I bet you did that MERE TECHIE job on lol, telegraphs.

    I mean based on your dimwit reply in the url above, where you messed up on the fact that hotmail does give away your IP address, and where YOU called others names no less?? LMAO!

    (Man - Please, falconDOUCHE - do you think ANYONE believes that which I quote of you above, after reading the URL below it? LOL, not! LMAO... you can't even get email right (see url to anyone reading, lol), so you're far from a "telecom tech").

    About "landing a blow"? Hell, I didn't even HAVE TO TAKE A SWING, lol... you KNOCKED YOURSELF RIGHT OUT with what's above, lmao!

    1. Re:The "shaming of FalconDOUCHE" rotflmao by Falconhell · · Score: 1

      Oh yet another copy eh, boy you will really upset me by posting the same thing over and over!

      Come on try something new, I have got all the laughs I can get out of this one, we even made it almost comprehensible!

  49. At least you can laugh (at yourself, see inside) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You could read it all (oh, we KNOW you can, you're just trying to "play smart" again, only to look illiterate on YOUR part, lol... some "trade off" for trolling, eh?).

    Still, keep on "keepin' on" with your "hooked on phonics" lessons my boy - you may still make it to 1st grade reading levels yet!

    However - whatever you do? Please - do NOT go into teaching history (LOL, see next below):

    "you do realise that there was no email in 1979 dont you? Oh of course being 10 you wouldnt" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
    on Wednesday April 28, @12:35AM (#32009320)

    Dimwit, there's been email systems since before ARPANET http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html ... utterly unbelievable: Here's a quote from said "HISTORY OF EMAIL":

    ***

    Email is much older than ARPANet or the Internet. It was never invented; it evolved from very simple beginnings.

    This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972

    ***

    LMAO, wait wait... it gets BETTER next, below (so "play it again, SAM"):

    "I qualified as a Telecommunications tech in 1979" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
    on Tuesday April 27, @11:42PM (#32008806)

    LMAO -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1619750&cid=32008590 see subject above, read url, and rinse-lather-repeat, falconDOUCHE... how stupid can you be? LOL, I bet you did that MERE TECHIE job on lol, telegraphs.

    I mean based on your dimwit reply in the url above, where you messed up on the fact that hotmail does give away your IP address, and where YOU called others names no less?? LMAO!

    (Man - Please, falconDOUCHE - do you think ANYONE believes that which I quote of you above, after reading the URL below it? LOL, not! LMAO... you can't even get email right (see url to anyone reading, lol), so you're far from a "telecom tech").

  50. Oh boy, the troll's resorting to "english grammar" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    LOL, oldest and weakest troll trick in the book. Funny others read what is below and understood it well enough. In fact, here was their feedback on your "fine performance" today, "Professor FalconDOUCHE" (lol):

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1626938&cid=32010110

    READ 'EM & WEEP above... so much for your "trolling tactics" (poor, & WEAK).

    Besides, with you around, and your "erroneous history of email" (next below) AND your screwup on hotmail below it (after your "grandiose claim" of being a "telecom tech" (not, no way))? Who NEEDS anymore than your "Original CLASSICS" (lmao)... here we go:

    "you do realise that there was no email in 1979 dont you? Oh of course being 10 you wouldnt" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
    on Wednesday April 28, @12:35AM (#32009320)

    Dimwit, there's been email systems since before ARPANET http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html ... utterly unbelievable: Here's a quote from said "HISTORY OF EMAIL":

    ***

    Email is much older than ARPANet or the Internet. It was never invented; it evolved from very simple beginnings.

    This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972

    ***

    LMAO, wait wait... it gets BETTER next, below (so "play it again, SAM"):

    "I qualified as a Telecommunications tech in 1979" by FalconDOUCHE (1289630)
    on Tuesday April 27, @11:42PM (#32008806)

    LMAO -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1619750&cid=32008590 see subject above, read url, and rinse-lather-repeat, falconDOUCHE... how stupid can you be? LOL, I bet you did that MERE TECHIE job on lol, telegraphs.

    I mean based on your dimwit reply in the url above, where you messed up on the fact that hotmail does give away your IP address, and where YOU called others names no less?? LMAO!

    (Man - Please, falconDOUCHE - do you think ANYONE believes that which I quote of you above, after reading the URL below it? LOL, not! LMAO... you can't even get email right (see url to anyone reading, lol), so you're far from a "telecom tech").

  51. Well, you don't give up easy (I can respect THAT) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ok, time to cut the crap out (in trolling) - I really didn't want to do that to you man, but that clone jerk is messing with me, so when you began modding down my posts (which only tell the truth vs. that fool's utter b.s.)? I took it as an attack on myself (what else could I perceive it as, for Pete's sake?).

    "Thanks for the concern, but its ALL covered nicely.

    The thing is the registration for hotmail was in 1995 and the now "false" info was true back then.

    I just like a degree of privacy, in fact I do no "dirty tricks" on the net, and so have nothing to fear.

    I do have the knowledge to do things like the printer thing, as a product of the need to maintain the security of my networks.

    Interesting that you would automatically think I would need to worry." - by Falconhell (1289630)
    on Wednesday April 28, @03:55AM (#32011010)

    Heh, online today? ALWAYS worry. Especially about what YOU say yourself, because it CAN "bite you in the butt" later (we've all been there, no need to go into it, I trust you caught my drift on that note).

    "Old BOFH friends in the ISP/NOC/Telecoms business are handy in terms of technical tips in such matters too.

    You could zoom in a lot closer by reading what I posted-it defines my location to miles." - by Falconhell (1289630)
    on Wednesday April 28, @03:55AM (#32011010)

    Heh, I really wasn't out to "hack/crack" you etc., only to tell you to watch it with some of the stuff you stated publicly was all (ala emails being used for no real purpose, & that you filled them with b.s. data). I am not out to adversely affect you, no joke. I only perceived your down moderations as a direct attack on myself (I would have respected them more actually, IF you came out & said "This is why you were down modded" rather than just doing it & disappearing (which, eventually, you did @ least "tip your hand" & post your registered username here @ least, eventually, albeit AFTER you "burnt" all your mod points on "lil' ole me", lol! I'm honored... not!

    ANYHOW/ANYWAYS:

    "Its a pity you choose to spam/troll this way, there must be a backstory to all this eh?" - by Falconhell (1289630)
    on Wednesday April 28, @03:55AM (#32011010)

    Clone53421 says it all in his libel of myself & others on this website, nuff said on that account.

    "When you try you can put together a good paragraph or two!" - by Falconhell (1289630)
    on Wednesday April 28, @03:55AM (#32011010)

    Man, lol, off-topic and definitely "trollish" in that comment on your part now? Well, you too made your share of grammatical & spelling errors (scred ring a bell?) & mine? Mine are more just a diff. writing style than most here use is all... still, in the interests of peace?

    I'll overlook it but don't mistake it for "wussing out" etc. et al, because if I had to, this would NEVER end (been there, done that, took almost a year to back one dork off, but eventually it happened)...

    So even though you down-modded the hell out of many of my posts, I did so with reason (Clone's lies & libel). If someone were to do that to you, you'd be slightly perturbed by it most likely as well (libel that is), so... put yourself in MY shoes on this one, & try to understand is all.

    Personally, you don't seem like all that bad of a guy, but... well, time to leave this one be is all, as I have things to do (work) coming up soon, so... nice meeting you, too bad it was on such bad notes is all.