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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.'"
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.
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".
[Fuck Beta]
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