A Melbourne University PhD student has developed technology to make broadband internet up to 200 times faster without having to install expensive fibre optic cables. 250Mb/s ADSL would be nice.
A Melbourne University PhD student has developed technology to make broadband internet up to 200 times faster without having to install expensive fibre optic cables. 250Mb/s ADSL would be nice.
Ooh, sounds good. Hopefully it’ll work for the undersea links to America too. This will also come in handy when neither of the political parties’ fibre plans make it past the new year.
From what I understand this would have no effect on the undersea cable (which I believe is a straight connection between continents) as it basically removes crosstalk between ADSL connections on common phone lines. I truly hope the trans-Pacific cable doesn’t work the same way as the local telephone lines!
Yeah, good point. I didn’t think that one through; the main links are all optical fibre.
Since this topic seemed to generate a bit of discussion, and I was a bit dubious as to how this magic 200x was possible, here’s a link to John’s site which has a FAQ on the issue.
From what I understand by that it doesn’t really make anything faster, it’s mostly about allowing the actual transfer speeds to get closer to their theoretical limits. So if you’re on ADSL2+ then you’ll get closer to that 24Mbps - you won’t get 250MBps!