Aussie develops technology to take DSL to 250Mbps – Engadget — Yeah, sure. I’m waiting.
Reportedly, University of Melbourne’s Dr. John Papandriopoulos has patented his SCALE and SCAPE methods for “dramatically reducing the interference which slows down data transmission in typical DSL networks.” ‘Course, the tidbit you’re interested in comes when we find that these techniques can potentially deliver speeds of up to 250-megabits per second through existing telecommunications networks.
found by Aric Mackey
“Operational System Changes” for providers. Words of death.
A showstopper for any provider in the US definitely. “Why make changes to our system, when we are giving them what we feel like providing and not listening to their complaints?” Though I’m sure the DSL modem manufacturers are drooling at the potential new revenue.
Now he’d have a definite hit if it was a firmware upgrade.
Cripes. Over-the-counter DSL providers in other countries often start at 12-20mbps. The sleazy Telco in my neck of the woods offers me 1.25mbps – tops.
The biggest interference to getting faster DSL where I live is the telco preserving its lucrative T1/T3 service, so I got fiber from my electric company’s ISP department. It has six times the speed of a T1 for 1/10th the price of 6 T1’s. It’s 8 Mbps by 8 Mbps offered by brmemc.net (it says 8 Mbps but I actually get 9). The only competitor, Windstream, charges $400 per month per T1 line, or $2400 for a bundle of 6. When the local cable company geared up to introduce broadband over cable, Windstream (then Alltel) bought the cable company and killed their broadband before it could be deployed. When I called Windstream to cancel my DSL, the CSR told me right up front that they would never have faster DSL because they didn’t want to undermine their leased line business.
Ummm…it’s not just the max speed but also the distance from the Telco Central Office that the xDSL technology will support. I want to see how far that 250Mbps will carry before significant attenuation (signal loss) occurs. It had better be at least 2-3 miles for it to be a serious contender to ADSL, HDSL, and SDSL technologies.
Split between 500 users that gives you a healthy 500Kbps
But it’s unfeasable to achieve that speed with a country the size of the USA, sure Australia is BARELY smaller and it’s population is MORE dispersed than in the US, but still that will be the lame excuse on why not increase the bandwidth.