HomePNA Achieves 320Mbps With Copper

illeism writes "Ars Techinca is reporting that the HPNA has made a significant stride in copper speed. From the article: 'The HomePNA Alliance, backers of a networking spec that works over coaxial or twisted pair wiring, has announced the release of the HPNA 3.1 specification. The big news comes in the form of a speed jump from 128Mbps to 320Mbps, which pushes it above competing networking standards HomePlug AV and MoCA (Multimedia over Coax) for the title of fastest networking tech outside of gigabit Ethernet and makes it a more attractive option for triple-play providers.'"

But whats the latency?

[Kenja]

In my experience with such networks, its not the transfer speed but the response time that makes you want to chew your keyboard.

New Service in my Area

[superpulpsicle]

320Mbps over coax!

319Mbps download and 1Mbps upload for $99.99 per month.

Re:What?

[tearmeapart]

What's wrong with my 10 gigabit ethernet? ( via my Intel PCI Express 10GbE CX4 [intel.com] cards).

Re:GigE works fine over Cat5E wiring

[Heembo]

Are you new here? This is slashdot. I was required to have at LEAST a cat5e 5 user network in my house with a linux router (that I installed myself) running on a 486 or less before I was allowed to sign up!

Re:All about the coax

[Anonymous Coward]

The pornographic implications of broadcast from anywhere on cable tv at a college are awesome.