Aussie Claims Copper Broadband now 200x Faster 208
SkiifGeek writes "Winner of Melbourne University's Chancellor's Prize for Excellence, Dr John Papandriopoulos could soon find himself the focus of a number of networking companies and government agencies interested in wringing more performance from existing network infrastructure. Dr John developed a set of algorithms (US and Aussie patents pending) that reduce the impact of cross talk on data streams sharing the same physical copper line, taking less than a year to achieve the breakthrough. It is claimed that the algorithms can produce up to 200x improvement over existing copper broadband performance (quoted as being between one and 25 mbit/sec), with up to 200 mbit/sec apparently being deliverable. If the mathematical theories are within even an order of magnitude of the actual gains achieved, Dr John's work is likely to have widespread implications for future bandwidth availability across the globe."
Finally! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:200x??? Hardly... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:200 mbit/sec (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Finally! (Score:5, Funny)
Fast Forward to Slashdot 2009 (Score:3, Funny)
Geek Post Comments: I can't believe Comcast! They promised me an unlimited 200mbit connection and all I am getting is 60mbit! I want what I paid for, who cares how fast my connection was 3 years ago! I demand my 200mbit connection, and at $50 per month!11!
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Re:200 mbit/sec (Score:3, Funny)
I kid, please don't bite
Re:Obligatory ... (Score:5, Funny)
0 = one bit
( = half a bit
1 = one bit
' = half a bit
You need to use an appropriate font, obviously.
I don't know what you people would do without me to solve these little problems for you.
Re:Trans-Oceanic Latency (Score:3, Funny)
Re:John's actually a pretty cool dude (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Metaphor please (Score:5, Funny)
Well, if you're using like, then it's actually a simile.
That being said, I think the appropriate metaphor for your post would be "flogging a dead horse".
Re:Finally! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Metaphor please (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Metaphor please (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Finally! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Metaphor please (Score:3, Funny)
You have many tubes going one way, with the internet flowing through them. If one fills up (it's not a truck!) then it spills over into one of the other tubes, or sometimes if a similar amount of internet is flowing in two tubes that are next to eachother then they spill over randomly.
Now, cross-tube-spill makes for slow internet--more so than an email from your coworker--and this guy here figured out how to send the internet through the tubes in such a way that there is no spill over, and the tubes never get full, and that allows him to send more internet through the tubes at a faster rate.
There. Happy?
Re:I hate "UP TO"... (Score:2, Funny)
So, it would be safe to say you've had it "up to here" with the phrase...?
Re:Finally! (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah Right.