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Ordinary Copper Telephone Wire Could Carry Gigabit Broadband Speeds
Fibre-optic cable is being laid across the globe at great expense to speed up people's internet connections, but researchers claim that the copper telephone wire already in use across the country can achieve data rates three times higher than currently seen at a fraction of the price, at least over short distances. New Scientist: Their tech ... ⌘ Read more
@prologic lmao. can you imagine all of the it workers out there sweating while blowing copper through conduit? they've already done it with glass and approximately 60% of the fibre is still dark.
this reminds me of the days when we mux'd d-channels on copper and had to sit in the icey dc's fvcking with stinger/dslam
I mean I'd love to meet the researchers that even _think_ that you can do realistic and reliable Gbpg throughput over Copper. Seriously. what the actual fuck. Not only can you only do it over short distances (d'uh, it's called Cat5/Cat6 e) but if you go beyond longer the fucking Copper the higher the resistance. Eventually you reach a point where even if you do fancy shit like multiplexing the DSL frequencies at some point you're going to run into noise and boom, your connection is dead.
Seriously. Stop fucking wasting time with Copper.
I mean I'd love to meet the researchers that even _think_ that you can do realistic and reliable Gbpg throughput over Copper. Seriously. what the actual fuck. Not only can you only do it over short distances (d'uh, it's called Cat5/Cat6 e) but if you go beyond longer the fucking Copper the higher the resistance. Eventually you reach a point where even if you do fancy shit like multiplexing the DSL frequencies at some point you're going to run into noise and boom, your connection is dead.
Seriously. Stop fucking wasting time with Copper.