Nokia pushes DSL speeds to 825Mbps

It will be 80 years before we see anything like that in New Zealand, we are already behind and the govt refuses to increase fibre optic to nearest continent, so we'll be sitting here with our lovely 6.5mb/s (even Kazakstan has a higher average download speed) while the rest of the world streaks ahead...

No, its how it operates. Cable is a single Coax cable. it has to do with the frequency and channel spacing. But 500meters? This is almost worthless. Unless your sitting right on top of the branch office you would get nothing...

From where Im from, 6Mbps is already expensive. And sometimes you don't even get what you pay for. 1Gbps.. one can just imagine the power you wield when you have this.

I hope this technology hits mainstream usage soon... at&t has already started using pair bonding in my town for their uverse hybrid fiber/copper FTTN IPTV technology to supposedly almost double their range from the VRAD to the copper "last mile" to the home but even with that extension of range I am still too far to qualify for the service. Sigh... time warner cable service is craptacular in my area for both video and internet service so I am forced to putter along at about 2.6 mbps and getting robbed monthly by directv. Hell, I would kill for at least 6 mbps so anything else above that is just gravy.

I just found out Shaw internet. in a few citys in canada are testing out 1 Gigabit internet. OMFG Dam i figerd the 100 mbps they have in my area was fast..

The article you are talking about can be found here: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/11/05/1194117915862.html

They state that the researcher could make the internet "100 times faster." My guess is that this would be only over a very short distance...possibly the research we are looking at here is taken directly from this Aussie bloke?

pushing this technology to this level is good and all, but in my opinion, it's gonna be hard do to sustain. i mean, 400meters is kind of small for commercial usage and it will need a lot of these virtual channels. i wonder if doing that will be expensive. if so, it will kinda be defeating the purpose of pursuing further development of this technology. i think we should move to the next best thing which is fiber optics. well, that's just me. haha

400 meters is a waste since the speed will drop the more far the distance is.
But maybe they'll make it better in development, we really need that over here

Yes, this is very impressive but we as a nation are way behind other countries in terms of pure speed. I wish the old douches in Washington realize that they need to wake up from the Reagan era and move forward to an era where technology and science will drive this nation. Instead, they are stuck playing pass the crap to the next generations while getting their fill of social security and medicare. I wish they would wake up and spend money on something worthwhile such as improving broadband accessibility.

I agree, they should focus on fiber optics technology much more instead of developing more effective DSL based on copper wiring. Go into the future not into the past

Do you want to know the speed of my Internet connection? You'll be laughing at me... cause it is a damn good joke ¬¬

The 'improvement on the distance isn't that big but if they can keep doing it then cool, and what does DSL mean anyways?

I had DSL broadband once(Wanadoo, very reliable I thought =/) back when I used to share the internet 2 ways through two USB modems, I only got about 1.1mbps but the very embaressing thing is... right now I only get about 0.4mbps with regular ethernet broadband(Sky s***band).

very nice but i think that the price coud be a problem

500 meter is too short in most cities

500 meter to the phone/dsl company is way too short

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825Mbps is VERY much .... even on fiber most ISP's do not have data plans even near that fast. Lets just hope implementation of this technology on IPS's end do not require much investment. I could use speed boost on my DSL, since fiber is not an option for me

The government should take the money they're supposedly putting back into the country from lottery sales into putting down fiberoptic cables to majors cities.

Most providers would just love to pull on DSL, hope this can work in real world situations...

I'm all for faster speeds but I'd really like to see some progress towards making it cheaper. Our cable provider offers two plans. One at 1.5mb and the other at 12mb. Nothing in between. I'd be happy with say 5mb at a price point in between the two.

No doubt even with this new technology we still won't get what we pay for

I am happy about anything that looks at increasing the speeds across DSL lines, as that is considered legacy technology. Even though the 825Mb is only for 400 meters, at normal distances from the phone box, that is still going to be faster than the 25Mb currently offered as max speed by my provider.

People need to be more positive about technology moving forward. It might not be perfect but it is a step in the right direction. Don't forget it was only a little over 100 years ago that cars were slower than horses, until the technology got further development.