• Bell Labs claims net speed record
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[quote]It suggested the tech could eventually be adapted to offer 1 Gbps in real-world uses.[/quote] Buuuut it won't because it might cost a few dollars to install, and the ISPs want to keep the billions in tax breaks rather than use it for its intended purpose. Furthermore, they'll just slap a 250Gb cap on you. Here, download at 1 Gb/s, Oh look, you just hit your cap in 15 minutes. That'll be $10 for another 50Gb please, this bandwidth is finite ya know
This is kinda unreliable though compared to fiber optic; it's pretty unreasonable to install this due to range restraints
[quote]In order to get any of these speeds you would need to be close enough to your exchange - or fibre optic cable connected to it - that you could pretty much throw a stone at it from your door."[/quote] so for this to work where its most needed, it would still need more fiber than copper : / keep at it men, we shall overcome and appease our ISP hyperlords
1000ft of fiber optic costs around $60, maybe one day we'll find an alternative, but for now we have to stick to $200 per 1000ft of coax
layman: Instead of spending money to constantly upgrade wiring once upgraded to fiber optic you can upgrade to the faster transceivers instead of upgrading the entire infrastructure
The big thing here is this [quote]30m (98.4ft)-long standard phone cables[/quote] distance makes a HUGE difference, and no one is 100 feet away from where you first are able to get internet using home equipment, meaning those green or maybe grey boxes you see outside, at least with FTTN Yes it will be far cheaper then running FTTP or FTTN everywhere, but it wont get nearly those speeds
To be fair, this is great news for those out in the country with existing infrastructure. However, despite the obvious demand for fiber in urban regions, it stands that it should eventually rival copper in terms of coverage. Side note: Line loss will still need to be considered here, they only used 30m of copper, not 30km out to the rural sectors of civilization. Probably an order of magnitude lower would be more realistic.
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