Fastest ever broadband

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 5:32 pm

The "fastest ever" broadband speeds have been achieved in a test in London, raising hopes of more efficient data transfer via existing infrastructure.

Alcatel-Lucent and BT said speeds of 1.4 terabits per second were achieved during their joint test - enough to send 44 uncompressed HD films a second.

The test was conducted on a 410km (255-mile) link between the BT Tower in central London and Ipswich

So there is more to come................on the same old infrastructure.

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:38 pm

I remember when I get a 4800 baud modem. I thought that was fast.

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 8:21 am

To think there are still a few people about, still on dial up. My first attempts at downloading music tracks back in 2001 was woefully slow on a p2p site (assuming the uploader hadn't logged off).

How things have moved on. 44 HD films a second is sci-fi stuff

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 9:47 am

However, it may be many years before consumers notice any effect.

Even so, on the same old cables ?

How did we manage without it?

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 10:08 am

You're right. To achieve that level of speed using the existing cabling system is truly amazing.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 1:35 pm

Wandrin;1449515 wrote: I remember when I get a 4800 baud modem. I thought that was fast.

300 baud up and 1200 down - it was magnificent

I presume the 1.4Tb was for the backbone, not the home link

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 1:56 pm

Bryn Mawr;1449542 wrote: 300 baud up and 1200 down - it was magnificent

I presume the 1.4Tb was for the backbone, not the home link

Yeah, that makes more sense. One can hope, but then that nasty reality creeps back in...

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 2:18 pm

HUH!!!! I don't even get internet anymore and where I live forget about any broadband at all, it stops six kilometres down the road.

I have to go a friends house to use their PC. And forget about satalite it's full, another wont be available until December next year. and it's too expensive anyway.

This is going to have a devastating effect on rental and property markets, if there's no internet people just won't take on those properties.

and forget about complaining about it..... Our government has just passed a new law................

https://newmatilda.com/2014/01/21/victo ... ket-rights

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 2:39 pm

fuzzywuzzy;1449547 wrote: HUH!!!! I don't even get internet anymore and where I live forget about any broadband at all, it stops six kilometres down the road.

I have to go a friends house to use their PC. And forget about satalite it's full, another wont be available until December next year. and it's too expensive anyway.

This is going to have a devastating effect on rental and property markets, if there's no internet people just won't take on those properties.

and forget about complaining about it..... Our government has just passed a new law................

https://newmatilda.com/2014/01/21/victo ... ket-rights

That is way out of order - the removal of the right to protest is the first step in the removal of all freedoms.

The answer is simple, if you have the stomach for it - fill the prisons. Give them so many arrests they cannot cope with it - if they resort to fines instead then refuse to pay until they do jail you and the system cannot cope.

Gandhi showed us the way, Civil Disobedience - no threat of violence or any suggestion of it, just refuse to accept their rules and do the minimum that breaks the law but do it very publicly.

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 6:40 pm

There's already a 'March in March' protest about to happen. (I'm going to it) Demanding our government resigns.......and yes there are reasons for it . Broadband is one of them. The asylum seeker issue, Carbon tax, our Prime ministers' embarrassing speeches and support for weirdo governments. Just yesterday he made the statement "loggers are our most ultimate conservationists" .......WTF? The last government cut the single parent pension.....this government is giving women in higher payed jobs $75,000 pay out to go home and breed. That's why the new law. ....................The internet is only the beginning the list goes on and people are mighty pissed off. Even the Murdoch press is pissed, now that's got to tell you something. If you cut off large chunks of the population to information and business you eventually breed ignorance. We've seen this before in QLD eventually they became the laughing stock of the nation.