100% faster internet? Prepare yourself

By Peter Csorba, in WorldWideWeb, posted: 13-Nov-2007 21:13

I just saw in the telly that a young Austalian genius (well, he said he is not genius just lucky) from Melbourne invented a new algorithm, which will make ADSL broadband connections 100% faster.

He is currently moving to the Silicon Valley, California to take a new job. John Cioffi "the father of DSL" has offered him a postion in his company to develop his idea further alongst other inventions.

The idea came up under the shower as he said (or as the media said), but it's not an accident.
He is Dr. John Papandriopoulos a 29-year-old PhD student from University of Melbourne, a researcher. He has already applied for two patents relating to his discovery.

At the moment the electromagnetic interference is the biggest threat to the ADSL speed.
Basically the new algorithm will minimise the interference on the copper line thus will increase the speed, which could be around 100Mbps.

After that what can I say: take minimum two showers per day buddy and bring the faster internet to the people!

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Comment by STI, on 13-Nov-2007 22:34 , user id: 11175)

I wonder how feasible this is. When the article say electromagnetic interference is significant in ADSL, I assume that is due to crosstalk in the copper lines. The future of broadband is in fiber, which eventually connect every home to the exchange (FTTH). Probably a good solution for NZ since that is a long time away.

Comment by paradoxsm, on 13-Nov-2007 23:12 , user id: 8664)

I did some experimentations with sending specific freqencies down huge traces of bad copper wires and getting it's exact half harmonic and then leaving it sitting there as a resonator while I bandpassed that particular frequency and shoved other frequencies down it... It seemed to work very well but thought it was dead-end technology. Then I got bored and built a tesla tweeter.

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Peter Csorba
Sydney
Australia

In my private life I am a non-professional websurfer.
I am living in Sydney at the moment as I had to relocate in June '08 because of my work.
Shame on me, I know.

In my professional life I am working for a big international mobile company in the Network Implementation area.

Some "geeky things" we have at home:
IBM T61 laptop
Sony Vaio SZ laptop
iPod Nano 1GB
iPhone 3G
Nokia N95-1
Nokia 6500 classic
Nokia N770 Internet Tablet
Esky Lama v4 4ch eletric helicopter :)

Games I play:
Call of Duty 4
Enemy Territory: RTCW
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

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