Researchers See Gigabit Data Over Power Lines
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Engineers at Penn State University said on Wednesday they had found a way for power lines to transmit data to homes at rates far faster than high-speed Internet connections from cable and telephone companies.
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If there's more, we'll take more Column It does seem to be a rule of data processing that we use all we can get of it. As BT starts to test its 21st century networking (21CN) with partners like Entanet, it's a safe bet that this rule will mean the dream of universal high speed data will turn sour as people try to squeeze more data through a limited pipe.â¦
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Number of users with high-speed connections has tripled in the last three years.
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As traffic increases, experts say ISPs may start charging by the gigabyte, limiting use of some services and snooping at the data passing through their networks.
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Alternative to glass and copper appears in a POF of light Siemens researchers have demonstrated a data rate of 1Gbit/s over plastic optical fibre, a speed ten times higher than is possible with current products.â¦
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BOXBOROUGH -- Design engineer Alan Lear has rolled up his sleeves. His lab is crammed with motherboards and oscilloscopes. He scans a screen showing the signal quality of the transmission between a pair of Advanced Micro Devices' prototype chips.
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New technologies wirelessly transmit high-definition video.
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An Associated Press reporter ran a test of two computers connected to the Internet with Comcast cable modems in Philadelphia and San Francisco, in order to see if reports of the cable provider blocking file sharing programs were true.
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HomePlug Powerline Alliance members show off first products based on HomePlug AV 200-mbps power-line networking standard.
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A 100Gbps internet link has been established between the east and west coasts of the US for the first time.   The Internet2 project is capable of carrying information 100,000 times faster than the fastest current home network.  (c) 2007 Sunday Mirror; London.
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A new high-speed, IP-based network will connect more than 1,000 domestic locations and tens of thousand of users in the US and overseas.
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Having an always-on, fast net connection is changing the way Britons use the internet, research suggests.
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The display offers information like a download and upload "speedometer" and network bandwidth usage.
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The NYT has an optimistic overview on broadband over power lines, calling it "the ultimate plug and play." [Broadband Blog]
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Researchers say large numbers of wireless routers could be susceptible to a piggyback attack in dense urban areas.
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More phone and cable companies promise high-speed Internet access, but how is a consumer to know?
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Capable of zapping data many times faster than the common home networking technology, ultrawideband is moving closer to commercial reality. Now there's just that pesky fight over standards to resolve.