Broaderband

Article: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/25/devolo_readies_400mbps_powerline/

"Powerline networking specialist Devolo will next month demo an Ethernet-over-the-mains prototype capable of delivering up to 400Mb/s bandwidth."

"By pairing the 200Mb/s adaptors, Devolo essentially doubles the available bandwidth. Just as 200Mb/s powerline Ethernet doesn't deliver that perfect-world throughoput, so the 400Mb/s units only deliver real-world speeds of up to 180Mb/s, Devolo admitted."

"But that's still double what at 200Mb/s unit can provide and sufficient, the company claimed, for five HD video streams to be routed over the network simultaneously."

This is fantastic news really. My max download now is about 750kb/s, with this technology I could reach speeds of up to 184320 kb/s.

I know the UK have planned to install a new internet infrastructure, but I hope they develop the newest technology, rather than the existing ones of 100 Mb/s already used in several countries including Japan and the US. The infrastructure was planned to be completed around 2020, but by that time it will already be out of date. It is quite amazing finding out just how far behind the UK are on the technology front.

Although the current speeds are more than we need for browsing, it is downloading / uploading that is the problem at the moment. This however does encourage the use of P2P, yet another contradiction of our government on the subject.

But hey, who's complaining?