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CardJoe · 31st Dec 2007, 13:46

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/12...te_broadband/1

The networking division of mobile phone giant Nokia has announced trials of a wireless technology capable of transferring data to mobiles at 173Mb/s.

Delphium · 31st Dec 2007, 13:52

Sweeeeet now to drop my BT line that is there for nothing more than the ADSL, sounds perfect for laptop use

DeX · 31st Dec 2007, 14:38

Hang on, how is it they are able to get 173Mbit/s wirelessly when they can only get 100Mbit/s through a fibre optic cable? If mobile internet saves us the cost of a £15bn fibre infrastructure then I'm all for it. Something makes me suspect though that Nokia are not predicting this network's use by home broadband users.

samkiller42 · 31st Dec 2007, 14:46

Optics can send more than 100mb down it, well, it did when i looked at it at college.
This is definatley impressive speeds. I WANT!!

SAm

Delphium · 31st Dec 2007, 15:02

Indeed Optics usually run at 1/10/40gbps speeds.
However 100mbit is a danm nice speed, and without the need for FTTH it looks promising.

Dev25 · 31st Dec 2007, 16:29

Come on High speed boradband in the Uk Catch up to the BB speeds of like japan etc (Doubt they will but you can always dream)

chrisb2e9 · 31st Dec 2007, 16:48

cant wait for this to come to canada in 30 years or so. the fastest i can get where i live is still a whopping 3mbit.

DeX · 31st Dec 2007, 17:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by samkiller42

Optics can send more than 100mb down it, well, it did when i looked at it at college.
This is definatley impressive speeds. I WANT!!

SAm

Yes of course but I'm talking about home broadband. When you divide 40Gbps between millions of users then you're not left with very much. I'm saying I'd be surprised if Nokia are expecting a speed of 173Mbps when thousands of users are on a single base station or when there are millions of users on the system nationwide. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what kind of performance we get in the 'real' real world.

p3n · 31st Dec 2007, 18:53

All well and good but the latency/security issues will keep me from ever using such a connection to the internet, also 1km is all that far, especially moving at 30 mph

MiNiMaL_FuSS · 31st Dec 2007, 19:22

still cant get more than 2mb in a hell of alot of the country due to distance form the nearest exchange....

DXR_13KE · 31st Dec 2007, 20:11

this is going to be very expensive....

outlawaol · 1st Jan 2008, 00:27

Well, lets see.. I pay 15 cents to send a text msg, or to receive one.

So....
an average txt msg is about 84 bytes
I can send 12 msg's per KB
I can also send up to 12,288 msg's per MB
Or I can send 12,582,912 per GB

Lets see... if they use the same fee's as a txt msg, they will be rich! Exactly $1843.20 Per MB. One more reason nickle and dimeing everyone is such a huge thing with these cell carries. Imagine that a cell company charges you per MB for content you dont even control (Like your own MP3's, movies, ect) Then also charging you to actually buy them from them ONLY for your phone. Need I go on?

rhuitron · 1st Jan 2008, 11:01

Well.
I am very impressed by this and will look forward to it.

But unfortunately, I live in some foothills of Northern California, And nobody (Providers) even have 3g towers up here.
It really blows.
Once I get to the metropolitan area about 20 miles away, I can get on it with my N75. But we are so freaking behind it is not even funny.
Like i say, I cant even get more than 350 kbps where I am at. ***********hold on***********

Yup, I did a speedtest.net test, and for some odd-ass reason I appear to be in Miami Florida, and get only 300kbps dwn and 100 up.

So I hope guys enjoy it over there, Because I dont see it coming over here anytime soon.
Hell, the last cellphone to come out from Cingular was the Nokia N75.

liratheal · 1st Jan 2008, 11:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dev25

Come on High speed boradband in the Uk Catch up to the BB speeds of like japan etc (Doubt they will but you can always dream)

Us here in the UK are going to be waiting a long time before we catch up to the likes of Korea/Japan etc.

Korea especially have the space under ground to lay masses of fibre, we as we have trouble keeping our drains unblocked.

I doubt, short of massive spending on order from OFCOM or something similar, UK is ever going to reach the same standard as some countries.

We're good at getting stiffed over things we should be able to do/have.

Cupboard · 1st Jan 2008, 13:22

I don't think there government is going to be investing much in fiber in the next few years, most of their spare cash is going into the Olympics (they are even cutting arts councils funding etc for that, its ridiculous)

Skill3d · 1st Jan 2008, 21:56

will this boil my eggs faster than using a pan?

hawky84 · 2nd Jan 2008, 14:22

Well I'm currently getting 170Kbps at best through my Virgin ADSL connection which is suppose to be up to 8Mbps, I get kicked out of so many CSS games 'cause of my ping rate that I gave up playing! Doesn't look like cable of fibre is coming to my road anytime soon so I hope WiMAX or LTE come out soon, anything is better than what I have at the moment. Although I still think this is a fair few years off as I was looking at 806.11a back in 2005 at Uni and they are on 806.11e now and still not even out of small localized testing.

Nokia should win the battle if LTE can work on the current infrastructure, I mean appart from being able to get to market faster than WiMAX they wont have to deal with the parents screaming about "not another wireless mast transmitting killer rays, think of the children think of the children!!!"

tibtib123 · 19th Jun 2009, 14:44

I definitely think that in a few years <a style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"http://www.three.co.uk/Mobile_Broadband" target="_blank">mobile broadband</a> will take over as the main form of internet connection around the world - with Wi Max seemingly taking over Africa it cant be long before we have a decent system here?

Ghys · 19th Jun 2009, 14:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrisb2e9

cant wait for this to come to canada in 30 years or so. the fastest i can get where i live is still a whopping 3mbit.

a camp in northern alberta doesn't count

(are you even still there

)

It's true however that our ISPs here suck

31st Dec 2007, 13:46	#1
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31st Dec 2007, 14:38	#3
DeX Mube Codder Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 4,103	Hang on, how is it they are able to get 173Mbit/s wirelessly when they can only get 100Mbit/s through a fibre optic cable? If mobile internet saves us the cost of a £15bn fibre infrastructure then I'm all for it. Something makes me suspect though that Nokia are not predicting this network's use by home broadband users. __________________ Play my game: Shyguy's Cave of Death! If you dont have the time to check your spelling and grammar, you dont have the time to post! -Liquid K9

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31st Dec 2007, 15:02	#5
Delphium You there computer man fix my pants Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: on teh interwebz Posts: 1,254	Indeed Optics usually run at 1/10/40gbps speeds. However 100mbit is a danm nice speed, and without the need for FTTH it looks promising. __________________ \| Asus P5N32-E SLI \| Q6600 G0 @3.0ghz Watercooled \| 8GB Corsair Dominator PC8500 @1066mhz 5-5-5-15 2T \| XFX GTX285 \| BFG 8800GTS \| XFX 9600GT \| 1x 128GB Crucial M225 SSD \| 5x 500GB Seagate SATA-II \| BFG 800W SLI PSU \| Creative X-Fi Music \| Logitech Z-5500 5.1ch speakers \| 3x Dell S2209W 22"wide TFT's (5760x1080res) \| 1x Panasonic 42"Plasma \| All working on Win7 Ultimate x64 \|

31st Dec 2007, 16:29	#6
Dev25 Multimodder Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: London Posts: 116	Come on High speed boradband in the Uk Catch up to the BB speeds of like japan etc (Doubt they will but you can always dream)

31st Dec 2007, 16:48	#7
chrisb2e9 Dont do that... Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Alberta, Canada Posts: 3,068	cant wait for this to come to canada in 30 years or so. the fastest i can get where i live is still a whopping 3mbit. __________________ attack life, it's going to kill you anyway. Long-term relationships are like urban tomatoes: they only grow under special conditions. - Prestidigitweeze Don't hold on to the reigns once you've fallen off the horse, your just going to get dragged to death - SNiiPE_DoGG

31st Dec 2007, 18:53	#9
p3n Hypermodder Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 731	All well and good but the latency/security issues will keep me from ever using such a connection to the internet, also 1km is all that far, especially moving at 30 mph

31st Dec 2007, 19:22	#10
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1st Jan 2008, 00:27	#12
outlawaol ▲Operational Hazard Sticker▲ Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Greenbay, WI Posts: 930	Well, lets see.. I pay 15 cents to send a text msg, or to receive one. So.... an average txt msg is about 84 bytes I can send 12 msg's per KB I can also send up to 12,288 msg's per MB Or I can send 12,582,912 per GB Lets see... if they use the same fee's as a txt msg, they will be rich! Exactly $1843.20 Per MB. One more reason nickle and dimeing everyone is such a huge thing with these cell carries. Imagine that a cell company charges you per MB for content you dont even control (Like your own MP3's, movies, ect) Then also charging you to actually buy them from them ONLY for your phone. Need I go on? __________________ 40D\| 350D \| 24-105 f/4L \| 24-70 f/2.8 Sigma \| 50mm f/1.8 \| 75-300 f/4-5.6 Sigma \| 420ex Speedlight 365 Daily Photograph \| Smugmug

1st Jan 2008, 11:01	#13
rhuitron Bump? What Bump? Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California, Usa Posts: 122	Well. I am very impressed by this and will look forward to it. But unfortunately, I live in some foothills of Northern California, And nobody (Providers) even have 3g towers up here. It really blows. Once I get to the metropolitan area about 20 miles away, I can get on it with my N75. But we are so freaking behind it is not even funny. Like i say, I cant even get more than 350 kbps where I am at. *********hold on********* Yup, I did a speedtest.net test, and for some odd-ass reason I appear to be in Miami Florida, and get only 300kbps dwn and 100 up. So I hope guys enjoy it over there, Because I dont see it coming over here anytime soon. Hell, the last cellphone to come out from Cingular was the Nokia N75. __________________ You use an Apple?? Go play in traffic.

1st Jan 2008, 13:22	#15
Cupboard I'm not a modder. Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Bury St Edmunds/Durham Uni Posts: 1,840	I don't think there government is going to be investing much in fiber in the next few years, most of their spare cash is going into the Olympics (they are even cutting arts councils funding etc for that, its ridiculous) __________________ i7 920, 8800GTS 512, 6GB Corsair all in an Intel DX58SO; 3*320GB RAID5; CM Stacker Samsung Q45.

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Skill3d Multimodder Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 149	will this boil my eggs faster than using a pan?

2nd Jan 2008, 14:22	#17
hawky84 SilentModder Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Swindon Posts: 101	Well I'm currently getting 170Kbps at best through my Virgin ADSL connection which is suppose to be up to 8Mbps, I get kicked out of so many CSS games 'cause of my ping rate that I gave up playing! Doesn't look like cable of fibre is coming to my road anytime soon so I hope WiMAX or LTE come out soon, anything is better than what I have at the moment. Although I still think this is a fair few years off as I was looking at 806.11a back in 2005 at Uni and they are on 806.11e now and still not even out of small localized testing. Nokia should win the battle if LTE can work on the current infrastructure, I mean appart from being able to get to market faster than WiMAX they wont have to deal with the parents screaming about "not another wireless mast transmitting killer rays, think of the children think of the children!!!" __________________ buy old, overclock and spend some damn money on the actual game!!! Q6600, Asus P5K-E WiFi, Corsair XMS2 2GB, Gainward 8800GT Gold Sample, WD Caviar SE16 500GB (x2), OCZ StealthXStream 600Watt, Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme, Akasa Amber 120mm (x3), Akasa Fan Controller, Antec Sonata

19th Jun 2009, 14:44	#18
tibtib123 What's a Dremel? Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1	I definitely think that in a few years <a style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"http://www.three.co.uk/Mobile_Broadband" target="_blank">mobile broadband</a> will take over as the main form of internet connection around the world - with Wi Max seemingly taking over Africa it cant be long before we have a decent system here?