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Hold on to your cabinets: G.Fast chip shipper Sckipio has doubled the reach of its chipsets, and has demoed greater than 500Mbps speeds for a distance of 200 metres. To put that in perspective, 500Mbps over a distance of 200 metres equates to about one-third of a Usain*. The company is chuffed, because that's double the …

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  1. Andre Carneiro

    A waste of time and money...

    That is all.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: A waste of time and money...

      Indeed. Usain Bolt could easily carry two or more DVDs without being slowed down significantly.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Re: A waste of time and money...

        Or a USB stick. Hell, even 2½" hard drives aren't that bulky and they go up to nearly 2TB.

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  2. Benno

    Or just 1x 6TB HDD :)

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  3. Bunbury

    We really need a reference Usain

    For example, is this when he's being pushed hard in an Olympic final, or when he just chugs alond in a heat? Plus, the standard may degrade over time, as his legs age.

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    1. Arthur the cat Silver badge
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      Re: We really need a reference Usain

      "the standard may degrade over time, as his legs age"

      Do what the economists do to deal with inflation - "all speeds normalised to 2012 Usains"

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      1. Adam 1
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        Re: We really need a reference Usain

        That is quite a lot of him. Of they were all carrying a DVD it would leave gfast for dead.

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  4. Badvok
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    Usain Bolt carrying a DVD?

    Isn't a DVD a bit old fashioned, perhaps a 1TB SSD/USB stick would be more appropriate?

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  5. Martin Summers Silver badge

    Excuse

    Pretty much an excuse for BT to yawn, roll over and not bother investing in fibre to the premises. We will never get the infrastructure we want and in some cases need at this pace.

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  6. Bob H

    Usain Bolt

    Usain would have significant latency compared to G.fast?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Usain Bolt

      An advantage is that while he was running to the cabinet to fetch your next download, he could also pop by the fridge and fetch you a beer.

      But rather than get someone to carry DVDs to and from the cabinet, why not move your laptop to the cabinet and plug it in directly?

      http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/introducing-google-fiber-poles.html

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