Happiness is a new modem

[GreyGeek]

Oh, it can go much faster. DOCSIS bonds multiple television channels to obtain some very fast speeds. My Comcast service combines eight 256QAM channels for 105 Mbps downstream throughput. Without throttling, DOCSIS 3.0 with 24 downstream channels can reach 912 Mbps; DOCSIS 3.1 should reach speeds of 10 Gbps using 4096QAM and smaller channel spaces. Coaxial cable has oodles of possibilities.

Pardon my brain fart. I was thinking in terms of maximum frequency vs. impedance on the last mile of RG58/U or RG59/U cable feeding the wall sockets of most homes, not signal compression, which is what DOCSIS is doing. The old POTS phone line connection was able to use V.92 to get 52Kb/s, IIRC, on a phone line which Shannon theory predicted a maximum theoretical efficiency of 34Kb/s.

My own laptop has a maximum limit of 1Gb/s for ethernet and 300Mb/s for N band wireless. Were Lincoln ever to get capabilities exceeding those limits I would have to buy a new laptop or remain on the turtle I am riding now.