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Tired of slow internet connections? CableLabs announces a new version of DOCSIS 3.1 (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) with Full Duplex 10Gbps connectivity. From an article at The Register:
Which is why an announcement by the cable industry's research and development arm, CableLabs, this week is such good news. The organization has completed work on an upgrade to the next-generation DOCSIS 3.1 spec that in the next few years will replace the "M" in Mbps with a "G" for gigabit.
DOCSIS 3.1 is the cutting edge of home cable technology, and big players such as Comcast in the US are testing it in specific markets with a new generation of modems. That testing and rollout of near-gigabit broadband in the US, UK, Canada and beyond has been somewhat marred, though, by the fact that high-speed DOCSIS 3.1 home gateways powered by Intel Puma chips suffer from annoying latency jittering under certain conditions, and can be trivially knocked offline by attackers. No fixes are available.
Those hardware problems aside, the DOCSIS 3.1 spec has another issue: it sticks to the age-old sucky 10-to-1 downlink-uplink ratio.
No longer with the Full Duplex Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification. Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 will allow broadband subscribers – in the next two years – to benefit from up to 10Gbps both up and down. And it will be possible on existing household connections rather than requiring the installation of new fiber.
[...] You can find out more about Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 on the CableLabs website.
So, you could reach your monthly 1 TB data cap allowance in just under 3 hours, assuming, of course that the upstream link is not so oversubscribed that you only actually get a fraction of that.
All kidding aside, that is a huge speed improvement. A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that a 100GB BDXL Blu-ray disk could be downloaded in about 2 minutes. As the connection is full-duplex, it could be uploaded in about 2 minutes, too.
I can't even think of anything where that kind of speed would be useful in a home, except for making for speedier downloads of game/OS updates/installs and maybe for offsite backups.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday October 16 2017, @09:45PM (3 children)
That's great, but don't be surprised if the MAFIAA sues you because one of your neighbors was torrenting something.
Besides, even if you're not worried about that, at the very least I'd set up public and private networks, and give the private one QoS priority over the public one. Also, maybe you live in some rural-ish area and just aren't worried about your neighbors misusing it, but another thing you can do is set up two private (WPA2-protected) networks, with yours being given priority, and then give out the password to trusted neighbors, so that random drive-by people can't use it.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mykl on Tuesday October 17 2017, @05:27AM (1 child)
Nononononono. You've got this all wrong.
Plausible deniability
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday October 17 2017, @02:41PM
Plausible deniability is a way of arguing to win a court case where you've been sued. The problem with it is, you still have to hire a lawyer (at least $1k on retainer), appear in court, etc. It costs a small fortune to defend yourself in court against a lawsuit, even if it's baseless. You can try to countersue for legal fees, but American courts aren't very good about awarding that unless it's really obvious that the case was frivolous. And even if you do win a judgment, it can be hard to collect.
Lawsuits are a huge money sink for anyone who isn't a lawyer, or a very wealthy entity that can bully small defendants into settling, which is exactly the business practice of the MAFIAA in these cases (threaten you with a lawsuit, then get you to settle for $3k).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @03:08PM
Run the guest network through a VPN, and it won't be a problem. That also lets you trivially switch wifi networks to quickly get various geoblocked content. I keep an open network like so for guests, though split off Netflix traffic so it doesn't trigger proxy warnings for anyone who would connect.