BT Broadband Regenerator: new hope for slow ADSL lines? (UK)

[menotu]

By Barry Collins - Posted on 9 Nov 2012 - PCPRO

BT is trialling a new "Broadband Regenerator" device that it claims will boost speeds for those at the end of lengthy and sluggish ADSL lines.

ADSL speeds drop off markedly for customers at long distances from the exchange, with speeds often reduced to mere hundreds of kilobits per second for those who live several kilometres away.

The Regenerator is a small box that ideally sits halfway between the customer's property and the local telephone exchange, delivering speeds as if the customer's property were based at the location of the Regenerator.

Trials of the device in Cornwall have seen speeds boosted from low hundreds of kilobits per second to three or four megabits per second, according to Jeremy Stevenson-Barnes, network director for BT's Superfast Cornwall project.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/378052/broadband-regenerator-new-hope-for-slow-adsl-lines

[Just17]

Interesting .......  but definitely limited in a lot of cases where there are no 'extra' lines for powering the device .......  but one would imaging there might be alternative means of doing that ....

I wonder if they can be cascaded ......

[T6]

a noise filter and a signal strengthener for old copper lines?

some companies refuse to replace this technology, hard to justify all they do for it, specially knowing that this only works on certain situations where it is easy to reduce noise, in a city where 1 kilometer is common this won't help much