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Fast links to the digital home.(Editorial)

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| November 10, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Incisive Media, published with the permission of Incisive Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Clive Akass

Fast links to the digital home

The news this month is dominated by the emerging fast links that will be needed to realise the potential of the digital home and the first generation of truly mobile PCs.

High Speed Download Packet Access (HSDPA) services, just being rolled out, will soon face competition from Wimax. Both technologies promise multi-megabit wireless access on the move, though there remains some doubt about what you can expect in practice (see page 24).

In the home, the latest data-over-mains products look almost too good to be true: you can set up a network with a real throughput of 80Mbits/sec by plugging adapters into power sockets.

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