Down under in Australian researcher has developed a technology that could potentially give speeds of  250Mbps broadband over copper wires.

Dr John Papandriopoulos from Melbourne University studied the problem of interference rather than by simply trying to push more data through copper. This is good news for many as mainly people get broadband via ancient copper originally designed for analogue phone services.

The bad news is that the algorithms he has developed will remain a secret until he has obtained a patent, and then he recons that it could be another three or four years before we could see it in use by ISPs. Although there is the potential for 250Mbps, Papandriopoulos is aiming for a mere 100Mbps to start with.