An australian researcher has found a way to make broadband connections up to 100 times faster.

Current ADSL (Asynchronous Digital Subscribers Line) broadband connections function at a speed between 1 Mbps to 20 Mbps. This limitation is due to the electromagnetic interference of the line which slows down the transmission. But good news comes from a research fellow at the University of Melbourne who came up with some algorithms that can compensate this limitations and can significanty increase ADSL connections speed.

The algorithms, if applied to ADLS modem’s chips will speed up the connection speed by up to 100 times making it possible to reach speeds of up to 100 Mbps.

Stanford University’s professor John Cioffi who developed the computer chips inside the first DSL modems, was one of the external experts reviewing Dr Papandriopoulos’ PhD thesis and was so impressed by the research’s conclusion that he offered him a job at his start-up company, ASSIA.

Although Dr Papandriopoulos is assigning the intellectual property of his discovery to the University of Melbourne commercialization company, Melbourne Ventures, he expects significant royalties from licensing agreements.

It might take some time before Papandriopoulos’ discovery may be implemented by modem manufactures and internet providers around the world, but he says the algorithms are very easy to implement in current ADSL modems.