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- jdoe562, on 10/18/2007, -5/+126I can't wait to try bittorrent on that miracle of science!
- sparkysko, on 10/18/2007, -6/+96Dammit. What's with these crappy units of measurement.
"Want to transfer a third of a terabyte in the time it takes to order a burger?"
Maybe. Am I at McDonalds or at Red Robin?
People, PLEASE stop using these ridiculous units of measurement. Don't tell me how many library of congresses the data is, or how many 9/11's worth of people something is or how many football fields something is big. - SomeImagination, on 10/11/2007, -2/+44How long does it take to order a burger?
- BlackJackJester, on 10/18/2007, -2/+40Don't diss on my speedometer that tells me my speed in furlongs per fortnight.
- div2n, on 10/11/2007, -0/+36Don't get too excited. You will slam up against bottlenecks in your system long before you use even a fraction of that 100Gbps much less the alleged boost up to 1000Gps. Perhaps the system of tomorrow will be able to capitalize on that. But first you will need storage systems that have MUCH higher actual read and write rates than they do now.
- FloppyLlamaDigg, on 10/11/2007, -5/+41I agree. Let's roll back to 56k. Society will surely benefit from that. In fact, lets ban the internet all together, since it's only used for the evil, evil intention of pirating movies and software.
- Dumbledorito, on 10/18/2007, -8/+41Ahead, pr0n factor nine!
- picsectionpleez, on 10/11/2007, -1/+33what?? that's like saying let's lower the speed limit on roads so that bank robbers can't escape as fast
- SleepingOrange, on 10/18/2007, -3/+29So how does this benefit the standard consumer? I keep hearing the stories of miracle transfer rates over the last couple years, but I've had the same ~150kb/s as an average since the year 2000 or so.
- BlackJackJester, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21Thats because your cable company is too cheap to upgrade their infrastructure that they put built in the year 2000 or so.
- sigmaman2, on 10/18/2007, -1/+21Okay, so a DVD holds roughly 38Gb of data (that's GigaBITS, not GigaBytes). And at a speed of 100Gb/Sec, that works out to a download speed of about 2.6 DVDs/sec! Amazing!
- noahhoward, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2150GB is 400Gb so on a 100Gbps connection it would take 4 seconds.
- kingkilr, on 10/11/2007, -3/+22Blu-Ray is about 50GB, assuming you are using the whole 100Gbps it would take 4 seconds, ***** P2P for that.
- kidcodea, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20control control control
- sigmaman2, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19Let me put it this way...
You will get 200 more bootleg pr0n DVDs downloaded to your PC, ready for viewing, by the time you finish jerking off to the first scene. - samurimaster, on 10/18/2007, -10/+28so how fast can i download porn
- inactive, on 10/18/2007, -0/+17Yay! Now it wont take a whole day when you try to send an internet through the tubes.
- goerg, on 10/18/2007, -1/+17what kind of freaked-out harddrive will write a third of a terabyte in the time i order a burger??
- Lorddias, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17Nar matey, Bit torrent will always exist as long as there are pirates.
- kingkilr, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17I went with Blu-ray because it has more storage space, not because I give a damn about it.
- dagamer34, on 10/18/2007, -0/+15Of course, people have to realize that HDD transfer speeds cap download speeds once you get past 1Gbps.
- winmywii, on 10/18/2007, -2/+17100gbps? Can we work on getting me a faster connection to my house first? I'd settle for 1gbps.
- BlackJackJester, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16Or maybe it will kick start the long overdue overhaul of how people get and pay for media, IE directly from the artist, without any RIAA/MPAA crap in between.
- inactive, on 10/18/2007, -1/+15if bytes were people, a terabyte would be roughly the equivalent of 333333333 9/11s
- Daedalus17, on 10/18/2007, -1/+13How can something that is the most widely used medium be outdated?
- chsbrgr, on 10/13/2007, -3/+15"Internet2 merged with National LamdaRail, which offered similar services to academics, earlier this year."
In other news, academic and Theoretical Physicist Gordon Freeman was last seen racing to the new facility. - OutThisLife, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Except if that happens people will find ways around it.
- BlackJackJester, on 10/18/2007, -0/+11Too bad hard drives can only write at 3Gbps (at most, usually quite a bit slower).
- kidcodea, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12SSD x4 RAID 0 FTW
- winmac96, on 10/18/2007, -0/+11At 100Gbps or the "slower" 10Gbps links, there won't be a need to buy DVDs, BD-ROMs, and HD-DVDs. They'll be stored by your local provider's video vaults ready for consumption - any time. At low enough prices, they'll completely eliminate piracy for quality.
- drizzlelicious, on 10/18/2007, -1/+12And yet here I am still using the equivalent of a 56k connection...
- milliamp, on 10/18/2007, -2/+13I want a car with pictures of little animals instead of an actual unit of measurement. turtle, rabbit, horse, cheetah etc.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10If our internet connections were all 100Gbps then web page sizes would increase to 50Gbps with hd commercials and massive flash ads.
- ssjdoob, on 10/11/2007, -4/+14Unfortunately, bittorrent will probably be disabled on the internet2. Anonymous internet usage will be gone as well. I hope not though.
- OutThisLife, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10I remember when 150 kb/s used to be considered good.
- sigmaman2, on 10/18/2007, -1/+11I agree with you sparkyso, but we got to keep in mind that not everybody knows what a bit is, let alone a gigabit, or a gigabit/sec.
Most people know what a football field is, or how long it takes to get a hamburger though.
Smart people will already know what is going on, but for pity's sake, stupid people need frames of reference too.
"Oh my god! 72 hours? That's tomorrow!" - Peter Griffin - DaMacGamer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10I'm going to need a bigger hard drive...
- BlackJackJester, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I'd just like to add getting caught for downloading is independent of how long it takes you to do so. If anything, it will make it easier for them because you'll be downloading all of blockbuster in an hour.
- jhshukla, on 10/18/2007, -0/+9i won't because those are actual units of length and time. otoh, if it were to tell you your speed in X times bullet speed ...
- picsectionpleez, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9depends on the waitress- Jodie DSL doesn't come to your table as mast as Cable Marge.
- lifenstein, on 05/30/2009, -0/+8If a person doesn't know what a byte/terabyte is, then what is the use of saying that they can 'transfer a third of a terabyte in the time it takes to order a burger' ?
'Most people know what a football field is, or how long it takes to get a hamburger though.' - In the US, maybe. There is a world outside, you know. - anarchistuk, on 08/11/2009, -0/+8I gather it's 100GBps for the entire college network, not a single computer...
- Askee, on 10/11/2007, -5/+13And still limit our bandwidth.
I can't wait for the porn though. I won't be able to fap fast enough to keep up! - Quaterni0n, on 10/18/2007, -0/+8This is all fine and dandy with a few thousand people on Internet2, but the real test will be when it opens up to the public and a billion people start downloading porn at the same time.
- noahhoward, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Sure, lets stop technologies like tele-surgery, live high-fidelity data, medical imaging transfer, and other innovations just so we can stop pirates. What an absolutely stupid suggestion.
- MrMacMan, on 10/18/2007, -0/+7a) Your analogy fails.
b) With this much bandwidth it would take an actual effort you to stop your ratio from going 100:1.
c) Mythbusters rules. - Tabris, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I average about 20kb/s at COLLEGE. It's horrible.
- Gratefuldead, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7internet2 is the feds answer to issues facing today's net, so don't get too excited
- Namco, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Thanks for spoiling the fun... ass.
- effedup, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6"not fast enough"
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