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- JesperL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The hard-drive would be screaming, "It's band is too wide, Aaaiiiii!"
/hard-drive explodes.
Dirty humour. ]:D - umfpt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm off to download the Internet.
- nihilator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This innovation is great and all, but we won't see it any time soon.
The US is still lagging way behind in offering higher broadband speeds to consumers. We're only just now getting services like Verizon FIOS.
Compare the typical broadband speed in the US to a country like...South Korea. The difference is just plain sad. - shaft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if i had that bandwidth i would run seti@home
- matts0344, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Too bad I coulden't do anything with that speed, my hard drive is so damn slow
- debian_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if i had that bandwidth i would run seti@home
- shaft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i could find aliens with that bandwidth :)
- hochy0lora, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wow i thought 1.5 mbps was fast lol
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0just give me 150mb thats cool with me
- cawpin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0shaft - its gigaBIT ethernet, not gigabyte. some people....
- orabox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ok, Not sure I get this. They used 22 10gig fiber links prolly OC-192 22x10=220. They I-muxed the connections and were able to move around 150 mbps. Am I missing something? I will have to re-read what they were trying to do but I don’t see a great breakthrough at this point but I am not looking at it from an application standpoint just looking at the bandwidth. They talked about Fast TCP wich seemed interesting perhaps that is the breakthrough.
- nocre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes, that's how the ISPs rangle the uninformed. It's not 3 megaBYTES down, kiddies. It's only 497kbps.
Well, I'm running at like 4Mbps, supposedly. My average speed is 800kbps, but I'll often just up to 3MBps (sustained). Highest it has ever been was 12MBps, but it began dropping as soon as download initiated. The download did finish, however, before falling below 7MBps. - MasterDwarf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wonder if AOL offers that? Too many questions?
- shaft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0anti_hax0r is to cawpin as elton john is to boy george
- strikezero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Boy what i wouldnt give to have that speed for the internet!
- chrbeam101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0im gonna need some massive hd space. o and i might need some CAT500000 wire too. lol
this is when movies piracy really gets bad. - kfolsom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0150 Gb/s?
My PC would smoke out... My clock runs @ only 3GHz... My HDD works slower than that... My router does not go that fast.
What good does that do me as a netizen? DICK!
Yeah, great... 150 Gb/s...
Giga byte me...
When and until the "internet at large" is blazing along at these speeds, this result is "fantasy"...
While we're at it, let's all move to "Fantasyland"...
I love Disneyland
Cheers,
kfolsom
- anti_hax0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0shaft is such a tool hahahahaha
- ccrook, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Thats 18.7gigaBYTES per second, kids.
- euphoria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0umfpt: Using the figure of 532,897 terabytes for the "size of the Internet" in 2002, you could download the 2002 Internet in 42 days. I can't easily find any newer size estimates though.
- Nocturnal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'd donate my left testicle to be a recipient of a lifelong supply of a pipe this big. :)
- Kenotic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We will not have anything like this any time soon. Soon = in my life time, but with the way my predictions work that might mean we could get it when I turn 50.
- rolandog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Think of the ammount of pr0n you could download with that.
- nocre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0moose_diggs - I'm sorry, but study some geography. I suppose you're technically correct, though, since some country somewhere with spectacular bandwidth is the same size as a county in California.
- x2dx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What i wouldent give for a 10MB connection let alone a 150GB connection
(WORLD LARGES WAREZ BOX lol) - antifuse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Compare the typical broadband speed in the US to a country like...South Korea. The difference is just plain sad.
Well, it's better than big chunks of Ireland (although, one provider here is touting 24 mbps broadband at the moment). - daft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is neat. But the real issue isn't of bottlenecks. Unlike most of our technological advances, increased bandwidth isn't being driven by market forces (that went out when we all got broadband).
The issue is of combined bandwidth. Consider that it's not just one guy who'd be getting 150GB/sec - the architecture would need to allow for us all to achieve that speed simultaneously. - kevincw01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0actually at 9gb per double-sided dvd, it comes out to 125 discs, not 130 but hey, whos counting?
- Jibberish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For all the people out there feeling that they are going to comment on their speeds, this articles etc... Please notice that there is a big difference between GBps, and Gbps. One is in bytes, the other is in bits. All transmission rates are listed in bits per second (bps), because transmission takes place (essentially) on a bit by bit basis. Bits do not become bytes until they are placed in a memory location, hard drive sector, or CPU register.
- shaft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0for someone who watches "Battlestar Galactica" ur in no position to criticize anyone.
- CaptainCalculus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is awesome... Now all we need is to find some sort of data producing program that can saturate these kinds of channels...
Think of the folding@home or SETI@home projects. Instead of everyone sending all of the data to California over the internet. There is a west coast server and an east coast server dedicated to taking incoming data. From there, all the data then is transfered lets say once or twice a day over these high speed channels to the main data storage and processing 'box' (for lack of a better word). Think of it all being like a tree with leaves on both sides where the trunk is the 150Gb/s pipeline and the branches are the conventional internet channels and the twigs & leaves represent the home and office networks.
And my biology teacher said I would need to understand the innerworkings of the transport system of trees later in life... Guess she was right... - strikezero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree mooose, NYS , SF, LA , if those cities got it, then other cities would want it and demand it, same as broadband.. it started in the bigg cities first. Also, the research and test's where done by a company funded by the us government!, so you never know what can happen, this same company is also the same one working on the string theory, m theory.
- nihilator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Read my posts more carefully in the future"
posted by moose_diggs
Follow your own advice and read my post carefully. I never said that you stated it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how much do i have to pay for an hour ? lol
- anti_hax0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wtf does Battlestar Galactica have to do with my tight ass?
- RMuffin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'd give my left nut to science, and every other spare organ I possess to get that.
Let's do some math...
Average p0rn0 movie, 1GB, that's 150GB in a second. That's 9000 movies in one minute. Let's say each movie is one hour. That's 60 years or of jacking off in one minute.
Maby I won't give me left nut... you can have just about everything else though. - moose_diggs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0YOU stated " based on your logic" THERE WASNT ANY LOGIC required or utilized in my statement. It was purely a FACTUAL STATEMENT
AND I never compared anything!
My post is pointed at those who are always touting these tiny countries as the great internet providers for their citizens , when actually they arent all everyone makes them out to be. - bort, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0One person makes an asinine comment belittling other nations. Another person sees this and makes it his/her objective to tear it down.
12 years later the war still rages on.
The beauty of arguing over the Internet: it never ends. - zoltan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0too bad motherboards cant even run at that speed, my sata drive is theoretically 1.5 gbps doh
- moose_diggs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@nihilator
I never said that our large cities or densely populated areas were comparable. I'm talking about their (other countries) densely pop. cities. I only stated FACTS.... these countries that people tout as being so supreme with their huge pipe BW .. are overstating it just a bit. And although NYC is a very small very dense pop. area there are a huge list of reasons why the BW there is limited which im not going into here.
Read my posts more carefully in the future - nihilator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I'm just trying to make a point that the United States is HUGE compared to most of these Mega BW countries and if you examine these small countries closely you will find that it is only the densely populated areas that have the high speeds thus making it even easier for ISP's to deliver."
posted by moose_diggs (1)
Ok, then based on your logic, the densely populated areas in the US should be comparable. But they're still not. Consider the options in NYC. - anti_hax0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the bigger person wouldn't have started it
- shaft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ok crazy guy im gonna be the bigger person and just walk away...
- Cerberus047, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow the amount of porn/masturbate ratio would be off... my penis would explode!!!!
- strikezero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0for someone who watches "Battlestar Galactica" ur in no position to criticize anyone.
pwned - almost_crazy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow....why do I think it's not going to come here in like 5+ years?
oh yeah digg+1 - zaid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i'm guessing this is 18.75 gigabytes down, so you initiate a call to the other side and it just send you everything at once...or is it a full fledged protocol?
article doesn't have much detail...
orabox - if they are using 22 seperate lines, like you said, this is technology is very far away from being implemented in a broad basis (away from univs and research labs). the greatest cost is not in hardware, but really, in wires that span any network. And the syncing problems that come up when using the 22 fibre optic lines is why i have doubts its a fully realized network protocol, and just a way to get large pieces of data from one place to another.
- capn_caveman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Now if they could just make something that could write and store data that fast...
- strikezero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Average p0rn0 movie, 1GB, that's 150GB in a second. That's 9000 movies in one minute. Let's say each movie is one hour. That's 60 years or of jacking off in one minute.
I take that back ill keep my right nut, seems i would be keeping it busy with all that pr0n! - anti_hax0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hahahah shaft is such a bone
it should be anti_hax0r is to cawpin as elton john is to david furnish - how did you know about us anyway shaft???? we didn't get a gift... -
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