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- stou, on 10/12/2007, -2/+113Haha, back in 95 or something AOL upgraded their modem in my town from 2400 to 14k and when I got back from vacation and logged in... I almost ***** myself... I thought it was fast.
Yes I had AOL in 95, I wont apologize for it. - InferiorWang, on 10/12/2007, -5/+99I bet they grease their tubes.
- kahlessreborn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+82Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I websurfed, weak and weary,
Over many a strange and spurious website of hot chicks galore,
While I clicked my fav’rite bookmark,
suddenly there came a warning,
And my heart was filled with mourning,
mourning for my dear amour.
‘Tis not possible, I muttered,
give me back my cheap hardcore! —
Quoth the server, “404″. - Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+65bah, not as fast as me throwing my 500gb into the other room
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+56would you even be able to write that information onto the harddrive at those speeds?
- Icecream, on 10/12/2007, -8/+58Thats alot of Porn
- Diggtatorship, on 10/12/2007, -6/+47I take one please.
- arjie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35Damn it all, they said *internet* speed records. Otherwise, I could match their speed by moving the 320GB drive to my other computer in 35 seconds. How's that for speed!
- ProtonageNet, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35I don't think it will be coming any time soon. It will take years if not even a whole decade to be adopted by American communication companies because they have "no money" and aren't bugged enough by their users to care enough. You're better off moving to Denmark where they sell off this kind of new technology.
- graystar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29Hollywood, did you see that? Time to innovate while you have the chance.
- Dundasbro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28Tell that to us ***** Australian's. We'll take anything right now.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31The best SATA can pump out now is 3Gbps, and I seriously doubt many hard drives can fully use that bandwidth. For that matter, a lot of people are still using PATA connections, which doesn't even come close to SATA.
It'll be some time before the average consumer computer is capable of working at these high speeds... and even longer... much longer, before ISPs (especially in North America) start offering anything close to this.
Besides, this is Internet2... a totally different network. Considering the volume of traffic our Internet sees every second, it would be incredibly hard to get these sort of speeds on a public world-wide network. - sickswaystop, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30about damn time
- clesch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25That would be roughly 13 times faster than SATA II.
Nice "Uni Comps" there. - imeddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Dec.30th? Why did they wait so long to announce it? Did they win some sort of prize at the Internet2 consortium's meeting or something?
- BobTurtle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26phdaves,
No. It is about garden weasels, kites, and people who don't know how to do simple google searches to find information. - KlayBorg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26Considering his name is Chingy, I highly doubt he even went to uni.
- IamTheProfessor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+227.67 gigaBITS = .95875 gigaBYTES
- KlayBorg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Having the largest tumor, longest fingernails or the no genitals records kinda trumps it.
- vdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20New Zealand doesn't even have ADSL2. :(
Stupid lack of competition. - Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14your right sporg, and intel should just stop making faster processes because the current ones are fast enough for what we are doing right now
gfx cards are powerful enough to play current games on max, better tell nvidia to stop the RnD hey, I mean its not like the future will bring new ways to utilise increased power and flexibility - KlayBorg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Well, if you vote for Labour, they plan to put in the latest internet tech across the country. Vote Labour!
BTW: to all Non-Aussies, Australian Labour is the of the American Democrats. And the Liberals are the equivalent of the American Republicans.
@ sporg.
The smart thing is to actually provide a source when you make such a extreme claim. - HairyPoter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9let see if I understand. Today we have what is called "broadband" that is a crappy Internet speed that without all voodoo help you can get, do not gets speeds above 6 Mbps for downloading and 640 kbps for uploading, even promising 24 Mbps (ADSL2+) - while guys in South Korea pays 25 bucks a month and gets fiber optical at 100 Mbps bi-directional real speed.
In Occident, telecom execs have their pants crapped when someone mention high speed for the masses, as they want to get more money without investing a single dime and if people get real high speed they are ***** and will have to spend money to invest in new networks or, at least use the network they already have and is not used fully.
So, point is: as telecoms will never implement high speed Internet, is this high speed Internet something like the crappy concept car?
NOTE: I have already seen 3,867,654 concept cars - but who is counting? - in the last 10 years - from hydrogen powered to fart powered - and none have been produced yet. - profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+94.0Gbps is not 40Gbps. And I still have a harrd time believing 4.0Gbps.
- msgyrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8UPS overnight shipping has an insane bandwidth, at a cheap cost. The drawback is you have to send several terabytes of data at once to make the $/Gb cost effective, and the latency is really bad.
- mrdctaylor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Ha. I saw that award presented yesterday. In fact, I am sitting in a session in the Internet2 Spring Meeting right now. The guy who accepted it looked like a Japanese Einstein. Craziest hair I've ever seen.
- Dundasbro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Truly terrifying stuff.
- se7en11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7You may want to switch to decaf...
- JosepBadu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I remember upgrading my 50 baud modem on my Vic20 (Using VIPXL!) to a 300 baud modem. I thought that it could not get any faster, as the text from my BBS would scroll much too fast to read.
Ahh the days.... - All4not, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This record is over about 10x farther distance. 20,000 miles is much farther than around 2,000 miles from Pitt to LA.
The question is what is the latency on these questions? - msgyrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Uh...just a little paranoid? Internet2 isn't for control, it was created to send research data between universities, and isn't even open to the public. Sometimes things developed there trickle down to the real internet, but you won't ever use the internet2 at home because it's not really a network in the same sense that the 'regular' internet is, it's a consortium of universities and technology companies to test and develop high speed technologies.
On top of that, internet2 uses standard ipv4 and ipv6 protocals and standard TCP and UDP connections. If you're going to be paranoid, at least be paranoid about something you're not completely ignorant about. But then again, I guess if you were educated, you wouldn't get to have as much fun trolling the internet. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+14let then pr0n jokes begin
- bneuman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Also, the 101GBPS was accomplished using a custom protocol designed by Internet2 Engineers. This article says they hit 7.67gbps using standard protocols.
Now, if they were able to build their own network, then we'll see unheard of speeds, but that will never make mainstream. - lcarsdeveloper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4512kbps with 20GB per month download limit sucks, but it's all I can afford (I'm in Australia). This article just pushes the knife in further (well not so much the article as the comments from worldwide broadband users posting their speeds). But broadband speed and infrastructure isn't very important, at least to our Prime Minister John Howard. Why is it in so many countries the people in charge of broadband internet are too old to know what it is? **cough** tubes! **cough**
- ubuntuedgy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I get 39,000+ kb/s from my university, but compared to these test results that is nothing!
http://www.speedtest.net/result/117728586.png - keruha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Anyone remember I2hub?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2hub
Those were the days... - mrdctaylor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Keep in mind that this is Internet2. It is a special network only accessible from universities and research institutions. This was not over the common internet.
- h3ndrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Run for the hills, the future is coming!
- rutski, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4rogers and sympatico would still limit bandwidth speeds to a crawl...pricks.
- msgyrd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7While it's kinda cool, it's completely pointless for consumers right now. Internet2 was built for the sole purpose of tranferring ungodly amounts of research data between universities, so this isn't much of a surprise either.
No, hard drives cannot write information that fast, but you can write to RAM that fast. The article also didn't say how much information was sent. I'm not sure how they benchmark it, but sending a 10mb file in a fraction of a second would give you a higher Gbps than sending 15 Gb file in a few seconds. Burst speeds are usually faster than sustained speeds, so more infomation about this would be interesting. - kingkilr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Hey, the porn is pilling up, it's not going to download itself!
- TrevorBradley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is still point to point communication. It doesn't make sense to have 9 Gbps to the home when all the users will be sharing a 9Gbps (or perhaps multiples of that) from a router upstream.
Bandwidth isn't the problem these days... Hard Drive and Removable Media storage are. I think I'd rather have a thousandfold increase in media size and keep my slower 5Mbps home connection than have 9Gbps but only 1TB of hard drives (which this would fill in about 20 minutes)
In 1996, I remember taking my entire collection of floppies and burning them to two $5 CDs, literally a 500 fold increase in media size. Less than 10 years before that (in 1988) I was using 3.5" 1.44MB floppies which cost about $4 a pop Canadian.
It's been another 10 years, where's my $5, 2TB ultra-dvd-r, dammit? ;)
(I know, no commercial use for such a technology...) - ayam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3More depth article :
http://digg.com/tech_news/New_Internet2_Land_Speed_Record_30_000_km_path_7_time_zones_9_08_Gbps
http://www.wide.ad.jp/news/press/20050506-LSR2-e.html - TrevorBradley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3100% *****. You have no sense of scale of how small atoms are.
The halfway point of volume between an atom, and all the water on planet earth is about 7mm, maybe a shotglass full.
In other words, the number of molecules of water in a shotglass is about the same as the number of shotglasses of water in all the earth's oceans.
There are about 3x10^25 molecules of water in a liter of water. Let's be generous and say they're small bananas and have about 10^25 molecules in them. That's 10 million billion billion molecules.
Or by your own analogy, 10,000,000,000,000,000 GB. At 10GB/s, it would take 10^24 seconds, or something like 10^17 years. The universe is 10,000,000 times younger than that.
Internet2 doesn't hold a ***** candle. - forcedfx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Jim, your numbers are way off. 9.08 Gbps is a lot more than 5Mbps.
- Sendss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@princessangry
Yeah it's pretty curious that the RIAA would support higher speed connections.
Internet 2 will be the death internet freedom. - Negyxo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2*mumble sonofabitch mumble*
but the real question is: Are torrrents blocked at all? - AngelBunny, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3you probably mean 40megbit/s which is very close to t3. my high school was on 100megbit/s duplex, but the highest bandwidth i ever got was about 86megbit/s on a speed test.
- NecroSexy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Copy and paste this message...woops, sry, thought i was in youtube, my bad
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You should talk to the guys over at Verizon Mobile.
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