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Net speed record smashed
Scientists have set a new internet speed record by transferring 6.7 gigabytes of data across 10,978 kilometres (6,800 miles), from Sunnyvale in the US to Amsterdam in Holland, in less than one minute.
I think I'd give my clothes, house and car, in exchange to just spending an hour using it!!
:D
really?
all that for an hour of downloading porn?
That is quite amazing........but there would be absolutely no need for that kind of bandwidth for the majority of internet users.
Im quite happy with my 576 down and 288 up!!! :)
Incidently cHiLiEd TiMMaY, what would you spend that hour doing? ;)
r3b007
Well I'd spend the first 3 minutes doing Padre's suggestion ;)
Then try and gain the upperhand against my friends on Counterstrike, by kicking their arses!! :D
And also watch all the trailers on Quicktime... I'm a sucker for them :)
That would be something I'd call "fast enough"... You could load one 700 MB movie in the time it takes to find the appropriate folder for it and click "Save"! But you'd also need a new network adapter... Not to mention adding some more RAM for buffering, as no hard drive can write 923 Mb/s... (Not too sure about that RAM speed either, someone could enlighten me about it.) And not too many (pr0n) servers have that fast outbound connection either, so...
honestly that kinda bandwidth would be a waste unless you had your own network and sites, gotta member your connection can be fast as hell but if a website you wanna see isnt as fast your not gunna get to play with that speed much, me im happy with my 1.7 MB per sec connection, now if you really wanted to play get an OS 256, its over 13 GB per second :) (creams self) oh sorry had to.
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Originally posted here by r3b00+
That is quite amazing........but there would be absolutely no need for that kind of bandwidth for the majority of internet users.
an IBM press release once read: " We've increased the RAM to 640k, noone will ever need any more than that. "Quote:
Originally posted here by gore
honestly that kinda bandwidth would be a waste unless you had your own network and sites,
LOL, I think I'd hold that sentiment if i were you. If it is one thing we as a society are good at in recent years, it is coming up with ways to use up bandwidth! I'm sure that by the time internet2 is in full swing, we'll be complaining about our "crappy fiber connections, only 200mbps, SHOOT!"
That is deifnately a sweet speed
I've got 1mbps up and 128kbps down and it does the trick for me...
but when i was at home last year i had 7mbps up and 320kbps down that was the best connection ever..... nothing like downloading at 900k/s and only playing 40 bux a month for it.
40 dollars????????? dude my 1.7 MB per second is 19 dollars.....cheaper than AOL
Don't forget gore, you're in the states and I'm in Canada... everything is cheaper down there to start with even after the exchange rate, and if you convert your 19 bux to to CDN Funds you're looking at about 30 bux.. and here in Ontario we pay a wonderful 15% taxes. It's a downside of living in Canada.
It stated in the article that the data was sent across the Internet2 network. Alot of universities in the US and Europe are integrating Internet2 into their campuses. I'm pretty sure its a closed network, used only for academic related activities. You can see a bandwidith usage breakdown of one of the connections at the University of Florida, its marked Abilene_Internet2 hereQuote:
honestly that kinda bandwidth would be a waste unless you had your own network and sites.
For some good reading I'd highly reccomend checking out Internet2's homepage at, http://www.internet2.edu/
Jonesy
Ok, so lets see...
623mbps = 77.8 MB/s
A maxtor D749X hard drive (ata133) has a maximum transfer rate of 54.2 MB/s!
Maxtor Atlas 15K has a maximum sustained data rate of up to 75MB/sec
Hehe... when you're hard drive is slower than your download, what do you do? ;)
Ammo
Lol. So i wasn't dreaming. I thought i read something about internet 2 a while back but could never remember from where. Those are some pretty crazy speeds.
You add more RAM for buffering. 200 MHz DDR SDRAM transfers data at the speed of 1.6 GBps ([8 bytes] x [200 MHz] = 1,600 MBps) and 466 MHz DDR SDRAM at stunning 3.7 GBps. That is enough still for a while. :)Quote:
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Ok, so lets see...
623mbps = 77.8 MB/s
A maxtor D749X hard drive (ata133) has a maximum transfer rate of 54.2 MB/s!
Maxtor Atlas 15K has a maximum sustained data rate of up to 75MB/sec
Hehe... when you're hard drive is slower than your download, what do you do? ;)
Ammo
That is "WOW" !
dude, OC256 = 256xT3, T3=140Mbit, 256x140=35840Mbit/sec = 35.8 Gbit per second... that must have been the old record that i just showed you.. but still thats fast!
Now who says we dutchies have little bandwith just because we're a small small country ;) ? The fun thing is they managed to exchange more data over 10,000 km then my desktop computer can internally, that's about 0.5 meter.
er0k, what's your source for that? I can't seem to be able to confirm those numbers you are giving. The numbers that this page shows are the most common that I keep running to.
It says that T3 is 44.736 Mbps and that OC-255 is 13.21 Gbps. Your misundestanding probably arose from the fact that OC-3 is 155.520 Mbps which is 3 x 51.840Mbps which is the speed of OC-1 (which is different from T3).
sorry there was no source, that was just from memory, but who knows..
T1 = 1.544MB/s (24 Channels x 64K/Channel)
T3 = heh well 43-45 (672 Channels x 64K/Channel)
A T3 pipe is 28 times larger than a T1 pipe
OC's are multiples of eachother the base being what ZeroOne said with OC1 = 51.84MB/s
erm, as far as I know, some one set a new data record a year or so back, using Optical cables running between france and england they sent something like 2.6Tb/s.
What they did was split the ligh up into something like 256 colours, and then sent it all parallel down one cable.....this wouldn't work on normal internet and such, but the speed was insane...I don't have a link to this, but some one feel free to correct me if I'm wong....any way...the difference here is that this technology wound't be very compatible with the internet right now, where as the one menioned in the first post is......any way....thats my 2 cents gone.
- Noia
Noia, that's correct. The technology is called Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing. While searching for that I found this excellent long page which has all the connection types ever existed listed, sorted by speed but the year of invention also being there.
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Dataphone; 300bps; 1958; 1st Modem: Bell Labs, Hayes AT commands.
9,600 baud; 9.6K; 1984; 4th Modem speed
1Base5; 1.000M; 1986; 250 Meters Two pairs of twisted telephone cable.
STS-1c; 51.840M; 1986; Synchronous Transport Signal, Level 1
Ah, the beauty of the baud.
*snif*
thats sick......it'd be nice to aquire such a connection gR|n :)
agh, can u imagine a DoS attack from a DWDM? it would devestate....IE. those lines would have to be under lock and bolt untill general computers became powerfull enough to handel them...still.....a connection like that would be sweet....I'd DL every thing I could....not to metnion try to Map the web....hehe.....I want to make my own map of the web, like that one from ThinkGeek.com......any how....Insane speed.....absolutly insane......might be good for WAN's though.
- Noia