A friend of mine sent me this screenshot and said that his friend got phiber optic cables and then hacked his ISP and supercharged his connection to 11gbps. Is this even possible? Here is the screenshot.
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A friend of mine sent me this screenshot and said that his friend got phiber optic cables and then hacked his ISP and supercharged his connection to 11gbps. Is this even possible? Here is the screenshot.
Greetings:
Your friend is trying to make a fool out of you, so tell him to STFU.
Take a look at the address that's in the address bar. That site passes the determined speed from some other script as a variable to this one that parses things out in pretty web format. You could change the "kbps=" to any value that you want, and make the page display it.
Tell your friend to go back to playing stupid pet tricks with AOL users. :2pick:
It's always a friends friend..
Could it that it's a crappy test and stuff was cached ??
reading from cache could give you results like this..
or photoshop ;) else I would like a howto from your friends friend ;)
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Nice one JP..
Didn't think of that..
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in either case. the simple answer is no. because he might have fibre optics, but if the provider doesnt, it wouldnt get that speed. and as for hacking the isp to obtain a faster connection, even if this were true, it would also be one of the most obvious things ISP's keep and eye out for - and wouldnt last long without persecution.
CTO
Greetings All:
Sorry, but that last statement isn't at all true. You've obviously never heard of people uncapping their cable connections? Something easily done, and not often detected.Quote:
Originally posted here by CybertecOne
and as for hacking the isp to obtain a faster connection, even if this were true, it would also be one of the most obvious things ISP's keep and eye out for - and wouldnt last long without persecution.
CTO
When I get my OS 256 I'll have a faster connection than that. 13 GBPS ;) *Sigh* not that the rest of the internet could keep up with it.... Or my HD in my Laptop could handle it... Or the HD in any of my desktops. Ah well.
theres a big difference between uncapping and speed. (once again the International Issue may have come up as Australian ISP's may work quite differently)Quote:
uncapping their cable connections? Something easily done, and not often detected.
and to answer the post's title, if that speed is ever possible, yes... eventually ANY speed would be possible (whats to say it wont be) ... but atm that speed would come in at some big $$$ heh. almost to the point of a waste of money for internet. you can only dl as fast as the repsponding servers can upload.
He's got fiber optics cable going from where to where? Yes fiber optic cables can exceed 10Gbps, but the chances that u can get that on your computer atm is nil. You still have a cat5 fast ethernet cable connected from your computer to the modem. If its a cable modem you have a coaxial cable running from the wall to the modem and from the modem to your computer through either a cat5 cable, or a USB cable. If its DSL, then you have a cat1 cable going to the modem, and a cat5 going to the computer. Cat5 cables have a max speed of 100mb/s btw.Quote:
A friend of mine sent me this screenshot and said that his friend got phiber optic cables and then hacked his ISP and supercharged his connection to 11gbps. Is this even possible? Here is the screenshot.
Fiber optic cables, or 10baseF cables are expensive, and generally placed underground.....I seriously doubt your friend got them. Maybe he bought a few meters and its just laying in his room :D. He's simply bullshitting you lol.
I ment to say even possible....ever was a typo.
No it is not possible at all. At Packet Engines (pretty good switches) they a huge pipe to the internet 1Gbps and the ISP had to throttle them down to 512Mbps because they couldn't handle the load.
The OC-255 has a theoretical limit of 13.2Gbps. As far as I've heard the biggest one working today in the real world is OC-192 at 10Gbps. But even that is between sites not to the internet. Both of these are big equipment, big cost, big installation.
Look into the internet2 project...
I beleive at the moment... the fastest people have sent data over the "internet" is at ~ 6.6Gbps...
https://mail.internet2.edu/wws/arc/i.../msg00000.html
Nice site though... :) http://internet2.edu
Search google for some "internet speed records"... there are some very interesting articles out there...
I want to know what kind of hard drives and bus they are using to transfer all that data...
/me off to do some more reading up on the internet2 project...
I've got them all beat!
I was looking at a site a while back (searching google for it again) that showed me a list of connection speeds, and I saw one that transfered x TeraBytes/second. Can't exactly say it's true but it says it's something discovered a while back. I also google'd the connection and came up with some ISPs but no prices. I'll edit this post if I find it.
EDIT: Found a site that has a list of a lot of connections, not the website I saw but it works: http://home.cfl.rr.com/eaa/Bandwidth.htm
EDIT2:http://www.ddrmaniax.net/forums/lofi...php/t3068.htmlQuote:
an OC192 has 9953.28 megabits, and a OC3072 has 159.252 gigabits
well... dam gore that is awsome maby i will uhh come over and play with that internet you know but my net speed is off the chart it is so fast...lol...lmao(52kbps) lol well yah i dunno i could not personally see anything wrong with it i searched for ever and it was hard...lol but i guess some people spotted the fake spots well great job to all...who can i suck at that stuff i thought it would be cool to have net like that though.
I know there is supposed to be OC192 between Nago (Okinawa), Japan, and the southern main island of mainland Japan. That is the biggest pipe I know of. There are many smaller 1gbps that criss-cross all over Okinawa and mainland Japan, but those are all copper, CAT-6, run by Yahoo! BB (SoftBank). They offer(ed) 8mbps/1mbps, 12mbps/1mbps, and 50mbps/3mbps for under $50 a month. The next step in Japan is 100mbps fiber, but it isn't avaliable everywhere. I lived a couple of blocks too far to get it cheaply in Okinawa... Apart from that, I know of at least one person who resold bandwidth on Okinawa and made a phat living off of it, but I never meet him or learned what he was doing. That was heresay from some of my friends.
Anyways, I don't think you could touch a 50mbps connection in the USA for ~$50 a month. Although when you start to consider classic TCP/IP in high latency environments (anything around the world and above or around 300KB/s) it hits a ceiling. This is where Internet2 has done away with old things to speed it up. Why wait for confirmation if you aren't even filling up the pipe and can keep sending? Full throttle ahead! (Granted, I haven't read into what Internet2 changed)
Only a couple of blocks and you didn't move?! I would have... but then again..Quote:
Originally posted here by Tim_axe
The next step in Japan is 100mbps fiber, but it isn't avaliable everywhere. I lived a couple of blocks too far to get it cheaply in Okinawa...
One of the deciding factors on which apartment I'm moving into is if they allow me to get either DSL or Cable... seems I might not need either... there are scores of unprotected WAPs that show up during a short "drive bys"... :D