New Internet2 Land Speed Record

SquadBoy writes "An international team set a new record for Internet performance by transferring the equivalent of an entire compact disc's contents across more than 7608 miles (12,272 km) of network in 13 seconds. The rate of 401 megabits per second achieved in transferring 625 megabytes of data from Fairbanks, Alaska to Amsterdam in the Netherlands is over 8000 times greater than the fastest dial-up modem."

Comments

Ping rate?

[Jon Abbott]

401 Mb/s is great, but what sort of ping rates were they getting?

Re:It has to be said...

[Jon Abbott]

Andrew Tannenbaum put it best with, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

Re:I work there and...

[pavera]

what you forget is a 1gbps ethernet connection might get 300mbps of actual throughput.. and its almost always much lower than that (at work between 2 servers with 1gbps nics, I can normally get throughput of about 150-250mbps) and thats 2 computers sitting right next to each other on the rack.

Across the atlantic, 400mbps is pretty darn impressive.