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New Internet2 Land Speed Record

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the infinite-bandwidth-now dept.

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."

2 of 326 comments (clear)

  1. Yeah, but wait till COX gets ahold of it... by TWX_the_Linux_Zealot · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... and bandwidth restricts it to 128K...

    --

    IBM had PL/1, with syntax worse than JOSS,
    And everywhere the language went, it was a total loss...
  2. Re:Just in time for ... by Bob+McCown · · Score: 0, Troll

    No man, the pr0n, think of the pr0n!