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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."
If I'm not mistaken, that's approximately as fast as a 7200rpm ATA/66 drive can transfer data, say, to another partition on the same drive, or what have you.
Palaces, barricades, threats, meet promises
The RIAA and MPAA have both come out proclaiming Hayes' new 4800 baud modem with MNP5 as the best connection system possible, and are subsidizing the conversion from broadband to these hardware devices with a $50 rebate until the end of the year.
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Marge: "Does anyone need that much porn?"
Homer (drooling): "One million times faster...."
Suddenly my DSL no longer seems fast enough.
The Moo went "Cow!"
401 Mb/s is great, but what sort of ping rates were they getting?
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Some day, I'll have that kind of bandwidth running to my home. And my ISP will still disallow my personal telnet server because of the strain it will put on the network.
Finally finding the pr0n becomes the bottle-neck.
Pr0n jokes are obligatory for this kind of story, read the manual.
News of faster internet made HIllary Rosen faint.
Someone shouted, "quick get some smelling salts".
Someone else said, "Here, use this sharpie marker."
Amsterdam and Alaska are separated by water, so I don't see how this can be a new land speed record, unless Jesus is involved.
Yeah, but how many Libraries of Congress is that? Until they release their accomplishment in Libraries-of-Congress-per-second, it means absolutely nothing to me, or anyone else. Right?
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
is over 8000 times greater than the fastest dial-up modem
;-). And the fastest car on earth goes 8000 times faster than I crawl! Next time let's compare it to at least DSL!
I just LOVE sem-relevant comparisons!
So close and yet so far from the world's perfect ID number
Napster on Internet 2? Damn these guys are quick!!!
"Debian Woody in less than two minutes"
Any woman will tell you waiting more than 90 seconds for a "Debian Woody" is unacceptable. My personal best is nearly 1/3 of that.
Its a joke..get it? No...RTFM
"Get them before they get....
They actually had it ready 2 weeks ago, but were unable to transfer the cd until they used a felt tip marker around the edge.
We all get along together like tornadoes and trailer parks.
http://www.internet2.edu
Why is a seperated network?
You think they are going to spend all that money on a serious research network only to let Joe Public use al, the bandwidth on pr0n?
"The new wave is not value-added; it's garbage-subtracted" - Esther Dyson, Dec 1994
Take a notice, that Internet2 project is right now only for universities and big companys... And right now - for testing pourpourses only...
Which examination are the pourpourses taking?
Good luck to all the pourpourses out there!!
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
Does anybody remember this urban legend?
There was a IT engineer based in London who was sacked because he couldn't get the ping rate between the London and N.Y.C. corporate offices below 20ms.......His boss didn't see the "speed of light" as a valid excuse!!
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
You are speaking theoretically.
Yes, you could send data much faster than this over fiber. We do it in labs all the time. HEck, we do it in networks over copper all the time (GigE..)
This is an actual working network, and they send the data from Alaska to The Netherlands at 400mbps. That is fantastic.