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Net Speed Record Smashed

BrianWCarver writes "The BBC is reporting that scientists have set a new internet speed record by transferring 6.7 gigabytes of data (the equivalent of 4 hours of DVD-quality movies) across 10,978 kilometres (6,800 miles), from Sunnyvale in the US to Amsterdam in Holland, in less than one minute. Average speed: more than 923 megabits per second, or more than 3,500 times faster than a typical home broadband connection. The data was sent across the Internet2 network. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (Slac) Computer Services participated in the record-breaking event. Slac has an interest in such high-speed transfers as they have accumulated the largest known database in the world, which grows at one terabyte per day."

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  1. EKROUT HAS COME BACK WITH A VENGENCE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. a great day. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is a great day for the Pornography business. I'm guessing the next goal of the pornography business is to hack in to the I2 network.

  3. Re:Data used to expand to fit your disk... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Listen you little pansy boy, I ever find you, and I'll make fucking certain that my spam expands to fill your pipe, and then some! You got that Muthafucka?

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    Fuck you.

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