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World's Fastest Internet Transfer Rate?

Posted by Cliff on from the king-of-the-bandwidth-hill dept.

vrioux asks: "While browsing through available Internet service offerings in my area, I became puzzled by the large amount of different speed records that seem to have been achieved in the past months. Some say that 5.44Gbits was the fastest ever achieved, while others seem to think 923Mbits is still in the race. Is there anybody who really knows who holds the Internet transfer world speed record?"

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  1. truck by capoccia · · Score: 2, Insightful

    last i heard, a truck full of backup tapes was still faster than the internet.

  2. Who knows... by gtrubetskoy · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This is an ambigous question, and the articles cited aren't very clear either. It seems that both articles transferred data over very long distances, but still, I couldn't figure out from reading them what the main constraints were.

    An OC-192 SONET circuit is (IIRC) 9.6 Gbps and are used in lots of places.

    My guess is that they were referring to serial transmittion (i.e. one bit at a time - a "truck with tapes" wouldn't qualify) specifically across the atlantic, using existing circuits. Otherwise, those numbers don't sound like much of a record.

    It's entirely possible that these records are beat on routine bases by telco's/ISP's, perhaps they just don't necessarily care to disclose it.

  3. Only on the Internet? by rmohr02 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives.

  4. Re:What distance... by Fizzl · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well... How about reading the articles?

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