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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. Yeah how do you measure this? by mnmn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can put two desktop machines with good frontside busses side by side, and use etherchannel using the new 10gbit ethernet chips by Intel, and you theoretically have 20gbit. I'm pretty sure upper-end Juniper and cisco ATM switches can do it much better using loadbalancing of interfaces.

    So do two systems side by side and connected to the net qualify as 'across the Internet', or is the rule to use only standard consumer ISPs?

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