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BIC-TCP 6,000 Times Quicker Than DSL
An anonymous reader writes "North Carolina researchers have developed an Internet protocol, subsequently tested and affirmed by Stanford, that hums along at speeds roughly 6,000 times that of DSL. The system, called BIC-TCP, beat out competing protocols from Caltech, University College London and others. The results were announced at IEEE's annual communications confab in Hong Kong." Update: 03/16 04:46 GMT by T : ScienceBlog suggests this alternate link while their site is down.
Looks like the server just got Slashdotter 6,000 times faster than normal.
Use it to host your blog server..immediately? You've been slashdotted.
Nerd: I've developed a program that downloads porn from the interet a million times faster than normal
Marge: Who would need that much porn
Homer: [drools]...oohhh..1 million times faster..
$cat
There's 640 kbps DSL and there's 3 Mbps DSL...
I want it in LOC/sec.
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
That was my first thought. Isn't that like saying that they've invented gasoline that goes faster than a car?
Better yet, they've invented tires for the space shuttle that are capable of going 100k times faster than regular tires. I want some of those tires for my Pinto! They'll make it that much faster!
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thats what i was gonna say... last i heard DSL was physical connection method..
in other news AMD has developed a new architecture 80 billion times faster than grapefruit
Does it beat out AOL 9.0 Topspeed technology?
Every time you read this, I am going against my principles.
This becomes just another fast way to piss the RIAA off.
Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
I have developed a super fast car that is 6,000 times quicker than your driveway, an delicious orange that is 6,000 times tastier than your tongue and a new form of water that is 6,000 wetter than your garden hose!
Please send lots of money in the form of grants to
super inventor guy
123 fake street
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They've discovered gigabit Ethernet! Wow!
It's 6000x faster than MSN DSL, isn't it?
Wh47 d1d j00 541, 31337 15n't t3h r0xor5 ne m0r3???
Sure it will... provided you're not more than three feet from the central office.
Visualizations of the data? So what, are they gonna all smoke up and watch Rabbit-Hole or Smear while "analysing" the data?
I've invented a pen that can write 6000 times faster than a pencil.
(fine print: super human strength required, in order to reach maximum speed alterations of the laws of physics may be necessary.)
To be more exact, it's the bonfire system they used in Return of the King to signal to Rohan to come to Gondor.
It's called the Bonfire-Utilizing Light System Hardware Infrastructure Technology (aka BULSHIT).
Copper, Glass, Silicon and Pigeon
As we all know, pr0n drives the technology bubble. Indicate that the average luser could watch internet pr0n real time over a 56K modem and it's just a matter of time.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
You are correct sir. Thankfully, your correction of my own dumb mistake only made my original point more valid, so ... um ... LOOK! A BEAR!
Coming soon to Slashdot: meta-meta-moderation!
Is that going to make my grandma's grapefruit tree obsolete?
A mistake of this magnitude really calls for the removal of ALL of his geek-points, immediate surrender of any ssh keys, termination of all accounts on any non-windows machines, immediate discontinuation of WEP encryption, reversion to SSID "netgear", and unrestricted enablement of "File & Printer Sharing".
Unless he can demonstrate how a Honda can get more people somewhere than then the highway they now use... Well actually more like the license plate and turn signals on a honda but I'll let him off easy :)
Ever notice how the "Newest, High Speed Internet" is always being developed around particle accelerators? Maybe they really are trying to change the speed of light ;)
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." G.W.Bush
They jumped straight to ludicrous speed.
I want some of those tires for my Pinto! They'll make it that much faster!
:-)
Yeah, maybe you'll be able to out run the fire in your gas tank.
What?
"connects first time, every time."
What?
I'm more of a cup and string kind of guy! ;)
More than enough BS
there are protocols that are being used by the likes of cisco that make a 56k modem faster than broadband. Why is it not being implimented? The broadband companies need to make the money back from the investment in their infrastructure.
...and now Cisco has a "protocol" that makes a 56k modem faster than "broadband."
"Detroit" has a 100mpg carburetor that oil companies suppress to maintain price.
"Alternative" medicine is rejected by "Western" medicine to preserve medical monopolies.
Solar power if so cheap and efficient that it can easily provide for all our energy needs, but is prevented from being adopted to maintain "power company" profits.
Unions are the source of all progress but have been ruined by business.
NASA is an aerospace subsidy and ignores scientists to fund "big budget" projects like the Space Shuttle.
America hoards food that could eliminate starvation planet wide.
The media is controlled by any one of; corporate interests, right wing Christians or left wing socialists.
The Cold War was created to justify the "Military Industrial Complex."
Power lines, cell phones and chlorine are causing a cancer epidemic.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
My /dev/null is still faster in uploads.
"I think this line is mostly filler"
Now my ISP Can shut me down for abusing Bandwidth after about 30 seconds......
No. Unlike this, the Kessel Run can be explained in a way that makes sense.
40 Megasiemens? Don't you also need to know the capacitance and inductance of the connection in order to figure out the ping time from that?
Support SETI@home
or 186282.397 miles per second. Thank you very much.
Irony == a website about speeding up internet traffic burning through all their bandwidth and having to shut down.
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"That way you'll be able to make better use of fat pipes when you can finally get them."
According to an email I received today they are already available and no prescription is required.
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The only pity is that we're going to have all this stuff a really stunningly long time after they promise it to us. Big corporations treat us like battered spouses, they really do. At least when they plant a shiner on us it's a walkman or a big screen TV or something. But i'm looking forward to being able to download at 2.4GBps (aggregate). When the 8.9TB holo-video discs come out, I'll be glad to be able to download the 6.2TB rip in a reasonable period of time.
I bet the latest geforce is still going to cost more than the whole rest of my damned system, though :(
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
www.scienceblog.com/community/article2473.html Bandwidth Limit Exceeded The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. Apache/1.3.29 Server at www.scienceblog.com Port 80 oh the irony
Yep, or as it popped into my mind "You've never heard of the Millenium Falcon? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs"
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
When you CAN rent something over 6 Gbps, and you want to routinely use it all for a single TCP connection
Dude, my computer can barely talk to my ram that fast . . . . I don't need the next paris hilton video quite that quickly.
Lucky you. My coffeemaker consumes electricity.
Virus infects both Windows and Linux!