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New Internet Speed Record
Himanshu writes "Researchers have set a new data transmission record over the Internet2's high-speed backbone.
The new record announced Tuesday at the Spring 2004 Internet2 member meeting in Arlington, Va., was for transmitting data over nearly 11,000 kilometers at an average speed of 6.25 gigabits per second. This is nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection. The network link used to set the record spans from Los Angeles to Geneva, Switzerland."
Where do I sign up?
This brings a whole new meaning to "Downloading the Internet".
Finally, the Internet will be able to compete on a level playing field in terms of bandwidth with carrier pigeons. :)
--- JRJ
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If that happens, imagine the DDoS power from a group of infected Windows boxes.
Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
now maybe i'll get a first post...
In order to carry the immense increasing volume of spam...
I bet they probably hit their undocumented bandwidth usage limit and will be getting a nasty letter from their service provider telling them to knock it off! :)
I could fill my 250 gig drive with pr0n in 3 seconds!
Be who you are and say what you feel, because the people who mind don't matter, and the people who matter don't mind.
... but you have to have equipment capable of handling it. I know that there's certainly not anything existing that could make full use of a pipe that big... so I think everyone should keep their porn fantasies in check.
Anyone else read "Large Hadron Collider" as "Large Hardon Collider"?
Zowie!
How many Libraries of Congress per second is it?
The truth about Scientology, Xenu, and you: Operation Clambake
What's really impressive about this is is that one third of that was spam.
Now I can transfer my life savings from my bank in LA to my private Swiss bank account in .00000000001 seconds!
Next item on the palm pilot....
Proudly supporting the Libertarian Party.
Is anyone offering dial-up and shells for Internet2? I'm tired of the Internet1.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Yeah, but the swiss don't want you there. LA population decimated by malicious routing to /dev/null. Film at Eleven.
pushing the latest bootleg of kill-bill 2.. Nothing to see here, move along.
or Internet++
Yes, Jack Valenti, not only does this mean more downloading of pirated movies, it brings us closer to the day when the average 13-year old with an average computer will be able to download all of Hollywood in less than 45 minutes. Sleep while you can, Jack.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
That's over 66000 reloads of the front page every second.
Yes, I'm ignoring the obvious latency, but we can only dream.
is how many seconds until it's slashdotted.
In Soviet Russia, the internet downloads YOU.
(couldn't help it...I haven't seen any good ones recently)
"This is nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection."
However for $19.99 you can get unlimited dial-up access on Internet2 which is only 5000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection.
> Just think of how much pr0n you could download with a pipe like that.
If your pipe was that big, you wouldn't _need_ porn.
Norman Cook's Ode to Sl
I mean, my laptop can only do Gigabit Ethernet. Will all of that data just kind of smush up on the other side of the wall until it bursts the wire?
I have misplaced my pants.
Judging by the rate of increase in my broadband connection's speed over the last 5 years, it'll be about 5 or 6 thousand years before it catches up to these speeds.
Free yourself. Everything else will follow.
Microsoft calls it Internet#
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Now we can Slashdot websites even FASTER!
With a little experimenting, I found that 7 DVDs stack to a height of exactly 1 cm. The diameter of a dVD is 12 cm (radius = .06).
.01 = .0000161 cubic meters
.0000161 cubic meters/dvd = 140061.6601 DVDs
Volume of a DVD = pi * r^2 * h = 3.141 * (.06)^2 * 1/7 *
The volume of a large SUV:
"With rear seats folded 5-pass: 86.2, 7-pass: 79.9"
79 cubic feet is 2.26251604 cubic meters
2.26251604 cubic meters /
4.37 gigs / DVD * 140061.6601 DVDs = 612069.4546 gigs in one carload
Throughput speed = Data / (setup time + transmit time)
Assume a one-way transmission, one mile down the road. Assume the DVDs are packed in such a way so that loading the time spent loading the van is negigible (they're boxed well). Therefore, setup time ~= 0. Assume the van drives at an average speed of 60 mph.
1 mile / 60 mph = 60 seconds
612069.4546 gigs / 60 seconds = 10201.15758 gigs / second.
10201 >> 6.5 gigs per second. Sneakernet wins.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
6 GB/s downloads...but still only 128kb/s uploads...
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
...RIAA lawsuit?
Maybe you need the Einstein probe to cool them.
A highlight:
"To ensure accuracy, the balls must be kept chilled to near absolute zero, inside the largest vacuum flask ever flown in space and isolated from any disturbances in the quietest environment ever produced".
The owls are not what they seem
And to download the Windows 2014 Service Pack 2
Its not what it is, its something else.
In early 1994, I introduced the concept of the "Porn Barrier" as a way to measure bandwidth.
The Porn Barrier is breached when a home broadband connection can download porn faster than you consume it.
For many people, a simple broadband connection has already passed their Porn Barrier, and I congratulate them.
However, after years of caffiene, video games, and desensitation via usenet and other sources, my personal Porn Barrier is still well beyond current home bandwidth availability.
This article gives me hope that one day, I too shall know the joys of passing my own Porn Barrier in the privacy of my own home.
Maybe then I can finally put that regretful day in the campus computer lab behind me, aside from the fact that I'm legally required to register when I move so that the police can notify my neighbors.
The future is bright!
I'm in San Jose, CA and can't even get broadband!!!
That depends. How long does it take you to drive from LA to Switzerland in that station wagon? I hope you remembered to pack your swimming trunks for that drive.
I read the internet for the articles.
Question: If that tree falls in the forest does it make a sound?
Answer: Yes, the sound would be. "Is our internet connection down?"
"Within minutes of breaking the Internet speed record the elated researchers moved their entire DivX collection into a mysterious folder titled 'My Shared Folder', and began slapping high fives."
"When asked to explain their actions, the researchers only comment was 'Free pr0n!! Free pr0n!!' The exact meaning of this phrase is not yet known. -AP"
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It's TAPES. Backup TAPES.
As often as this joke goes around, the funny part is that everytime I see it, it's been mangled in a new way...
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
It CAN'T can't have
So.. it can?
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
I should hope I'm not on Internet2. It was letting commoners like me on the first one that ruined it.