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New Internet Speed Record

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-a-lot-a-nekkid dept.

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."

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  1. A great achievement for Spam! by qualico · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Thats great.

    Now I can get my VIagra and Nigeria investments sent to me a lot faster!

    Oh Goody!

  2. keeping up with the spammers by martin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    At least all this new bandwidth will be useful for something :-)

    1. Re:keeping up with the spammers by strictnein · · Score: 0, Redundant

      Amazing... both you and the poster above you posted the same link... you guys brothers? or lovers? or psychic twins?

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  3. Re:Awsome.... by October_30th · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Just think of how much spam you could send with a pipe like that!

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