New Internet Speed Record

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday April 20, 2004 @04:52AM 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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Awsome.... by phillk6751 · 2004-04-20 04:53 · Score: -1, Redundant

...Just think of how much pr0n you could download with a pipe like that :-D
1. Re:Awsome.... by October_30th · 2004-04-20 05:02 · Score: 0, Redundant
  
  Just think of how much spam you could send with a pipe like that!
  
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Another Great Moment... by bcolflesh · 2004-04-20 04:53 · Score: -1, Redundant

...in Pron, er, Internet History!
A great achievement for Spam! by qualico · 2004-04-20 04:55 · Score: 1, Redundant

Thats great.

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

Oh Goody!
keeping up with the spammers by martin · 2004-04-20 04:56 · Score: 0, Redundant

At least all this new bandwidth will be useful for something :-)
1. Re:keeping up with the spammers by strictnein · 2004-04-20 05:08 · 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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I love by An-Unnecessarily-Lon · 2004-04-20 04:57 · Score: -1, Redundant

How 90% of us are just in love with the prospect of DL porn faster. I for one welcome our new bandwith overlords.
The first result we will see of this by AtariAmarok · 2004-04-20 04:58 · Score: -1, Redundant

The first result we will see of this is that higher bandwidth will mean many thousands of spams delivered per day instead of just a couple hundred in my inbox.

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