Internet speed record

[ShipWreck]

Thought this would be interesting for some of you d00ds


An international team has set new Internet2 Land Speed Records by transferring 1.1 terabytes of of data across 10,037 kilometers (more than 6,236 miles) of network in less than one hour. The mark of 23,888.06 terabit-meters/second represents an average rate of more than 2.3 gigabits per second and is equivalent to transferring a DVD movie every 23 seconds at speeds more than 9000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection.

The Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) competition for the highest-bandwidth, end-to-end networks is an open and ongoing contest.


thats some mean shit

[S.S.Lazer]

someday that will be a standard

[ShipWreck]

yeah, their saying by 2010 will most likely be 1gb per second speeds in homes

I think it will be a lot longer than that. The government has a long history of taking over the top rung of technology, only to release it to the general public after they've upgraded to the next big thing.

Considering recent reports have also shown that interest is waning in high speed conections at the consumer level, I don't see any companies rushing to provide people with internet connections much faster than with what we have now.

Originally posted by Cpl. Bingham
I think it will be a lot longer than that.

I'll have to agree with Bingham. It will happen, but it won't be 2010. Technologically, it will be there but it won't be commercially available.

At my last company we rolled out a 100 Mbps Internet connection for residential customers at a price only $15 more than our 1.5 MBps service. We only had one person that wanted it.

I figure it will be another 15 years. About the time the the current generation of net-kids starts looking at living on their own.