New Internet Speed Record

[D-Bone]

When can I have this fast of a connection at home??? Check this out:
<blockquote>GENEVA - Researchers have more than doubled the world speed record for internet data transfer.

Scientists at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Switzerland sent the equivalent of a full-length DVD movie in about seven seconds.

Colleagues at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received the data.

The land record was set on Oct. 1 by transferring 1.1 terabytes of data over a 7,000-kilometre link in less than 30 minutes, the team said.

The average transfer rate was 5.44 gigabits per second (Gbps), which broke the previous record of 2.38 Gbps ? more than 20,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection.</blockquote>

Full story can be found here: http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/10/17/net_speed031017

[Malice]

Well dude, all you need to do is pay for a 10Gbps fiber link from your PC to the closest backbone and your all set! Shouldn't cost too much, only a couple of mil maybe?

[Kyraath]

don't forget the monthly maintenance fee on that also. That's where those jackasses really stick it to you :wink:

[Ghost]

Or the fact that the local backbone won't be able to even push at 1 gbps. That record was probably set with OC-192 or some other ungodly connection. And it was probably only linking 2-3 sites anyway. Damn those particle physicists!

[Kyraath]

well, if we're limited to the number of sites, maybe we should get them to set it up between, co springs, fort collins, GA, and craphole (also known as greeley :wink:) and we could give them some good test results. :mrgreen:

[Malice]

I'm game, I'll need a grant though for the HW cause I'm a student and all.

[Kyraath]

Well yeah, I agree, maybe we can get funding from both of our schools