Internet speed record smashed

MadDoctor · Post by **MadDoctor** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 10:15 am

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/0 ... index.html

The team was able to transfer uncompressed data at 923 megabits per second for 58 seconds from Sunnyvale, California, to Amsterdam, Netherlands. That's about 3,500 times faster than a typical Internet broadband connection. The record could not have been achieved without “tweaking assistance” from SpeedGuide.net. Our heartfelt thanks to everyone at SpeedGuide.

MadDoctor · Post by **MadDoctor** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 10:16 am

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 10:26 am

Ohhhh....front page material!

Thanks Mad.......we're even...

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Fri Mar 07, 2003 10:34 am

Fiber Optics is my friend on daily bases.

2 DVD movies of equivalent data transfered in under a minute.

I can see it now...

and for a low, low price of $55,500 a month. lol

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 11:35 am

Originally posted by Joint Chiefs Of Staff
Fiber Optics is my friend on daily bases.

2 DVD movies of equivalent data transfered in under a minute.

I can see it now...

and for a low, low price of $55,500 a month. lol

only?! I'm getting two lines.... woo woo!

btw... maddoc lied! no speedguide mentioned on it!!

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 3:25 pm

"The team was able to transfer PORN data at 923 megabits per second for 58 seconds from Sunnyvale, California, to Amsterdam, Netherlands. That's about 3,500 times faster than a typical Internet broadband connection. "

wow

Sgt Pepper · Post by **Sgt Pepper** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 3:27 pm

Originally posted by tHE_0ne
"The team was able to transfer PORN data at 923 megabits per second for 58 seconds from Sunnyvale, California, to Amsterdam, Netherlands. That's about 3,500 times faster than a typical Internet broadband connection. "

wow

I'm sure Brent would be interested in this

Hopeful · Post by **Hopeful** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 3:33 pm

daaaaaang

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 3:50 pm

Not that it isn't a great achievement, but such a high speed connection would obviously be of little use to the average joe user. As no pc would be able to write the data fast enough to fully utilize such a connection. I guess that's why they are touting this sort of connection for universities and hospitals as they can afford the massive data centers required for this type of connection.

binksfan · Post by **binksfan** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 4:05 pm

Did they also thank Al Gore for inventing the internet and making it possible for them to achieve these amazing speeds?

Sgt Pepper · Post by **Sgt Pepper** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 4:08 pm

Originally posted by binksfan
Did they also thank Al Gore for inventing the internet and making it possible for them to achieve these amazing speeds?

Those internet speeds are almost as fast as the weight gain ole' Al experienced after the election...

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 5:18 pm

Originally posted by agentbeast
Not that it isn't a great achievement, but such a high speed connection would obviously be of little use to the average joe user. As no pc would be able to write the data fast enough to fully utilize such a connection. I guess that's why they are touting this sort of connection for universities and hospitals as they can afford the massive data centers required for this type of connection.

Actually there is a benefit.....How about streaming HDTV content? Of course that's more than what would be needed but imagine your ISP service also supplying HDTV movies....Over DSL and thirty miles from the hub.

Zilog B · Post by **Zilog B** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 5:26 pm

Originally posted by Sgt. Pepper
Those internet speeds are almost as fast as the weight gain ole' Al experienced after the election...

LOL OUCH!

torsten · Post by **torsten** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 5:32 pm

Might this eventually undermine those who are perpetually inflating (lying about) the "cost" of bandwidth?

OxBlooD · Post by **OxBlooD** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 8:12 pm

Fiber- Optic Broadband + Kazaa = Pwnage

Indy · Post by **Indy** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 8:14 pm

Originally posted by OxBlooD
Fiber- Optic Broadband + Kazaa = Pwnage

I loooove Kazaa...it's an easy money maker for us...customer calls in, complaining of slow speeds...I go out, turn off their Kazaa that has 27 uploads in progress, and charge them $49.95 for the truck roll

mwkirchner · Post by **mwkirchner** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 8:45 pm

one word ... WOW!

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 9:47 pm

Originally posted by Indy
I loooove Kazaa...it's an easy money maker for us...customer calls in, complaining of slow speeds...I go out, turn off their Kazaa that has 27 uploads in progress, and charge them $49.95 for the truck roll

how do u sleep at night....

heheh.... prolly quite happy and comfortably eh?

p2ii · Post by **p2ii** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 9:55 pm

The team was able to transfer uncompressed BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER re-runs at 923 megabits per second for 58 seconds from Sunnyvale, California, to Amsterdam, Netherlands. That's about 3,500 times faster than a typical Internet broadband connection.

OMG! Brent you need to get in on this!

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Sat Mar 08, 2003 3:28 pm

Originally posted by downhill
Actually there is a benefit.....How about streaming HDTV content? Of course that's more than what would be needed but imagine your ISP service also supplying HDTV movies....Over DSL and thirty miles from the hub.

True, but I was refering to the connection actually going to someone's house and connecting it up to their PC as some other people suggested and using it to download porn DVD's and other types of things

using it for that they'd never realise the full potential of the connection as the current pc storage media would never be able to write that fast unless they had a enormous amount of RAM to cache it in before writing it to disk.

Now talking about streaming media which is a sort of read it and forget it type of a deal largely memory and CPU intensive then you'd be able to use the connection to it's fullest.