New World Record for Internet Performance Set
Posted by ValentinSimion on 05 September 2004 - 09:34 · 64 comments & 7491 views
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#1 Posted by eckocx on 05 Sep 2004 - 09:46
- Slow.. o/
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#1.2 Posted by tiagosilva29 on 05 Sep 2004 - 15:46
- Feh, it's only the internet2...
I have internet6x10^23, why should I just download songs, when I can download the band?
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#1.3 Posted by The Napster on 05 Sep 2004 - 17:56
- LoL
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#2 Posted by vbagaria on 05 Sep 2004 - 09:47
- damn
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#3 Posted by Alien Venom on 05 Sep 2004 - 09:49
- Looks like (pardon the pun) the speed of light is slowing us down. Must... find...something...faster!
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#3.1 Posted by Darkness2k on 05 Sep 2004 - 20:44
- "My.. God... Peter, I've... Never.. Felt... So... Alive!"
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#4 Posted by Alistero on 05 Sep 2004 - 09:58
- awsome, can't wait for servers with connection speeds like that
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#5 Posted by Avi on 05 Sep 2004 - 10:30
- And I'm still stuck with 640KBits/s.
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#5.1 Posted by SIG on 05 Sep 2004 - 10:48
- Well, I wouldn't mind being "stuck" with 640kbps. I'm still in 128kbps
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#5.4 Posted by SoLiD_MasteR on 05 Sep 2004 - 18:19
- 320 here
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#5.6 Posted by PsykX on 06 Sep 2004 - 05:49
- 4.2 MBPS here, it's an average cable in Montreal. It's not fair!!!! I demand better!
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#5.7 Posted by Zirus1701 on 06 Sep 2004 - 06:29
- There is a cable company here in my town offering 3mbps, for the same price as my 1.5mbps line. Too bad I'm 3 miles outside their range
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#5.8 Posted by Spitfire_x86 on 07 Sep 2004 - 03:46
- And I'm stuck with 33.6k
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#6 Posted by PanicButton on 05 Sep 2004 - 10:47
- Pings should be intresting.
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#6.1 Posted by nexx on 05 Sep 2004 - 12:01
- Like when they find a way to transfer faster than the speed of light..mm..negative pings...
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#6.3 Posted by Capiora on 05 Sep 2004 - 14:14
- easy, if the ping replies faster than the computer can see it, the ping becomes negative cause the speed of light is based on the time, and so is the ping and the data will be faster than the time, therefore traveling to the future, so negative pings will be the ping signal you have yet to recieve... :p altough this is pure theoretical, it will just be 0,0.... ...0001, cause you just can't move faster than the speed of light or it will transform into energy and move at exactly the speed of light, but its still very impressive
for more information, contact Einstein
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#6.6 Posted by shao on 05 Sep 2004 - 17:46
QUOTE PS : i'm not responsible for any errors made against the laws of physics in this comment
kind of a good job really, otherwise you'd look like an idiot.
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#7 Posted by Netrack on 05 Sep 2004 - 15:36
- where do i sign up for this internet ?
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#8 Posted by webdenis12 on 05 Sep 2004 - 17:40
- ok when we can sign up
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#9 Posted by [ timko ] on 05 Sep 2004 - 17:55
- I wish I could download pr0n at those speeds
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#9.1 Posted by The Napster on 05 Sep 2004 - 17:58
- Or stream at Cinema quality... imagine the posibilities
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#9.2 Posted by edgrale on 05 Sep 2004 - 17:59
- Remember kids, the faster you download porn - the bigger your penis is.
I think that was a modified commercial I saw somewhere on the net
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#9.3 Posted by The Napster on 05 Sep 2004 - 18:02
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I gotta wach more P0rn
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#10 Posted by nic on 05 Sep 2004 - 18:35
- Shoot, my hard disk can't write that fast, yet.
They must be using some seriously high performance data collectors too!
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#10.1 Posted by Lowdown on 05 Sep 2004 - 19:00
- I was thinking the same thing. That's cool they can send at that speed but how are they storing all that information at that same speed? I don't think there is anything that fast yet, is there?
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#10.3 Posted by insurektion on 05 Sep 2004 - 19:51
- raid would mabye get you up to 120 mb/s with the 4 drives running raid 0 (or whatevr split 4 ways) but im thinking insanely fast flash memory.
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#11 Posted by Sn1p3t on 05 Sep 2004 - 20:02
- My University is connected to Internet2. Only been here a few weeks so I haven't had a chance to see it in action
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#11.2 Posted by hotrod on 05 Sep 2004 - 22:21
- we've had Internet2 for a while. noone really uses it that much. it's a seperate connection from your standard internet. when you download stuff off the web, you won't be using Internet2. it's a standalone connection that only connects you to other universities and such. so in other words, you can't download your pr0n on it
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#11.3 Posted by noyb on 06 Sep 2004 - 00:50
- Well at least you can still share porn at faster speeds.
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#12 Posted by cesardrgn on 05 Sep 2004 - 20:20
- Now that's what i call speed....
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#13 Posted by thenay on 05 Sep 2004 - 21:05
- When do u think this will become public? I heard about this Internet2 now for years.. lol
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#13.1 Posted by T-Metal on 05 Sep 2004 - 21:58
- I have no idea, but I think it will be a while before it goes public, unfortunately.
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#13.2 Posted by Sn1p3t on 06 Sep 2004 - 02:23
- Internet2 is not meant for the genearl public. That doesnt mean they won't utilize it later for the public, but you as a consume won't be getting those speeds ;P
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#14 Posted by matahei on 05 Sep 2004 - 23:34
- I'm from tahiti, here we have 128k for 132.00$ and we are limited up to 4Go (upload and download) per month.
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#15 Posted by Kushan on 06 Sep 2004 - 00:21
QUOTE Remember kids, the faster you download porn - the bigger your penis is.
Time for some math....
6.63 * 1024 = 6789.21Mbit/s
6789.21 * 1024 = 6952058.88 Kbit/s
Now, lets say an average Penis is 7Inches and an average connection is 512Kbit/s, that means the guys who build this connection have a cumulative penis size of...95047.68inches.....
It's the end of the world I tells ya!
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#16 Posted by Devlin on 06 Sep 2004 - 01:04
- This just goes to show you that they are gonna bleed us dry of all our cash for the speeds of broadband today, which in my opion are getting so poor on cable it's like the NEW DIAL UP. just a little *not enough* for me anyways. They give you just enough to hang yourself with so you want more and more speed which in my opinion
we should all be getting atleast bettween 3 or 5mb up and down for the 39.99 I pay anyone who needs more is obviously running more than his or her own personal pc for recreation and some at home work consisting of EMAIL ect ect ect. Yet we will all pay through the nose for the next 5 years or so then they will up the speed to maybe 3mb which of course on cable ( the broadband sharring network) will be the actuall equivilent of the actual 1.5 your paying for today!
Man what a rant wonder where it came from
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#17 Posted by Devlin on 06 Sep 2004 - 01:04
- This just goes to show you that they are gonna bleed us dry of all our cash for the speeds of broadband today, which in my opion are getting so poor on cable it's like the NEW DIAL UP. just a little *not enough* for me anyways. They give you just enough to hang yourself with so you want more and more speed which in my opinion
we should all be getting atleast bettween 3 or 5mb up and down for the 39.99 I pay anyone who needs more is obviously running more than his or her own personal pc for recreation and some at home work consisting of EMAIL ect ect ect. Yet we will all pay through the nose for the next 5 years or so then they will up the speed to maybe 3mb which of course on cable ( the broadband sharring network) will be the actuall equivilent of the actual 1.5 your paying for today!
Man what a rant wonder where it came from
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#17.1 Posted by Zeni on 06 Sep 2004 - 01:51
- The magical land of Double Posting, where you're the King and all must listen, lest you post it again!
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#18 Posted by larsonyo on 06 Sep 2004 - 04:21
- Yay! My cable company just upped my speed to 4Mbit down / 512 up
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#19 Posted by bush on 06 Sep 2004 - 08:16
- well.. that's kinda fast. but i'm wondering why am i still living with pathetic 2 mb/sec
Ann Arbor, Mich. – September 1, 2004 – An international team has broken their own record and set a new Internet2(R) Land Speed Record by transferring 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes across nearly 16,000 kilometers of networks at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second, about 10,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection. The record was set by a team consisting of members from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CERN using the same IPv4 protocols deployed throughout the global Internet
The Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) is an open and ongoing competition for the highest-bandwidth, end-to-end networks, with judging based on the speed of transfer multiplied by the distance traveled. Because of delays due to the speed of light and other factors, data transfer over the Internet becomes more challenging as speed, or distance, or both increase. With a mark of more than 104.5 petabit-meters per second, this record is the first time the 100 "petabump" performance threshold has been broken.
The 11 console titles--all sequels--that the research predicts will sell more than 1 million units each and will dominate holiday sales are as follows:
•Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Take-Two, PS2)
•Halo 2 (Microsoft, Xbox)
•Madden NFL 2005 (Electronic Arts, PS2)
•Need for Speed Underground 2 (Electronic Arts, PS2)
•Gran Turismo 4 (SCEA, PS2)
•Spider-Man 2 (Activision, PS2)
•Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (Activision, PS2)
•Pokémon LeafGreen (Nintendo, GBA)
•Pokémon FireRed (Nintendo, GBA)
•Metal Gear Solid 3 (Konami, PS2)
•Mortal Kombat: Deception (Midway, PS2)
Wedbush Morgan predicts that during 2004, 218 million pieces of software will be sold in total, skewed such that an astonishing 114 million of them will be moved during the final three months of the year. In addition, the report closes with in-depth looks at six of the major third-party publishers and recommendations for investors (giving a "Buy" rating to Take-Two, Activision, Atari, and Electronic Arts and a "Hold" rating to Midway and THQ).
While today's report focused on the console and handheld sectors, the document briefly alluded to three PC games thought capable of driving sales of a million or more before the end of the calendar year. Those would be Doom 3 (Activision), the upcoming The Sims 2.0 (Electronic Arts), and "November’s" release of Half-Life 2 (VU Games). "We expect the total unit sales for the 11 console/handheld million unit SKUs plus the three PC million unit SKUs to exceed 30 million units in calendar 2004," said Wedbush analysts Michael Pachter and Edward Woo in today's report.
Dice says: I feel this analyst is correct, do you?