1000 megabytes/second?

[SureGuy]

Well... a difference of x 8.

8x is a pretty big difference. I'd hate to find out I was actually only earning 1/8th of what I had initially been told :p

[col_sandurz]

there is NO such thing as a gigaBYTE a second. I get 3 megabits, not megabytes. I suggest calling them back and telling them that there is no such thing as anything near that speed.

I believe optical connections can handle more than a GB/s. OC-256 is about 13Gb/s or 1.6 GB/s. They use light that travels through a tube, this is possible because of something called total internal reflection where the light hits the inside of the tubing at an angle above a specific degree and can keep doing this until it gets to where its going.

[Blackout]

there is NO such thing as a gigaBYTE a second. I get 3 megabits, not megabytes. I suggest calling them back and telling them that there is no such thing as anything near that speed.

Yes there is. However, coaxial cable/broadband connections are not capable of such speeds. Only fiber is.

[El_Cu_Guy]

Internet backbones barley run at 1Gbit/s, let alone 1GByte/s!!

OC-24, 1.244 Gbps, Optical fiber, Internet backbone

SciNet, 2.325 Gbps (15 OC-3 lines), Optical fiber, Part of the vBNS backbone

OC-48/STM-16, 2.488 Gbps, Optical fiber, Internet backbone

OC-192/STM-64, 10 Gbps, Optical fiber, Backbone

OC-256, 13.271 Gbps, Optical fiber, Backbone

Yes there is. However, coaxial cable/broadband connections are not capable of such speeds. Only fiber is.

That's a technology-dependent theory. It also does not take into account that cable is a shared medium.

[Bushrat]

not possible the lady telling you that is nuts.

It was most likely 100mb a second. Its designed for networks, not for personal use.