New Internet2 Land Speed Record

New Internet2 Land Speed Record 338

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:18PM from the infinite-bandwidth-now dept.

SquadBoy writes "An international team set a new record for Internet performance by transferring the equivalent of an entire compact disc's contents across more than 7608 miles (12,272 km) of network in 13 seconds. The rate of 401 megabits per second achieved in transferring 625 megabytes of data from Fairbanks, Alaska to Amsterdam in the Netherlands is over 8000 times greater than the fastest dial-up modem."

New Internet2 Land Speed Record

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In other news... (Score:5, Funny)

by dada21 ( 163177 ) writes: <adam.dada@gmail.com> on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:22PM (#3569063) Homepage Journal

The RIAA and MPAA have both come out proclaiming Hayes' new 4800 baud modem with MNP5 as the best connection system possible, and are subsidizing the conversion from broadband to these hardware devices with a $50 rebate until the end of the year.

It has to be said... (Score:5, Funny)

by bravehamster ( 44836 ) writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:22PM (#3569066) Homepage Journal

747 chock full o' DVD's can beat that any day of the week. That includes a 4 hour layover in Osaka.

Obligatory Simpsons Quote: (Score:5, Funny)

by Navius Eurisko ( 322438 ) writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:22PM (#3569067)

Marge: "Does anyone need that much porn?"

Homer (drooling): "One million times faster...."

Darn... (Score:4, Funny)

by errorlevel ( 415281 ) writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:22PM (#3569068) Homepage

Suddenly my DSL no longer seems fast enough.

Heh (Score:0, Funny)

by ObviousGuy ( 578567 ) writes: <ObviousGuy@hotmail.com> on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:25PM (#3569081) Homepage Journal

Shit, I passed for than that this morning.

Damn Montezuma!

wow (Score:5, Funny)

by teslatug ( 543527 ) writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:29PM (#3569108)

Finally finding the pr0n becomes the bottle-neck.

Pr0n jokes are obligatory for this kind of story, read the manual.

at the RIAA headquaters... (Score:5, Funny)

by DanThe1Man ( 46872 ) writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:30PM (#3569117)

News of faster internet made HIllary Rosen faint.

Someone shouted, "quick get some smelling salts".
Someone else said, "Here, use this sharpie marker."

Record broken again 30 seconds later (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:31PM (#3569127)

...when they realised it was Britney Spears' latest album, they sent it straight back even faster.

Land Speed Record (Score:5, Funny)

by yobbo ( 324595 ) writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:33PM (#3569141)

Amsterdam and Alaska are separated by water, so I don't see how this can be a new land speed record, unless Jesus is involved.

LOC? (Score:5, Funny)

by sean23007 ( 143364 ) writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:35PM (#3569149) Homepage Journal

Yeah, but how many Libraries of Congress is that? Until they release their accomplishment in Libraries-of-Congress-per-second, it means absolutely nothing to me, or anyone else. Right?

Re:Heh (Score:2, Funny)

by ObviousGuy ( 578567 ) writes: <ObviousGuy@hotmail.com> on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:35PM (#3569152) Homepage Journal

Hmm... Someone found a computer I logged into...

Please mod down. (this one too)

Beats sending a hard copy any day (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:43PM (#3569195)

Strap a CD to a hypersonic jet travelling at 944,000 m/s and what have you got? Well... nothing really, it would burn up in the atmosphere.

Statistics Schmastics (Score:5, Funny)

by aengblom ( 123492 ) writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:50PM (#3569245) Homepage

is over 8000 times greater than the fastest dial-up modem

I just LOVE sem-relevant comparisons! ;-). And the fastest car on earth goes 8000 times faster than I crawl! Next time let's compare it to at least DSL!

Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:52PM (#3569252)

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From the Article (Score:5, Funny)

by Quizme2000 ( 323961 ) writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:52PM (#3569254) Homepage Journal

"Debian Woody in less than two minutes"

Any woman will tell you waiting more than 90 seconds for a "Debian Woody" is unacceptable. My personal best is nearly 1/3 of that.

Its a joke..get it? No...RTFM

Old news! (Score:5, Funny)

by chuckcolby ( 170019 ) writes: <chuck@noSPam.rnoc.net> on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:53PM (#3569259) Homepage

They actually had it ready 2 weeks ago, but were unable to transfer the cd until they used a felt tip marker around the edge.

Re:Internet2 (Score:4, Funny)

by FyRE666 ( 263011 ) writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:53PM (#3569264) Homepage

Take a notice, that Internet2 project is right now only for universities and big companys... And right now - for testing pourpourses only...

Which examination are the pourpourses taking?

Good luck to all the pourpourses out there!!

I work there and... (Score:3, Funny)

by RumGunner ( 457733 ) writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @07:55PM (#3569271) Homepage

I don't think anybody at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks even knew this was happening. I think those crazy Dutch just slurped down the image from our local linux mirror (which is maintained by our LUG).

It seems sort of bad form. The mirror is there for everyone, but bandwidth for the sake of bandwidth....

And now of course, EVERYONE will start trying to see how fast they can suck down our bandwidth. I bet my internet connection at work is terrible tomorrow.

WOW!! Imagine the time I could save! (Score:2, Funny)

by Baka*Exp 2 ( 581017 ) writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @08:00PM (#3569297)

I'd hit my monthly DL limit in under 10 minutes :-( What would I do for the rest of the month?

The guy that got sacked (again) (Score:5, Funny)

by reality-bytes ( 119275 ) writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @08:07PM (#3569331) Homepage

Does anybody remember this urban legend?

There was a IT engineer based in London who was sacked because he couldn't get the ping rate between the London and N.Y.C. corporate offices below 20ms.......His boss didn't see the "speed of light" as a valid excuse!!

What's even faster is.. (Score:2, Funny)

by Frank of Earth ( 126705 ) writes: <frank AT fperkins DOT com> on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @08:14PM (#3569353) Homepage Journal

.. how fast Al Gore will take credit for inventing the Internet2 also.

Re:Ping rate? (Score:5, Funny)

by edrugtrader ( 442064 ) writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @08:15PM (#3569354) Homepage

lets just say you've lost before your computer even boots up

Re:It has to be said... (Score:4, Funny)

by Bios_Hakr ( 68586 ) writes: <xptical@gmEEEail.com minus threevowels> on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @08:42PM (#3569459)

Yeah, but GODDAMN at the FUCKIN' LAG

Re:It has to be said... (Score:2, Funny)

by ragnarok ( 6947 ) writes: on Wednesday May 22, 2002 @08:59PM (#3569542)

Now if you used a WRX [imprezawrx.com] instead of that Outback, you should be able to substantially reduce your latency :)

Damn (Score:2, Funny)

by kraf ( 450958 ) writes: on Thursday May 23, 2002 @05:20AM (#3571064)

With the Internet2 I could download those looped Scorpion King trailers disguised as AOTC 8000 times faster !

Damn! (Score:2, Funny)

by Jonny Balls ( 543700 ) writes: on Thursday May 23, 2002 @02:13PM (#3574047) Homepage

Thats faster than Yo mama chasing after crack

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In other news... (Score:5, Funny)

It has to be said... (Score:5, Funny)

Obligatory Simpsons Quote: (Score:5, Funny)

Darn... (Score:4, Funny)

Heh (Score:0, Funny)

wow (Score:5, Funny)

at the RIAA headquaters... (Score:5, Funny)

Record broken again 30 seconds later (Score:2, Funny)

Land Speed Record (Score:5, Funny)

LOC? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Heh (Score:2, Funny)

Beats sending a hard copy any day (Score:1, Funny)

Statistics Schmastics (Score:5, Funny)

Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

From the Article (Score:5, Funny)

Old news! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Internet2 (Score:4, Funny)

I work there and... (Score:3, Funny)

WOW!! Imagine the time I could save! (Score:2, Funny)

The guy that got sacked (again) (Score:5, Funny)

What's even faster is.. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Ping rate? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:It has to be said... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:It has to be said... (Score:2, Funny)

Damn (Score:2, Funny)

Damn! (Score:2, Funny)

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