http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 01,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most commercially-available broadband connections operate at a speed of 2 megabits per second (2Mb/s), but the Shoreditch project can access internet images and content at a speed of up to 2 billions of bits per second (2Gb/s).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We will soon start to feel a little like this little fella.

 

 

 

World's fastest internet will send Britannica to Shoreditch in 7 sec

 

 

 

By Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BRITISH-designed internet system promises to break the ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬Åfour-minute mileÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬ÃâÃ

Wow, bandwidth is gonna have to get a whole lot cheaper tho lol. can you imagine a DoS attack using a connection like that? lol

I was under the impression that there was some setup in Hong Kong or whatever that had them capable of sending data at 10gb/s or something.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll try and see where I read that again - I think it was just aplha hardware or whatever :-?

I thought asia has 70mbps as the fastest speeds?

It depends what you call commercial, my university has a 10Gbit connection and they didn't make it themselves (bought from NTL).

I thought asia has 70mbps as the fastest speeds?

And once again my memory has outed me :x

 

 

 

http://www.convergedigest.com/Bandwidth ... p?ID=14545

I was most interested with this part.

 

 

 

It found that computer users were addicted to a small number of ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬ÅsupersitesÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬ÃâÃ

Yep, i only use about a dozen different sites mainly.

2mbits is faster than anything ive ever seen.

This is pretty useless. If you've ever transferred a large file over your average 100mbit home LAN cable, you know you never get the actual 100mbit, more like 10-50mbit, depending on the computers in play. Why? Because (a) that speed is only theoretical, and I'd imagine that's more so when talking about the internet. If you have a 2Gbit connection, that doesn't mean the server at the other end has; (B) your computer and the server need to process all this data and send it or save it to your harddisk. Ever tried copying 200mb of files from one disk to another one? Did you do that in under 1 second? Of course not, especially older computers (please don't expect these 'communities' have state of the art computers at home) will not be able to cope with that.

 

 

 

So, the actual 2gbit is something you'll probably never get. Because even if the servers you're using are able to provide enough data for you, if you have a few thousand of those homes, and in the evening everybody's online, then that giant stream of data is going to get throttled somewhere, probably at a switch which doesn't like the 2tbit/s amount of data.

 

 

 

I think it's actually better if consumers are not allowed to have more than 8-10Mbit/s bandwidth. Because giving everybody access to 2gbit/s will (a) grealy help internet crime/DoS attackers, (B) it means all the servers out there will have to start buying new hardware, because right now they sure as hell wouldn't be able to cope, and © it means a few people filesharing will be able to grind the 'net to a halt, because the massive data flow currently can't be handled by switches.

At the moment it is fairly usless to the adverage person just browsing the net because something in the computer is gona put it in a bottleneck. But we can still dream of owning that computer 10 times faster in 3 years and downloading entire movies before our eyes.

What Hannibal say is absolutly true the highest speed I get with a cat5 cable is 80mbits/sec end thats with a cross over strait from one computer to the other its about 40mbits running thru the network router