Vamp
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2 edits | typo?
might wanna fix your typo ... it's 100pbps not 100pbmps
EDIT: nevermind.... wtf is a petabit meter anyway? sorry for my lack of reading it right  |
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gatorkram
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| Sick of these?
Is anyone else sick of hearing about these "speed" records? What good is it doing anyone? I don't see my speeds getting faster, and cheaper from this, does anyone else?
Seems to me, there is lots of money out there in the world, and no ons is using it to make the internet better and faster for everyone else. Maybe I am missing something? |
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IntraLink
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join:2002-08-14
Utah Valley | That's a cool picture of Speed Racer!
Goes to show that NetBSD has the coding power to push the bits, that's for sure! |
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nerdling301
join:2004-01-12
Brookline, MA
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Re: Sick of these?
said by gatorkram  :
Is anyone else sick of hearing about these "speed" records? What good is it doing anyone? I don't see my speeds getting faster, and cheaper from this, does anyone else?
Seems to me, there is lots of money out there in the world, and no ons is using it to make the internet better and faster for everyone else. Maybe I am missing something?
i agree totally with gatorkram, let us know when it applies to us at home!
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LaZ3R
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over 1800 GIGS in an hour on a single TCP line... 100MB would be like 1 minute 
= 1,000,000 internet connection per month 
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SirXILE
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1 edit | reply to nerdling301
said by nerdling301 :
said by gatorkram :
Is anyone else sick of hearing about these "speed" records? What good is it doing anyone? I don't see my speeds getting faster, and cheaper from this, does anyone else?
Seems to me, there is lots of money out there in the world, and no ons is using it to make the internet better and faster for everyone else. Maybe I am missing something?
i agree totally with gatorkram, let us know when it applies to us at home!
I definitely co-sign, we are never gonna get these technologies, let alone get them at a cheap price. Overseas got connections similar or even better then us for crazy deals. These damn companies keep filling our head with cotton filling. Just do it & give us fullfillment in speeds, not yap yap. 
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Omega
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| reply to Vamp
Re: typo?
yea, i don't understand the whole petabit meter thing either.
I wonder what type of data they could have possibly created to take up all those gigabytes.
Maybe it was just a big .txt file.
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swiftymc
join:2004-02-15
Mansfield Center, CT
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Re: Sick of these?
said by gatorkram :
Is anyone else sick of hearing about these "speed" records? What good is it doing anyone? I don't see my speeds getting faster, and cheaper from this, does anyone else?
Seems to me, there is lots of money out there in the world, and no ons is using it to make the internet better and faster for everyone else. Maybe I am missing something?
Yea...I TOTALLY agree...what good is all this if im still stuck on 1.5/256 for $30 a month |
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tiger72
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clubs: | 43 hops over existing infrastructure
what makes this one interesting is that it required 43 hops, 3 times crossing the atlantic, and 450ms to get there over EXISTING Sprint infrastructure on a single 2.8ghz xeon with 1GB RAM.
that, at least to me is amazing. |
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Maxo
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clubs: | Guarantee
I guarantee that in the future peeps will be all, "Such and such ISP is ripping me off because I only get 1.5pbms and they wouldn't be doing this if they didn't have a monopoly in my area." |
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X
join:2003-05-27
Sacramento, CA | reply to gatorkram
Re: Sick of these?
i personally am sick to my stomach of hearing all this crap aboiut "new speed record" while a regular consumer doesnt even have a goddamn 20Mbps in USA. |
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exocet_cm
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| reply to swiftymc
said by swiftymc :
said by gatorkram :
Is anyone else sick of hearing about these "speed" records?
Yea...I TOTALLY agree...what good is all this if im still stuck on 1.5/256 for $30 a month
I agree totally. It is good that speeds are increasing and people make a note of it, but it doesn't appply to me right now. I don't even have a gigabet network! I'm still 10/100  Maybe someday this technology will apply to me, but as of right now, I don't even have what is available...
And cost, how much will something like this cost for the home user? Probably alot more than what the Sheriff's department pays me
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justin
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Brooklyn, NY | reply to tiger72
Re: 43 hops over existing infrastructure
yeah thats a wall of data, but the ping time sucks |
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zengei
join:2002-11-26
Bronx, NY | reply to Vamp
Re: typo?
Transfering one petabit of data over one meter of cable in one second. |
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MoviePhreak9
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India | Big bill
Wonder how big the bill would be at an ISP that charges per MB after 500MB or 1GB / month :-o |
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mrchris
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North Babylon, NY | Meh
Ask me if I care about backbone speeds...
Why must they torture us broadband users with absymal transfer speeds used by backbones and such?  |
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gatorkram
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| reply to Maxo
Re: Guarantee
said by Maxo :
I guarantee that in the future peeps will be all, "Such and such ISP is ripping me off because I only get 1.5pbms and they wouldn't be doing this if they didn't have a monopoly in my area."
I agree with that statement. It's human nature to never be happy with what you have. It is that drive that makes us all do better. If we didn't have it, who knows where we would be, if here at all.
Give me bandwidth, or give me death! |
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Battlespire
join:2002-08-11
Edmundston, NB
| Speed record are fun! hihihi
President of an corp : What is the use for internet 2?
Marketing guy: to make speed records and do research on speed records.
PoaC: If we only need a 10 mbits line, wouldn't be cheaper if we use normal internet and encrypt our packets?
Marketing guy: but internet 2 is fun!
Makes as much sense as this »www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/193373 . |
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Neil
Stop All The Downloadin
join:2003-08-20
New York, NY | reply to mrchris
Re: Meh
Because in the end, the backbone speed applies, to you, the user. |
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Goldengamego
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Okemos, MI
1 edit |  Goof for us to
This can be a good thing for us to, if the backbone gets faster and thus cheaper per GB we could get either faster access, cheaper access or both:)
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