World's Fastest Internet Transfer Rate? 61
vrioux asks: "While browsing through available Internet service offerings in my area, I became puzzled by the large amount of different speed records that seem to have been achieved in the past months. Some say that 5.44Gbits was the fastest ever achieved, while others seem to think 923Mbits is still in the race. Is there anybody who really knows who holds the Internet transfer world speed record?"
Obvious answer... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Obvious answer... (Score:2)
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Re:Obvious answer... (Score:1)
I mean, come on! These are the kinds of questions we want answered!
Re:Obvious answer... (Score:1)
Does this measurement take into account the time taken to write to the media, then loading and unloading of media into the vehicle?
What distance... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:What distance... (Score:3, Insightful)
truck (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:truck (Score:2, Informative)
when you use the internet, the data is already on your computer.
wow. I need to relax
Re:truck (Score:2)
Now that's transfer rate.
Re:truck (Score:1)
Re:truck (Score:2)
Naw, that would never work.
-G
As for the discussion, I was looking at a way to get about 6 CDs worth of data to a friend just this week. I considered how long it would take to upload 3G at about 118K/s sustained (cablemodem is fast downstream, but throttled pretty bad upstream
Re:truck (Score:2)
It's already loaded when you get there.
how was this modded insightful... (Score:1)
Re: truck (Score:1)
> last i heard, a truck full of backup tapes was still faster than the internet.
How 'bout a wheelbarrow full of the new 1" 4GB drives?
We could have races, to see which geek was capable of the most bandwidth!
Depends (Score:3, Informative)
On a side note, your standard fiber OC-192 is 10-Gbit/s. And your OC-48 is 2.45Gbit/s. While your OC-192s are definitly not common, its not unheard of for service providers with big ONS SONET networks to have them.
Re:Depends (Score:1)
Microsoft has the most bandwidth in Washington state. They're connected directly to every backbone you have likely heard of or care about. And since they're usually a participant in one way or another...
Hrumph (Score:4, Funny)
No, but I have a compelling essay about who was the best Star Trek captain. I have some time tomorrow night if you'd like me to read it to you.
Re:Hrumph (Score:1)
It might just be the post-holiday emotional slump.
Well, let's get this started... (Score:2)
Re:Well, let's get this started... (Score:1)
Captain Sulu all the way!
Re:Hrumph (Score:2)
Who knows... (Score:2, Insightful)
An OC-192 SONET circuit is (IIRC) 9.6 Gbps and are used in lots of places.
My guess is that they were referring to serial transmittion (i.e. one bit at a time - a "truck with tapes" wouldn't qualify) specifically across the atlantic, using existing circuits. Otherwise, those n
better question (Score:3, Funny)
Surprisingly, at least two people seem to care -- vrioux and Cliff. I'm surprised.
Slow news day, eh?
Did the poser of the question read the dates? (Score:5, Informative)
Roughly 100 years ago, the world record for powered airplane speed was probably under 60 mph ... I imagine it's somewhat faster now.
(Of course, `Internet Speed Record' ... who really cares? I'll care when I can have this transfer rate to my house for $60/month :)
Re:Did the poser of the question read the dates? (Score:2)
Re:Did the poser of the question read the dates? (Score:2)
Re:Did the poser of the question read the dates? (Score:2)
Go to http://bb.softbankbb.co.jp/ybb45m/ [softbankbb.co.jp] from babelfish (using Japanese to English).
You're lookin at 45 mbps down, 3 mbps up for around $40 US from Yahoo!. The same Yahoo! we got here, you know the BSD zealots favorite website.
Re:Did the poser of the question read the dates? (Score:2)
Uh... no. That wasn't at all what i was asking for, though. What i want, is for ISPs to migrate to fastTCP in place of regular TCP... The fastTCP is able to do things to the protocol to(you guessed) go faster. it can be run on any media, since it is only an advanced TCP, but the speed increase is enormous, and well worth a "couple extra bucks a month"... This is a protocol upg
Re:Did the poser of the question read the dates? (Score:2)
terabyte meters per second (Score:2)
Any numbers you read in any of the above articles should be multiplied by the distance between endpoints across all router links, and re-ranked. The parent post has a good example.
Re:terabyte meters per second (Score:2)
The distinguishing feature here is actually latency, not distance. Distance only counts in that, generally, in most networking, all other factors being equal (or nearly so), increasing distance implies increasing latency.
In fact, I can SIMULATE a gigabit network pipe reaching from Sydney to San Jose simply by locally connecting two computers over gigabit ethernet, and articifially inducing ~170-210ms RTT latency. (fyi: I'm in sydney, and the first SanJose/Sprintlink hop shows max 169ms)
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Re:terabyte meters per second (Score:2)
Sounds like my ISP.
Mmmm... (Score:1)
So a doubling of distance should get you bonus points! You can overcome system latency with fancy hardware, but you can't f
Re:Mmmm... (Score:2)
You can, and you can't.
If you're worried about ping times, no, you can't do much about it. But if all you're after is being able to transfer a massive file in a very short period of time, you can. Ditching TCP entirely and spewing the data via UDP packets, not even waiting for acknowledgements will almost entirely remove the effects of any latency. Only if the remote host needs to re-request any data does latency really become an issue.
One brute force method to avoid
Only on the Internet? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Only on the Internet? (Score:1)
Tat-14 (Score:2, Informative)
"It has a dual route, transatlantic capacity of 640 Gbits on 2 service fiber pairs backed up by 2 protection fiber pairs. This configuration provides a capability of transporting 4,096 STM-1's or approximately 9,700,000 circuits across the ocean."
It more depends what is being counted though. Your never going to get all of this fiber at once. If you count from a local isp the speed record or from the backbone or from a rual isp it all depends.
Yeah how do you measure this? (Score:3, Interesting)
So do two systems side by side and connected to the net qualify as 'across the Internet', or is the rule to use only standard consumer ISPs?
Re:Yeah how do you measure this? (Score:2)
20Gb/s x 1 meter = 20Gigabit meters per second.
Double the distance to two meters and you have 40Gigabit meters per second.
Obligatory reponse.... (Score:1)
If I multiply the speed by distance, that's. Arggh! your puny hu-man Internet2 is like using constupated pigeons!
Re:Yeah how do you measure this? (Score:2)
I did the math. The Internet2 discussed above (record holder) moved 1.1 terabytes across 7,000 meters in less than 30 minutes. This translates to roughly 5.44 gigabits / second sustained across a distance of 7,000m.
In relation to the 20gigabit meters / second you describe, these guys pumped
38,080,000 gigabit meters / second.
38,080 terabit meters / second.
38 petabit meters / second.
That is very cool, but what the article doesn't mention is that the files they used were all MP3's and now the RIA
Q: What are they measuring? A: (read on) (Score:3, Informative)
What these people are going on about is the real-world actual measured data-throughput between a single pair of computers across "the internet" (usually across a significant chunk of the world).
Anyone who's tried to use any TCP based protocol (eg FTP, HTP) to send mind-warpingly large chunks of data understand the throughput limitations imposed on said communication as a direct result of large RTT latency.
I'm not sure about these two instances specifically (articles give essentially ZERO technical details) but many similar researches are an attempt to derive new (bigger, better, faster, and more eco-friendly) protocols which avoid the limitations of TCP.
Bandwidth Challenge (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Bandwidth Challenge (Score:1)
Its 5.44 gb/s (Score:2)
More info at http://lsr.internet2.edu/ [internet2.edu]
Also, the fastest router from juniper networks, to my knowledge, is the m160, capable of forwarding 160 GB/s. But, that is spread out over several interfaces.
-n
Re:Its 5.44 gb/s (Score:2)
The Records:
IPv6 Category
Single Stream Class: 6,947 terabit-meters per second by a team consisting of members from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CERN across 7067 kilometers of network.
Multiple Stream Class: 6,947 terabit-meters per second by a team consisting of members from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CERN across 7067 kilometers of network.
IPv4 Category
Single Stream Class: 38,420.54 terabit-meters per second by a team consisting of members from the Californ
It's me and my roof top couriers. (Score:1)