How this for fast internet!

[Amon37]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19832184...5829?GT1=10150

40 gigabits a second

[Sylin]

Originally Posted by Amon37

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19832184...5829?GT1=10150

40 gigabits a second

Eh... I don't doubt the connection speed (well, I do, but who am I to argue with some old Swedish dame?), but the writer is not being accurate here.

She may, in theory, be able to download a full-length movie in 2 seconds. But the problem is that there is no consumer PC on Earth that can receive 10gb of data in 2 seconds. It would take almost an hour for the hdd to write that, meaning it would be sitting in RAM, which, of course, no consumer PC's have that much memory, either.

I hope this is some joke or prank. If not, it's a terrible waste of good bandwidth. Why couldn't this be installed somewhere worthwhile, like a school?

[Footloose301]

Interesting. I used to have AOHELL which was slow at downloading. The highest I reached with that was maybe 4.0kb/s and then got DSL with a newer HP Laptop and linksys router and was downloading at maybe 130kb/s and then got comcast cable with the linksys router and was at 300kb/s and then now bought a new MacBook Pro with all the upgrades and a new Airport Extreme 802.11n and I seen it has high as 1.8mb/s and downloads a song in about 2 seconds..... and I thought that was fast