Internet Speed Record

[Wise Young]

This 9.08 Gbits/second record was achieved with the new internet IPv6. The previous speed record under IPv4 was 8.8 Gbits/second. It was done over Internet2, run by a consortium of over 200 U.S. universities.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070424/D8ON57EG0.html
Apr 24, 2:58 PM (ET)

By ANICK JESDANUN

NEW YORK (AP) - A group of researchers led by the University of Tokyo has broken Internet speed records - twice in two days.

Operators of the high-speed Internet2 network announced Tuesday that the researchers on Dec. 30 sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard communications protocols. The next day, using modified protocols, the team broke the record again by sending data over the same 20,000-mile path at 9.08 Gbps.

It is truly amazing how fast transmission speeds have gone up in the past decade. I still remember a time when 48 Kb/sec is a very fast (and expensive) modem. Now, of course, we think that 100 Mb/sec is slow. Here is a chart the speeds of the various formats.

[CollegeDad]

It is amazing to think I was alive well before there was an internet. The computer power I hold in the palm of my hand would have taken up a warehouse full of vacuum tubes.

Consumer computer graphics are approaching smooth framerate photorealism. It truly is an exponential age.

[Jack21]

Thats great news indeed. This internet world has grown rapidly and transmission speeds has also gone up.

[kenf]

i get 46.6 kbps , i guess i'm use to it. my kids come over and tell me i'm in the stone age.

[Foolish Old]

It is amazing to think I was alive well before there was an internet. The computer power I hold in the palm of my hand would have taken up a warehouse full of vacuum tubes.

Consumer computer graphics are approaching smooth framerate photorealism. It truly is an exponential age.

so true.

For me, the future is here now. We are approaching the degree of connectivity and seamless convergence of information streams of my dreams. We will soon have the combination of fast, user friendly, low cost, universally available, cross platform compatible technology that satisfies all that I imagined.

Children understand this as status quo. My generation took cars for granted and imagined space exploration. What do our youngest imagine as the future of communication technology?

[CollegeDad]

We'll I do have to say I'm pretty dissappointed that I don't have any flying cars and where's my virtual reality? Of course, those two things are getting closer to reality.

VR will probably come first, because the flying cars problem is technical AND logistical. Traffic accidents are bad enough, just imagine flying cars with their mid-air collisions.

[mike]

Now all we need is our government to place some controls on the telecommunications industry to build a high speed network and charge low prices as do many of the other countries around the world.

[justadildo]

where in the hell are the automated highways with the autopilot cars we saw in popular science???...i could really use it now....i guess the internet will have to do.....