Think Your XBOX Live! or PS2 Connection Is Fast...You Better Read On!!!

With all those PS2 and XBOX Live! online players out there, I couldn' t pass this article up. This is expected to eliminate lag permanently (or so they say).

We' ll see...

Read the article and respond accordingly.

New Internet Data Speed Record Set at 101 Gbit/s

By: César A. Berardini - " Cesar"

Dec. 1st, 2004 12:50 pm

A team led by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, CalTech and the Fermi Lab has set a new world record for sustained bandwidth, winning the annual Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge competition at the SC2004, a conference on high performance computing, networking and storage held in Pittsburgh.

The team achieved a sustained data transfer of 101 gigabits per second (Gbps) between Pittsburgh and Los Angeles. This is more than four times faster than last year' s record of 23.2 gigabits per second, which was set by the same team.

The extraordinary achieved bandwidth was made possible in part through the use of the FAST TCP protocol developed by Professor Steven Low and his Caltech Netlab team.

The record was achieved through the use of seven 10 Gbps links to Cisco 7600 and 6500 series switch-routers provided by Cisco Systems at the Caltech Center for Advanced Computing (CACR) booth, and three 10 Gbps links to the SLAC/Fermilab booth.

The Bandwidth Challenge allowed the scientists and engineers involved to preview the globally distributed grid system that is now being developed in the US and Europe in preparation for the next generation of high-energy physics experiments at CERN' s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scheduled to begin operation in 2007.

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I' m sure we' ll all soon be seeing that offered for home internet users for $34.95 a month! Even so, both the PS2 and Xbox are limited to 10mbps. You can piss faster than that... umm that is if you pissed 1' s and 0' s, I guess. But even having everyone at 10mbps would be much better than things are now, that' s for sure.