100 GB/s Internet 2 Completed

[sam0t]

How long did it take for current Internet to reach regular homes? I mean it was in use with military/researchers exclusively for a long time if I understaded right. Still maybe Internet2 will come homes faster since the conscept is allready in use so to speak.

I think I read something about Japan developing alternative network to Internet, anybody remember the speeds?

And about fiber optics. If one is to believe my university teacher, atleast according to him, today the most expensive part on fiber optic connections is the actual work done by man by digging the ditches to the earth. He might be right as some of the newer house holds in my part of europe allrdy come with fiber optic connections.

 

[Kreij]

You don't sound like a techie at all... we need the internets for a healthy dose of monitor radiation

LOL ... I like working with all kinds of tech, that was just a mini-rant because I was getting tired and my dial-up connection seemed to be getting slower and slower

The internet will not 'overload' and 'collapse'.

Well, if it does, just remember you heard it here first from your old Uncle Kreij !!

 

[ex_reven]

Well, if it does, just remember you heard it here first from your old Uncle Kreij !!

As long as my schools network admin never gets the job of managing infrastructure/root servers, that will never happen.

 

[FAXA]

As long as my schools network admin never gets the job of managing infrastructure/root servers, that will never happen.

My school IT teacher didn't know that she could connect more than one PC to a router.

 

[WarEagleAU]

As a fellow BTer, this makes me happy. Limitations though are a pain the rear. HDDs and the cap are two of the biggest, plus throttling..

 

[p_o_s_pc]

BitTorrent

you could have anything downloaded in just a few min-secs depending on what the speeds are you are downloading from.

 

[Jess Stingray]

Imagine that everyone in the world's hard drives turned up in your system as NAS and you could access them with the right passwords/security features in place

You can. It's called "hacking"

 

[Makaveli]

My school IT teacher didn't know that she could connect more than one PC to a router.

lol I hope for your sake this a grade school or highschool, not a college/Unversity that you're paying to attend.

 

[bassmasta]

I think information at the speed of light isn't too hard to imagine. I don't remember how I came across this point, but once upon a time in Russia, they did some tests, and found that on electrical cables more than 100 kilometers long, amps arrived before volts. yeah.

 

[Jess Stingray]

Hacker Evolution uses this idea. Data packets are recieved before they are sent, which makes applications able to run in parallel across infinite time slices. However, it made the space-time continuum unstable, possily causing the crack that Dr. Who fell through into that alternate dimension.

 

[lemonadesoda]

At those speeds, intercepting the data to catch "subversive activity" is going to be difficult. Or at least, this is another excuse for multi-billion budget to upgrade the Security Services IT systems "Deep Watch"

 

[ex_reven]

You can. It's called "hacking"

Wrong.
Hacking is the act of gaining access to A computer system.
A NAS allows multiple access simultaneously to multiple systems.

The only way to access multiple systems while hacking is through a bot net and even then you probably have limited control.

 

[Kreij]

I think information at the speed of light isn't too hard to imagine. I don't remember how I came across this point, but once upon a time in Russia, they did some tests, and found that on electrical cables more than 100 kilometers long, amps arrived before volts. yeah.

Yeah, but you have to remember that electricity moves along cables much slower than the speed of light.

The other thing of note is, how can you measure amps without volts and resistance?
Something seems fishy in the report you mention.
V = I*R so if the Amperage increases, something else is changing too.

 

[ex_reven]

Weird I thought amps and volts were one in the same, I.E. they form part of the same thing an electron or whatever it is that electricity/current is made up of.

 

[Shyska]

I was thinking more like an awesome LAN.
Imagine that everyone in the world's hard drives turned up in your system as NAS and you could access them with the right passwords/security features in place

It's not the speed that is main limiting factor there - limited IPv4 address space is. First we need IPv6 everywhere (or some alternative).

About speed of light, sorry to disappoint but there are at least 2 relatively slow commutation nodes between you and your mate...

 

[Kreij]

Weird I thought amps and volts were one in the same, I.E. they form part of the same thing an electron or whatever it is that electricity/current is made up of.

They are both part of electricity, but they are not the same thing.
Voltage (or volts) is the force that moves the electrons through the conductor (wire or whatever), and current (or amps) is the rate at which the electrons flow. When you add in a current limiter (resistor) into the curcuit the current is limited in an amount proportional to the voltage applied.

Thus if you know any two of them, you can calculate the third.

So if your body is 100 ohms of resistance, and you apply 50,000 volts to it, using the equation I = V/R you would have 500 amps (if that much current can be supplied by the source) flowing through you and you would be toast.