40 Gbps internet connection (worlds fastest)

[benladesh]

This woman in Sweden has the worlds fastest internet connection of 40 Gbps. Thats 5 gigabytes per second download. I'm not even sure a hard drive can write that fast and isn't she limited by the speed of the server itself? I might be wrong but I think this is overkill. I don't think she can even use all of her speed. I'm not sure, someone who knows please enlighten me.

It might be overkill but I still want it. You can never ever lag.

heres the article.

http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/

[MarchingDuck]

This woman in Sweden has the worlds fastest internet connection of 40 Gbps. Thats 5 gigabytes per second download. I'm not even sure a hard drive can write that fast and isn't she limited by the speed of the server itself? I might be wrong but I think this is overkill. I don't think she can even use all of her speed. I'm not sure, someone who knows please enlighten me.

It might be overkill but I still want it. You can never ever lag.

heres the article.

http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/

i...want....it!!

now!

zomg.

[benladesh]

You could basically download a whole High definition movie in 1-2 seconds i'm just wondering if a harddrive can write that fast :S

[MarchingDuck]

You could basically download a whole High definition movie in 1-2 seconds i'm just wondering if a harddrive can write that fast :S

think of the RAM you would need though. thats rediculous! my computer would kill itself trying.

[Christopher]

"Wait a sec, I'm almost done downloading the internet"

[TDG]

"Wait a sec, I'm almost done downloading the internet"

*appears on a Scooty Puff Jr. and blows up computer before it downloads itself*

[Christopher]

"Wait a sec, I'm almost done downloading the internet"

*appears on a Scooty Puff Jr. and blows up computer before it downloads itself*

I was making a copy! That's what downloading is! I wasn't going to destroy it!

[Eechye]

Depending if she has the strongest duo Processor and a 8G ram ( Currently best ) and a heavy duty Volt + Overclocking

The disk can handle the speed

[Hunter Lupe]

I'm not even sure a hard drive can write that fast

Generally speaking, it can't.

and isn't she limited by the speed of the server itself?

Yes, but you can mitigate that by downloading from multiple sources (protocols like BitTorrent) at the same time.

I might be wrong but I think this is overkill. I don't think she can even use all of her speed. I'm not sure, someone who knows please enlighten me.

The trick here is that the extra bandwidth isn't really aimed at a single device downloading huge files blazingly fast - the focus is more on enabling multiple devices receive a relatively large amount of information (by conventional broadband standards) without affecting each other - which can be useful for digital HD television - it would enable her to recieve multiple (according to the article, more than 1500) channels simultaniously.
Realistically, there's no real benefit in pushing that much bandwidth to consumers - but it might be useful elsewhere, and the article states that this was mostly a technology demonstration.

You can never ever lag.

Bandwidth doesn't really do anything about link latency - you may be able to transmit and receive large amounts of data, but it may still take ages to get anywhere.

[Asthaloth]

Depending if she has the strongest duo Processor and a 8G ram ( Currently best ) and a heavy duty Volt + Overclocking

The disk can handle the speed

Eight gig of Ram is nothing...

Course, I remember the day when a 1 gig hard drive "would never be filled"

And these days there are people with Terabyte hard drives (Not me I'm afraid, I'm still languishing on an old 52 Gig)

[DiscordantNote]

Depending if she has the strongest duo Processor and a 8G ram ( Currently best ) and a heavy duty Volt + Overclocking

The disk can handle the speed

Eight gig of Ram is nothing...

Course, I remember the day when a 1 gig hard drive "would never be filled"

And these days there are people with Terabyte hard drives (Not me I'm afraid, I'm still languishing on an old 52 Gig)

Ah, yes...makes me think of my family's computer history. Our first computer cost over $4000 USD, ran Windows 3.1, and probably had a harddrive with a capacity measured in megabyte. Now, for around $1500 USD, you can buy a computer from Dell with 8 GB RAM, 2.79 TB of harddrive, the fastest duo processor around, and a heat sink so powerful that the aforementioned processor is overclocked in the factory. Of course, I have to sit back and think "Do I really need all that?"

As for the internet connection, it would probably do wonders for some corporations and places with large amounts of residency (apartment buildings, college dorms, etc.). It certainly wouldn't do much (let alone work well) with your average civilian computer, but a whole bunch would probably benefit. Keep in mind, too...if this kind of speed becomes more common, then stuff like fiber optics which are plenty good enough for most of us might become dirt cheap!

[Shadow]

Ah, yes...makes me think of my family's computer history. Our first computer cost over $4000 USD, ran Windows 3.1, and probably had a harddrive with a capacity measured in megabyte. Now, for around $1500 USD, you can buy a computer from Dell with 8 GB RAM, 2.79 TB of harddrive, the fastest duo processor around, and a heat sink so powerful that the aforementioned processor is overclocked in the factory. Of course, I have to sit back and think "Do I really need all that?"

It would be a bit more than $1500. I've been shopping around and I've yet to see a computer with 8GB RAM factory installed and if you did it yourself (and assuming you have about 1 GB from the factory installed) it would cost about $910 to get 8 GB, IF you even had enough slots for it in your computer (which is unlikely). That and Duo processors are relatively new. And of course, you need all that.

[DiscordantNote]

Ah, yes...makes me think of my family's computer history. Our first computer cost over $4000 USD, ran Windows 3.1, and probably had a harddrive with a capacity measured in megabyte. Now, for around $1500 USD, you can buy a computer from Dell with 8 GB RAM, 2.79 TB of harddrive, the fastest duo processor around, and a heat sink so powerful that the aforementioned processor is overclocked in the factory. Of course, I have to sit back and think "Do I really need all that?"

It would be a bit more than $1500. I've been shopping around and I've yet to see a computer with 8GB RAM factory installed and if you did it yourself (and assuming you have about 1 GB from the factory installed) it would cost about $910 to get 8 GB, IF you even had enough slots for it in your computer (which is unlikely). That and Duo processors are relatively new. And of course, you need all that.

Ah, you're right, I was looking at the starting prices...for what i was talking about, you'd need $2500 USD...still less than my family's first computer.

But for $7000 USD, you can get some crazy beast of a machine with dual graphics cards and a quad-cord processor.

[benladesh]

The quad-core is $1000 to itself. *wishes he had one*

[Shadow]

Ah, yes...makes me think of my family's computer history. Our first computer cost over $4000 USD, ran Windows 3.1, and probably had a harddrive with a capacity measured in megabyte. Now, for around $1500 USD, you can buy a computer from Dell with 8 GB RAM, 2.79 TB of harddrive, the fastest duo processor around, and a heat sink so powerful that the aforementioned processor is overclocked in the factory. Of course, I have to sit back and think "Do I really need all that?"

It would be a bit more than $1500. I've been shopping around and I've yet to see a computer with 8GB RAM factory installed and if you did it yourself (and assuming you have about 1 GB from the factory installed) it would cost about $910 to get 8 GB, IF you even had enough slots for it in your computer (which is unlikely). That and Duo processors are relatively new. And of course, you need all that.

Ah, you're right, I was looking at the starting prices...for what i was talking about, you'd need $2500 USD...still less than my family's first computer.

But for $7000 USD, you can get some crazy beast of a machine with dual graphics cards and a quad-cord processor.

Haha I was checking out some alienware computers and the one I want came to a total of about $5300 or so, with shipping and everything. Of course I could have gotten a backpack to put it in, some awesome headphones, more games and a bunch of other stuff, but I passed on those.