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nico
Joined: 12 Dec 2006
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 Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:38 pm Post subject: Internet connection speed of 40 gigabits per second soon |
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Thats something for you faceless. |
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Mandy
Joined: 07 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Great !! Though I wonder if it is 40Gbs downstream, 1Mbps (if you are lucky) upstream |
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nekokate
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
Location: West Yorkshire, UK
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| 40 gigs down sounds great, but you have to remember that you can only download as fast as a server can give out, so really it'd be complete overkill. It'd be like owning a car that's capable of a thousand miles per hour. Fucking useless. |
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faceless
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Joined: 25 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| It sounds great, but the problem would come where you're trying to access information that's stored on slow servers. To be honest though, I don't mind waiting 10 minutes on my 20mb connection for a full xvid movie or whatever. |
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Ash
Joined: 22 May 2007
Location: Al-Ard
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:04 am Post subject: |
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"40Gbs downstream, 1Mbps (if you are lucky) upstream"
What does it actually mean? Can anyone please explain what is the upload and download speed would be for me. These things always confuses me  |
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Mandy
Joined: 07 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:19 am Post subject: |
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Hi Ash,
Downstream is what most people use the link for : browsing web sites which have images and movies.
Upstream is when, as an example, faceless has a locally edited movie, and he wants to upload it to Humyo or YouTube. |
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faceless
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Joined: 25 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:22 am Post subject: |
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it means that Mandy's taking the piss! haha
Virgin media currently offer 20mb/s connection, which in effect means about 2mb/s of actual data download and about 90k/s upload, so a 40gb/s system using the same ratios would be about 200x faster. |
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Mandy
Joined: 07 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| I do have a sense of humour (sometimes)... |
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Griffo
Joined: 24 May 2006
Location: Staffordshire, England
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| Who needs 40 gig net? Damn, i'd be happy with a 100 meg internet connection at home so i wouldn't have to purchase servers for torrenting! |
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luke
Joined: 11 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:08 am Post subject: |
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| i'd be happy with my 8mb if it really was 8mb all the time! |
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Ash
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Location: Al-Ard
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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Honestly, I don't want that kind of fast connection- it is going to *ruin* my education and fund  |
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