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Caltech Sets 186Gbps Internet Speed Record

Posted December 13, 2011 8:54 AM

From Extremetech:

A delicious combination of high-energy physicists, engineers, and computer scientists from Caltech and the University of Victoria have broken the world record for sustained, computer-to-computer transfer over a network. Between the SuperComputing 2011 (SC11) convention in Seattle and the University of Victoria Computer Centre, Canada - a distance of 134 miles (217km) - a transfer rate of 186 gigabits per second was achieved over a 100Gbps bidirectional fiber optic link; 98Gbps in one direction, 88Gbps in the other.

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12/13/2011 11:36 PM

Let me guess. Later that day the speed was significantly slower at which time an email from their internet security provider was received asking if their computer was slow and for $29.95 they can correct it.

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