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April 27th, 2006, 09:57 PM
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| Politically Charged  Joined: Mar 23rd, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Posts: 3,697
Rep Power: 28   |  Internet2 Could Increase Speeds 80-Fold Just a story about something most of you already know..... http://www.local6.com/technology/9044802/detail.html On the subject of speeds, I saw an ad for my cable company..I think they jumped to 10Mbps download (from 5).....i'm gonna have to check on that
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April 27th, 2006, 10:00 PM
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 Joined: Mar 18th, 2005 Last Online: January 6th, 2009 Location: Lindenhurst, NY Age: 20 Posts: 4,850
Car: 2000 Nissan Altima Rep Power: 20   | Yeah, they had a short clip about it on the news this morning. Cool stuff. Always nice to see a speed increase in your area.  |
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April 27th, 2006, 10:04 PM
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 Joined: Feb 8th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: US Age: 27 Posts: 5,662
Car: '04 Toyota Sienna, crippled people like vans.... Rep Power: 53 | Re: Internet2 Could Increase Speeds 80-Fold Quote:
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ | |
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April 27th, 2006, 10:15 PM
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| Politically Charged Joined: Mar 23rd, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Posts: 3,697
Rep Power: 28 | lol..thanks. When I get home I'll check it out.
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April 28th, 2006, 12:16 AM
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| Captain Internet  Joined: Dec 19th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Bahrain Age: 24 Posts: 2,425
Car: Audi TT '08 Rep Power: 164 | Internet2 was being used by some special universities and research institutes for some time now. Hella fast  |
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April 28th, 2006, 12:34 AM
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| Joined: Jan 3rd, 2005 Last Online: December 19th, 2008 Location: San Francisco, California Posts: 1,541
Rep Power: 18 | yes... "hella" I'm on I2 typing this message right now. i get like 10mb/s transfers with other universities of california. It's great but they monitor this line like crazy.
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April 28th, 2006, 12:36 AM
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| Global Moderator  Joined: Nov 30th, 2004 Last Online: 02:02 AM Location: Northern Virginia, USA Age: 25 Posts: 2,249
Car: 2007 Durango Rep Power: 20 | Quote:
It's mostly just designed for universities, and won't be coming to a cable/phone company near you, unfortunately 
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May 4th, 2006, 03:09 PM
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| Previously Known As Jamesd  Joined: May 3rd, 2006 Last Online: 02:09 AM Location: Adelaide, Australia. Posts: 2,172
Car: '95 BMW 530i, '85 Nissan Bluebird S3 GXE Rep Power: 27  | Well, my connection, which is ADSL2+ gets up to 24mbit. It's pretty fast.
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May 4th, 2006, 03:45 PM
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 Joined: Apr 20th, 2005 Last Online: December 31st, 2008 Location: Adelaide, Australia Age: 24 Posts: 1,347
Rep Power: 18 | Quote:
And what is your actual sync speed? 24 mbit is just the "theoretical" max speed. Still I'm with Adam, thinking of changing to Node, and currently get 15-17 mbit/sec.
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May 4th, 2006, 04:18 PM
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 Joined: Mar 16th, 2005 Last Online: December 28th, 2007 Location: Philadelphia, USA Age: 28 Posts: 1,043
Car: 911, 328i, Golf, '71 Vespa Sprint Rep Power: 0  | Quote:
http://www.rit.edu/network/mrtg-inet/internetall.html the graphs of throughput are f-ing amazing... especially the I1 and I2 yearly aggregate -  yeah, RIT's total bandwidth is over 350 Mbps.... i remember those days, when i could download OS updates from Apple at around 4 MB/s, maxing out the hard drive write speed on my Apple G3 266.... | ||
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