Peter Löthberg, an optical Internet guru from Sweden has managed to hook up the daddy of all home Internet connections, running at a staggering 40Gb/s.
To put that speed into perspective, it would take 0.14s to download a DVD and only 3s to get your mitts on an HD DVD. Mr. Löthberg carried out the procedure to demonstrate the viability of such speeds in a residential context.
If Internet connections do ever become this fast, your porn collection is likely to grow beyond the point you can feasibly hide it and everyone will know you for the pervert you are. That said, not everyone will have such perverse uses, certainly not the homeowner herself… Mr. Löthberg’s 75yr old mother! [Newlaunches]
Jared
Monday, July 16, 2007 at 8:59 AMPity i heard on the news today that out of developed countries, Australia has the second slowest internet speed. It is quite simply a shamozzle.
NightCabbage
Monday, July 16, 2007 at 4:22 PMSOrry to be a bum head, but it would take a lot longer than 0.14 seconds to download a DVD…
More like 1 second ;)
(40Gbps / 8 = 5GBps = ~1 shrunk DVD)
dachampjonny
Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 11:52 AMhow would you be able to download that quick. your hard drive is only WAY less than 1.5gbs (sata 1 speed which is still faster than all current hdds – even raptor) unless they are having some MASSIVE RAID configuration
Benjamen
Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 11:43 PMoh i feel sorry for NightCabbage, tho he may have realised the errors of his ways in the past year.
a dvd is 8gb. and downloads at 40gb/s. that means that ever second, 40gb is downloaded. which is 5 dvds per second. therefore to download 1 dvd would take 5x less then 1 second. or simply 40gb/s / 8gb = 0.2s
simple math :P
David
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 9:44 PMUmm.. Benjamen… Respectfully, NightCabbage is actually correct — you’re missing the difference between Gigabits (Gb) and Gigabytes (GB).
40Gb/s is 40 GigaBITS per second, which is 40/8 = 5 GigaBYTES (5GB) per second (5GB/s).
A single layer DVD = ~5GB (download one in 1 second)
A double layer DVD = ~8GB (download one in 8/5=1.6 seconds)
Neither of those is the 0.14 seconds stated in the article.
That said, as far as I understand it, none of the technology in any normal computer can handle transfer speeds anything like that, with perhaps the exception of the path between RAM and the CPU! So a RAM disk might cut it ;)
But even with a RAM disk, or the massive RAID that dachampjohnny suggested (theoretically 14 x 3Gb/s SATA II drives might keep up), can any computer hold that kind of RAID internally, and if it’s external, then what kind of pipe can handle data transfer like that between the RAID and the computer?
Even getting the data from the internet connection to the computer…? a Gigabit ethernet connection isn’t going to keep up. Have they invented 10Gb ethernet yet?
One has to ask… what’s the point?! lol.
Then again… Transfer an 8GByte DVD over Gigabit Ethernet (1GB theoretically = 128MByte/s) and it’ll theoretically take 64 seconds. (8192MB/128MBps)
Then again, with 40 computers and that internet connection you could download 40 double layer DVD’s (one to each computer) in just over a minute. Hmm… that’d be nice!!
LOL.
Someone tell me how he did this?!
Ben
Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 4:25 PMWhat i wanna know is, how much d/l does he get a month?? and how much does it cost?
Darien McTackett
Saturday, September 5, 2009 at 6:35 PMben why ask lol hes probably the owner of super intrablags intranationalz :P lol yeah how much dl does he get hed probably downlaod that many dvd’s it wouldnt matter i rekon itd cost like 1000 a month or more
Ben
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 9:18 PMyer dazza, prob not… your not funnay
Ben
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 10:06 PMInfiniband would keep up as a communications link between the internet connection and the computers, and between computers. Keeping up with internet speed vs hard disk speed would be quite simple with multiple scsi raid array servers, all with infiniband connection which can handle up to I think about 100Gbit (12Gb/sec).
I would say the connection he has got by the sounds is a OC-768 which is 40Gbit (5Gb/sec). There is no faster connection. 1500 and 3000 are only theoretical. 768, not a bad connection for the home, if you can afford a couple hundred k a month, LOL