WastedTimes

[aiolos]

France telecom is offering 2,5Gbps (not a typo) to some parts of Paris for 70E a month. It comes with 1,2Gbps upload and the first two months are free. Sounds good to you ?

For those who understand French, the OFFICIAL anouncement is here :
h__p://www.francetelecom.com/fr/espaces/journalistes/communiques/CP_old/cp060725.html

[Guest]

Cool, nothing can BEat a t1 line though. i love my connection. My dad works for the Gov't so he gets it free.

[Grim]

Lots of stuff can pwn a t1 line, they're very fast but not the fastest!

Even if they had a 2.5 Gb/s connection their HDD wouldnt be quick enough to swallow that much data flow unless they had some kind of RAID setup!

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T1 - 1.544 megabits per second (24 DS0 lines)
T3 - 43.232 megabits per second (28 T1s)
OC3 - 155 megabits per second (84 T1s)
OC12 - 622 megabits per second (4 OC3s)
OC48 - 2.5 gigabits per seconds (4 OC12s)
OC192 - 9.6 gigabits per second (4 OC48s)

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101 gigabits per second between Pittsburgh and Los Angeles

[aiolos]

The hard disk isn't really the problem. It's that you can't really fill 2,5Gbps with anything. No server will give you this much b/w (and p2p doesn't even come close).

I wonder where this thing connects to on the pc. USB 2 = 480Mbps, PCI = 133*8=1Gbps are not enough, so you need a network card (not ethernet but something with more b/w) on a pci-express slot.

[shaun2k]

bring it on.......................at least you can live in the comfort of knowing that u dont need to upgrade for a long while lol

When tech brings us to a point where we can use that b/w think of the extreme gaming mnnnnnn doh nuts