Is High Speed Internet Limited?

Question

FROM: shortnews.com
07/21/2007 03:35 PM ID: 63736
75-Year-Old Computer Newbie Has World's Fastest Residential Internet Connection. 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg from Karlstad, who has never used a computer before, now has what is currently believed to be the fastest residential broadband in the world.
Her 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection is capable of downloading a HD-DVD film in two seconds. The connection was set up by her son, Peter Lothberg from Cisco, as a demonstration of a new router system.

According to Peter the new system will allow data transfer between routers without transponders over a range of 1,240 miles. The company "wanted to show that that there are no limitations to Internet speed."

My question is: Are there really no limitations? An HD DVD would hold aprox. 40 Gigs of data, considering that writing to a hard drive would only allow for 3 gigs per second (and that's at maximum speeds) how can you write more than 6 gigs in 2 seconds?

So 1. Is this excess of bandwidth really necessary in this case? 2. Unless you're connected into a network of (40/3=x) computers is it really worth it or is it just wasteful? 3. Is this another case of hyped-up propaganda to show how's *enis is bigger?

I should've really called it... when is enough ENOUGH!!!! Don't you think that they should think about making the OS, Hard drive capabilities, etc. better first and THEN make the net faster? Or are we forcing the comps to bite more than they can chew?

Answer 1

"the new system will allow data transfer between routers without transponders over a range of 1,240 miles"

They are obviously talking about routers that are on the "backbone" i.e. the routers that provide transport of extremely large amounts of data. With the exponential increase of the internet capabilities like this is essential.
As far as granny having a 40 GB/sec fiber-optic connection (obviously a PR stunt), I'd like to see the look on her face when she gets the bill at the end of the month!
As far as receiving large amounts of data the amount of disk cache is a larger factor than how fast information can be written to disk.

Answer 2

There is a limit to internet speed. It's called the speed of light. Once the data travels that quickly and in enough quantities, there is a limit.

Bandwidth is a culmination of the size of the line mixed with the speed of the data. Therefore, the larger the pipe (or the more compacted the data is inside the line), and the faster the data travels (upto the speed of light), the faster the internet will be.

Answer 3

You cannot "write" at a speed that is limited to the program, however you can download at the speed in which the source is supplying the information. In the case that I think you are speaking about, you would receive the information faster than your "write" speed, in which case your computer would receive the information as fast as it can, and then write it at a slower speed, but would include all of the information. You would not write it at the same speed but your computer would retain that information and write it at the speed that it is meant to.

Answer 4

Really, the only limit to your internet speed is the type of connection you have. However, a connection of the speed mentioned above would be impractical and very costly for the average home user.

Answer 5

To be honest, you really can't.

This doesn't discount for a) faster harddrives to come (Raptor), and probably the real way she'll use it b) Streaming the movies.

Plus, imagine what her upload ratio will be like with that beast.

Answer 6

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