75-year-old has world's fastest private internet connection

[Progen]

75-year-old Sibritt L

[Archangel]

Edit by Admin: Dont be silly.

Edit by Admin: Quit with the links to torrent sites. They're not appropriate.

[Brocky]

Edit by Admin: Dont be silly.
Yah good call.

[forrie]

LOL old news aperantly the connection was set up by her son

[alexvpaq]

Yeah... like a 75 Y.O. Oldies could use these 40gb/s correctly...
I need that connection, It could make my quest of downloading every anime really easier, my 6mb/s isn't enough for a good use ... 15 to 30 minutes for 175 mb... Too slow... :rofl: *yeah I can remember the time when it was taking about 10 to 15 minutes for a 3 mb song lol*

[Liam]

Yeah... like a 75 Y.O. Oldies could use these 40gb/s correctly...
I need that connection, It could make my quest of downloading every anime really easier, my 6mb/s isn't enough for a good use ... 15 to 30 minutes for 175 mb... Too slow... :rofl: *yeah I can remember the time when it was taking about 10 to 15 minutes for a 3 mb song lol*

6mb/s? Be proud/ 1.5mb is still pretty fast for Australia. I think the average would probably hit somewhere around 400kb/s and the fastest easily obtainable is 8mb/s.

[forrie]

Yeah... like a 75 Y.O. Oldies could use these 40gb/s correctly...
I need that connection, It could make my quest of downloading every anime really easier, my 6mb/s isn't enough for a good use ... 15 to 30 minutes for 175 mb... Too slow... :rofl: *yeah I can remember the time when it was taking about 10 to 15 minutes for a 3 mb song lol*

you sure your only d/l anime mate ;)

[whiz]

There are certain places in Canberra where you can be sure that the slowest part of your connection to the Internet is the 100meg interface at your computer. ( Oh for a "gigabit" network card with it's theoretical gig and 350meg reality at that time)
I've been directly connected to Internet 2 on several occasions at over 2.4 gigabit for the backbone.
I've downloaded FreeBSD Iso images from the aarnet mirror in less than sixty seconds.

Once you exceed the bottlenecks of either the read speed from the remote computer or write speed from your computer (provided that you're actually saving the info) then the connection speed in between is rather pointless.

The screenshots of the downloads are good for showing off to your friends, but there is very very limited information available to the average person with current technology that will take advantage of that bandwidth.

100meg of real bandwidth will support 10 streams of broadcast quality video conferencing on my laptop via the AARNET Access Grid.

It makes the average webcam look rather pathetic. Considering that I was participating in a worldwide setup via Internet 2, it showed what a fast backbone was capable of.
(mind you, my laptop took 30 seconds to respond to mouse clicks as it was running XP, but when it was rebooted into FreeBSD, with the same load, the response was instant).

Until the average person can have technology at home which requires the full continuous bandwidth of 100 meg, having any faster is just a load of crap.

55meg can run TWO channels of high definition video quite comfortably.
64k can run extremely high quality voice data with old technology.

Two people trying to share the Internet's pr0n repository would still have a near impossible task saturating a real gigabit connection between two computers with ultra fast spinning disk hard drives.
(We're not talking the misnamed "gigabit" network cards either. We're talking a gig worth of bandwidth, which these cards don't get to.)

So while you're lusting after these high speed connections, consider that they're not everything.
People that already have 100meg fiber connections rarely saturate them.

I want more BSA's (Bandwidth Sucking Applications) because then people will want more bandwidth, then they'll buy more networking gear and my Cisco shares will increase in price again!

That's just my jaded and experienced 2 cents.

[User-Name]

be able to download a full high-definition DVD in just two seconds.

I'd have so much porn. something for every occasion

[burt666]

I'd have so much porn. something for every occasion

...and god knows u have some imagination!!:o

[alexvpaq]

6mb/s? Be proud/ 1.5mb is still pretty fast for Australia. I think the average would probably hit somewhere around 400kb/s and the fastest easily obtainable is 8mb/s.
yeah but I can't get over 600 kb/s when downloading... -_-
but at least, the connection is always smooth, but the computer isn't good enough I think... they are suppose to update the connection soon to 10 mb/s so I should get 1mb/s of power to download if it follows what I can see... 1/10th of the power can be used to download ant the other 9 tenth will be used to stream stuffs... :rofl:

[Marcus]

It amazes what makes the news these days.

[Liam]

yeah but I can't get over 600 kb/s when downloading... -_-
but at least, the connection is always smooth, but the computer isn't good enough I think... they are suppose to update the connection soon to 10 mb/s so I should get 1mb/s of power to download if it follows what I can see... 1/10th of the power can be used to download ant the other 9 tenth will be used to stream stuffs... :rofl:

I never get over 180kb/s... :(

[Progen]

I never get over 180kb/s... :(

I'm feeling better already. :rofl:

[alexvpaq]

I'm feeling better already. :rofl:
I went up to 350kb/s about an hour ago while downloading the latest Claymore episode... But just before I downloaded an episode of another anime in 10 minutes at 600kb/s :silly:

[Liam]

I'm feeling better already. :rofl:

Up until 6 months ago, my downloading average was 25kb/s, so I still think 1.5mb is pretty much rocking. :silly: