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  • The Speed of False Hopes - (101 gigabit per second data transfer...3 DVDs per second)

    12/13/2004 9:32:26 PM PST · by CHARLITE · 11 replies · 870+ views
    TECH CENTRAL STATION.COM ^ | DECEMBER 13, 2004 | DUANE D. FREESE
    Talk about speedy. Last month, a competition among physicists produced a 101 gigabit per second data transfer -- a rate that would enable downloads of three DVDs per second or the whole library of Congress in 15 minutes. Put another way, it's about 1.8 million times faster than your standard 56Kbps dial up and about 67,000 times faster than Verizon's $29.95 digital subscriber line (DSL) download speed -- one movie every 6 hours, if you please. Which is one reason that some Internet fans, rather than going, "Golly gee" might be excused for responding to the news with a grudging,...