>>Well, it has already been tested successfully. An entire movie can be downloaded in 5 seconds, over a distance of thousands of km.
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>>It is now a question of implementing the new technology, I think.
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>Hilmar,
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>You cannot download faster than your internet connection bandwidth allows. So I'm not sure how you come up with this number.
Of course. But the idea of "Internet 2" is to combine several new technologies. One important factor, of course, is having high-bandwidth connections. Another is to use more efficient protocols. Apparently, TCP is sometimes a sort of bottleneck for fast transfers - over the same high-speed connection, Fast TCP performed about 3 times faster than TCP.
I assume there are a few other technologies involved, as well. Come to think of it, if I were to download a file this fast, my computer couldn't even save it to my hard disk fast enough.
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