New kind of internet "10.000 times faster"

[Skybird]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3689881.ece


THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.
At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.
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It means Britain alone has 8,000 servers on the grid system – so that any student or academic will theoretically be able to hook up to the grid rather than the internet from this autumn.
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The real goal of the grid is, however, to work with the LHC in tracking down nature’s most elusive particle, the Higgs boson. Predicted in theory but never yet found, the Higgs is supposed to be what gives matter mass
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Although the grid itself is unlikely to be directly available to domestic internet users, many telecoms providers and businesses are already introducing its pioneering technologies. One of the most potent is so-called dynamic switching, which creates a dedicated channel for internet users trying to download large volumes of data such as films. In theory this would give a standard desktop computer the ability to download a movie in five seconds rather than the current three hours or so.


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[FIREWALL]

Good find Skybird :up: That is flat amazeing. :yep:

[bookworm_020]

Think of the level of spam your email box will receive after this!:o

[Graf Paper]

I'm not so sure about this.

In the last episode of "Lexx" it was stated that entire universes have been exterminated by the search for the mass of the Higgs-Boson particle. The quantum computer used reached a critical mass so great it annihilated all matter. :o

On the bright side, you could download the entire MGM film library before we all went "poof!". :p

[Steel_Tomb]

Thats quite a breakthrough. Makes my 8mb seem a tad slow! Thinking back to when we were all on 56k, how did we ever cope!?! :hmm:

[kiwi_2005]

Yea thats bloody amazing, the pirates will be smiling. Imagine what this could do to online gaming will our pings be always zero ping?

[Graf Paper]

Seriously, though.

At the glacial pace ISPs have adopted broadband and still giving us far less for our money, do you really expect this amazing new internet to reach us in less than 10 years and at less than $150 per month when it is introduced at one-tenth of its potential bandwidth?

Not to mention the whole issue of copyright/profits will mean aggressive use of throttling, sandvining, and copy protections so invasive that your system will essentially be a remote slave to their monitoring systems. For an inkling of this future, just look at the kernel-level DRM built into Vista and its numerous restrictions on media playback using only certain types of software and hardware in order to curb "illegal" copying of video and music.

I'm fairly certain that spam, piracy, and porn will find ways in the future to clog the massive bandwidth offered by this new technology even as companies find new ways to restrict how much you can do with your computer.

[Steel_Tomb]

Its the endless cycle of cat and mouse though. As long as companies create invasive "protection" (can anyone say starforce?) there will always be those finding ways to bypass them. When WGA came out originally my mate Andy said that within 24 hours there were already guides and cracks appearing on the internet to bypass it to M$'s disgust lol.

Personally, after I've PAID for a product, I deem it fair to make copies for myself as backup. I mean accidents do happen, and I'm not prepared to shell out more cash to these overpaid suits. But I suppose thats the name of the game. "Ubisoft - pissing on the little guy"

[peterloo]

I'm fairly certain that spam, piracy, and porn will find ways in the future to clog the massive bandwidth offered by this new technology even as companies find new ways to restrict how much you can do with your computer.

Spam would definite rise in number. Perhaps they will have pictures embedded or flash videos included to attract more people

Piracy is something that I'm uncertain. It might not rise in number, since video games and softwares has been growing in size as well. Consider SH3, which is about 2Gb, and 2 years later, SH4 volume has already doubled to 4Gb! Despite the fact that the new connection system is 10000 times faster, the technology needed to unleash its full potential will not be available soon. The same goes for porn. When people get higher bandwidth they start searching for better quality porns. Perhaps we will have HD porns several years later.

Its the endless cycle of cat and mouse though. As long as companies create invasive "protection" (can anyone say starforce?) there will always be those finding ways to bypass them. When WGA came out originally my mate Andy said that within 24 hours there were already guides and cracks appearing on the internet to bypass it to M$'s disgust lol.

No protection mechanisms is invulnerable. Even if they use activation, a crack or a dummy activation code will solve the problem. Vista got multiple protection mechanisms, but a fake BIOS fixes everything. Starforce has been cracked for ages, and every video games today has its corresponding cracks. The only success is spelt when a software can remain uncracked until it is phased out. Only a few software managed to suceed, through. Notable examples include

(1) Splitcher Cell: Chaos Theory (422 days)
(2) Norton 360 / 2007 (more than 200 days)

[SUBMAN1]

Crud! And I just had Verizon spray paint my yard with yellow orange and red lines all over the place. I hope it comes off my driveway. They come to install fiber optic tomorrow in the whole house. So are you saying I'm gonna have to do this again in a few months? :D

I opted for the slower connection for now 15 down / 7 up. I can increase that to 25 down / 15 up at any time for a bit more per month if I'm unsatisfied.

-S

[Jimbuna]

Thats quite a breakthrough. Makes my 8mb seem a tad slow! Thinking back to when we were all on 56k, how did we ever cope!?! :hmm:

It doesn't exactly ,ake my 20MB look that much better :lol:

[mapuc]

I wil just say this:

It doesn't take 3 hour to download a movie not even 1 hour*

*if the broadband is wide enough


Markus

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Sounds like a load of bollocks to me :hmm:

[Platapus]

Thats quite a breakthrough. Makes my 8mb seem a tad slow! Thinking back to when we were all on 56k, how did we ever cope!?! :hmm:

I remember reading computer magazines recommending that people do not invest in the new 2400 baud modems as they were predicting that the phone lines could not handle the data rate :)

I remember getting my first 300 baud modem that was direct connect wow! was I in the big time.

How things change in 25 years :o

[Monica Lewinsky]

I read some b.s. that the CEO of Comcast wants to see his company converting the current download speed of 4-8 meg/sec to 120 meg/sec download speed in an area of of 20% of the U.S. of A. in 2008. Found it intesesting he said NOTHING about the upload speed of Comcast - current or future. On a GOOD day I am capped with a 250-300k/second. If I have to upload something, it is better than dial up, but in 2008, it seems I am using a high speed ISDN line to upload something if anyone remebers what that was - ISDN.

[Skybird]

Thats quite a breakthrough. Makes my 8mb seem a tad slow! Thinking back to when we were all on 56k, how did we ever cope!?! :hmm:

I remember reading computer magazines recommending that people do not invest in the new 2400 baud modems as they were predicting that the phone lines could not handle the data rate :)

I remember getting my first 300 baud modem that was direct connect wow! was I in the big time.

How things change in 25 years :o

In Germany, companies advertise cable speeds of up to 16.000 MB/sec. However, almost nowhere in Germany the cable quality is such and the technical preconditions exist that these speeds ever get reached. Truth is that most people are stuck with 3.000 MB/sec, at best they get 6.000 in some rare regions. However, companies let customers pay for those additonal speed setting beyond 3.000. but customers pay for something they do not get. and in the small print, they are ripped of their legal possibilities to demand back their money, of course, there is in small letters a paragraph saying "16.000 only in regions were available". ;)

If you live in Germany and consider changing to a new company, do not buy anything that promises higher speeds than 3000, chances are 20:1 that you will only lose money.

3.000 is fast enough a speed, btw, it serves all my needs perfectly and displays websites in a second if cabletraffic really allows to reach 3000. Everything beyond that I compare to fox tails on antenna tips (German Manta-drivers know what I mean :lol:)

[mapuc]

Sounds like a load of bollocks to me :hmm:

NOT if you have 100/100 Mb/s

Markus

[Trex]

I'm with Graf Paper - all this is going to do is give those greedmeisters an excuse to raise my rates.