How fast is the Internet?
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How fast is the Internet? A lot faster than most of us manage to ever experience, if the new Internet Land Speed Record set by a Tokyo University team is any measure.
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So just how fast did the Tokyo team data go? Well as far as IPv4 is concerned, the team managed 264,147 terabit-meters per second, transferring 2.98 terabytes of data across 30,000 kilometers of network in 45 minutes at an average rate of 8.80 gigabytes per second. Things got hotter when it came to IPv6 as you might expect, seeing 272,400 terabit-meters per second, transferring 585 gigabytes of data across 30,000 kilometers of network in 30 minutes at an average of 9.08 gigabits per second. Those 30,000 kilometers crossed no less than 6 international networks, or 75% of the circumference of the Earth. Full Story |
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