omfg

/me moves to Canberra

From that page:

data connection to your Internet Service Provider at speeds of up to 100 times faster than a standard (56kbps) modem*

Phwoar, that's ~500k/s - almost as fast as Optus @ Home! :)

u just got smacked

hmm...

my brother emailed me just an hour ago with some news re: his current project. it involves fibre-optic to the household, and TransACT. it's a service that will be offered alongside their VDSL network.

i can't seem to find any other stats on their page atm re: optic/f, with the exception of one of the news bulletins dated May last year - although the report gave no specifics. More like hype.

More facts as they come :)

i was "surfing the web" the other day, looking @ connection types and speeds i suggest this to you all..

WAIT TILL YOU CAN GET AN "OC-42" CONNECTION

OC-42 is the fastest connection available - 9.6gb/sec

unfortunatly i also say this - atm all residential places can only get connections @ 1.5mb/sec max.

adsl can theroretically dl @ 8mb/s+ but has been capped to 1.5mb/s due to us law etc.

anyway.. thats my 2 cents, man i wish i owned an IPS - i wanna OC-42 connection..

btw, ne1 know what speed webcentral/qgl hosters/whoever they are are connected to the world?

man thats going over board
optus uses a 1.27gb connection for their games

i know it is overboard - and no s*** like that is avail. in oz atm.. but how sweet would that be.. true lag-free gaming.. mmmm :P

Will some-one please tell me why there restrictions placed on what speed conection a residence can have.

It sounds kind of anti progress to me.

It's to stop people from downloading massive amounts of pr0n.

oc42 is the fastest connection you can get at all

an OC3 (ds3) is. Its just a single guage optic. Anything above OC-3 is just multiple channels

The theoretical limit to the connection is about oc-256 i was told

funny that, my ata66/100 hard drive cables cant move anywhere near 9gig of data/second

so where you gunna get all this magical data from to actually transfer that fast?

close, its OC-255 with speeds around 13.21 Gbps...

*hey babe, checkout my copious amounts of bandwith, lets get it AWN!*

where'd you hear about OC-42? havent heard of it, considering OC-48 nets around 2.488 Gbps i doubt your right.

hrm that sort of makes sense
this guy in america had an OC3 in his house for a short time

DuNno?, i thought OC-3 was STS3 and T3 was DS3

Why the hell are ppl always complaining about things? FFS enjoy waht you have while you still have it, yes performance upgrades always rock but f***. Use what you have. ooher

Actually the current fastest is OC-768 - which supports 39.82 Gbps.

Unfortunately I don't think they've got a dekstop NIC for it yet.

Sounds like a NASA connection...

I doubt NASA would have anywhere close to that - they'd be running a few 2400 baud modems strapped to their satellite dishes to talk to their satellites ;)

Deutsche Telecom have one though, and they are huge.

FeDX, no fair OC-768 isn't out yet is it? ...and what about:

OC-3072 at 159.252 Gbps
OC-768 w DWDM 6.4 Tbps (Dense Wave Division Multiplexing)

i'm fairly sure theres even faster, i remember hearing of something theoretically doing 75 Tbps... thats rather fast :P

Errr

75 Terrabytes per Second?

They don't even f***ing make hard drives near that huge... yet =)

/me hands Einstein a raid array
:)

hilikus, as I said Deutcshe Telecom already have an OC-768 and as for OC-3072 and any DWDM on high OC-Xs, they're all just on paper and in labs at the moment. The quote I saw on OC-768 w/ DWDM was that one strand of fibre could provide enough badwidth for an active internet connection to every household in the United States. Now THAT'S what I'm talking about..

FeDX

yer, could supply 22.5 kbps of bandwith to every single person in the U.S... awesome stuff

yeah DWDM is some AWESOME stuff, they've tested 512 lambadas(colours of light) over a single fibre @ 4.8Gbps per lambada = many TB of data per second.

they reckon they can get 5000 lambadas on a single fibre in the "not to distant future"

i thought it was 10Mb ?

remember with all these speeds, there's a limit to how fast your hdd can write.
most of us reach that when leeching on a 100mbit lan.

some scsii's are fast, but then the person your leeching off has to have one just as fast, then you've got fragmentation etc to take into account.

that 75TBps was some peer to peer uber data science lab thing, nothing remotely like a hdd was involved. But its still jaw dropping to think of leeching like that :)

The fastest I've ever leeched on lan, on late friday night setup at qgl in yeronga I leeched 1.2GB trainspotting DivX off boba's machine over the switch in 45 seconds (least that's what the box in windows said, and it counted down in realtime).

Over the net, a fast connection would rawk, even if you dont get blazing speed everywhere, you have the bandwidth to get semi blazing from everywhere at once. Problem with all those connections, they are in no way meant for the home user communications companies charge for the use of the networks they lay and massive transfers would cost you a pretty packet.

check out HOW STUFF WORKS

look in the dsl section, then links to speeds or whateva..

for all you non-believers..

cya

Yeah notice it says US Federal Law? As much as they think they set the trnd for the rest of the world (look no further than the DeCSS case for proof of this), it is in fact US households that are supposedly limited.

As for hard drive writing speeds, these OC-X connections won't be used for linking PCs together - more like optical-switched networks. Currently gigabit NICs are availalble for pcs - in the order of $2000 a pop, but you'll need a pretty special server-based motherboard to move anywhere near that amount from your hard dive to you network.

hahaha, i think it's f***ING FUNNY that all u ppl get SO excited over flashy lights under the ground... ROFLMAO!!! look at the excitement of these posts and TELL me that they're not geeks (soz squarks :P)

yer i've got cable... f***ed if i know how it werks, its good to play games wif...

ciau

Yep, I'm a geek and proud of it - I find it a refreshing change to read an informative thread on this forum for a change instead of the usual "CS sux/q3 is gay" drawl that is covered on average in every second post.

Oh and am I mistaken or did you create a thread in honour of your 200th post? At least flashing lights under the ground have some bearing on the future.

FeDX