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Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Fri Mar 7 15:34:08 2003

Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:33:20 -0500
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <NDBBJJPLIGJGLBKILFIHOEKIJJAA.ekgermann@cctec.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:57:22PM -0500, Eric Germann wrote:
> 
> 
> http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/07/speed.record/index.html
> 
> Comments folks?

I can only hope that the researchers actually spent $2000-$4000 on moving
the gigabit of data, pocketed the rest, and are now living in a tropical
foreign country with lots and lots of drugs and women, because anything
else would just be too sad for me to contemplate.

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