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eviltwintomboy t1_itt9jqy wrote

Hopefully Comcast reads this and realizes they’re a little slow /s

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Jeraimee t1_ittevma wrote

Not sure that's an actual sarcastic comment. I think it's a hope and prayer LOL

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scraz t1_itvhakw wrote

Comcast only responds to competition. They will fuck you as long and hard as they can.

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Myfartsonthefloor t1_itvpke7 wrote

Had Comcast business —- absolute fuxking joke. Had to sign a 2 yr contract on the promise that I’d have “special dedicated service as a business customer”.

Checked out ATT fiber. I went from 15 mbps down/10 mbps up for 220$/mth to 900 mbps up and down for $90/mth

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Killeramn-26 t1_ity1jxq wrote

Then again you should not compare a dedicated service with a regular internet service. Two different services.

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RogerMexico t1_ittcs0e wrote

TLDR: it didn’t transfer the entire internet, it actually transferred 1.84 petabits in a synthetic test, which is just 230 TBs.

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deputytech t1_ittd7nj wrote

Otherwise known as my buddy Jerry’s porn collection.

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Badtrainwreck t1_ittdugb wrote

Only 230TB? Oh too be young again

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ask_me_about_my_band t1_itty7ez wrote

I go through hard drives like they were packs of cigarettes.

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nzodd t1_itw2tnw wrote

all those linux ISOs aren't going to download themselves

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ArchyModge t1_itte8yn wrote

The article never claimed to transfer the entire internet. It just said it transferred data equivalent to the average internet traffic per second.

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RogerMexico t1_itth7os wrote

Right, I should probably reword it but I'll leave my original comment up.

Point is that the that's there's no practical way to get all of the internet into that chip. This is a synthetic test and there is no way to collect all of the world's internet traffic with a chip like this, which is what I believe the title is provoking.

It's kind of like saying a 12" pipe transferred all of Niagara Fall's water, when it really just shot out a gallon of water at supersonic speeds for a split second.

The title really should say something like: "A single chip has managed to transfer data at a rate equivalent to the entire internet's traffic in a single second"

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bsloss t1_itw16aq wrote

This isn’t really related to the main conversation, but shoving water through a pipe at ridiculously high speeds and pressures actually has several interesting problems which essentially limit the maximum amount of water that can go through a pipe per second. https://what-if.xkcd.com/147/

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Mupp99 t1_itx15n6 wrote

The way it said transfer something in a second implied a fixed amount of data in a second rather than matching a speed for a second.

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ArchyModge t1_itx2fe8 wrote

The title is stupid. They should’ve said something like “A single chip and fiber optic cable transferred the equivalent of the internet’s traffic”.

Traffic is a rate (data/second) so saying it was done “in a second” is misleading, confusing and redundant.

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Cute_Suggestion_598 t1_itthpwd wrote

Makes me wonder just what kind of data array they had that could read that much data in one second.

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465sdgf t1_ittu0lb wrote

The title says "entire internet's traffic" not the entire internet.

The title is just as short of a TL;DR and for this post is accurate.

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derprondo t1_itw6r9v wrote

No mention of what really matters, packets per second. They could have been slinging 1TB packets.

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Agent_Paul_UIU t1_itwqifz wrote

Oh. I thought for a sec, that chip saw a lot of porn. Nevermind.

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RogerMexico t1_itxawci wrote

This just made me question the notion that all internet traffic is just 1.8Pbps (200 TB per second). Maybe that’s just the non-porn traffic.

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rSpinxr t1_ittndy7 wrote

Wait, you mean it didn't magically transmit all the data from all over the connected world to one location in an instant?

/s

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Current_Individual47 t1_itukld5 wrote

1.84 PB != 230 TB

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Nahvec t1_itulojf wrote

technically true, but like they said 1.84 Pb = 230 TB

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jbman42 t1_itxank3 wrote

1.84 petabits/second - speed

230 terabytes - total size of the experiment

Basically they transferred it all in a fraction of a second, so the title shouldn't say (in a single second) because it's inaccurate, but it's otherwise correct.

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EarthLoveAR t1_ittj31k wrote

then why do i have a coworker that can't share their screen and have their camera on at the same time?!

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words_of_j t1_itu9kl6 wrote

False headline in an ebullient attempt to gain clicks.

No…. The chip can TRANSMIT those data speeds. It says nothing about data TRANSFER. Nothing about latency, transmission media delays, receiver hardware and how the data can be captured and stored.

All of these can be developed but haven’t been yet, I think.

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Phosphorjr t1_itvasz7 wrote

from other articles, it was across a 5 mile wire

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Vexelius t1_ittek0r wrote

This made me think of Freakazoid!

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turbotum t1_itttgh3 wrote

popsci can do anything in the world except leave the lab. I'm not getting my hopes up yet.

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2Panik t1_itt9rji wrote

Wander how they have so much data to play with.

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teryret t1_ittb962 wrote

We live in a time where you can always tell it's a human, because the robots are better writers.

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erosram t1_ittigrf wrote

They will learn this trick as well

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DrSueuss t1_ittct3m wrote

They can test by creating synthetic data (test data they create).

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ArchyModge t1_ittebui wrote

They just transferred every COD game ever made.

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DneSokas t1_itutfrt wrote

Could easily be something like a few days of LHC data or a year of night sky survey, it takes decades to go through all the information those things produce.

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phine-phurniture t1_ittbl2f wrote

Singularity anyone?

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DrSueuss t1_ittd5ev wrote

They transferred so much porn that it will take 6 months, 433 boxes of tissue, and 212 gallons of lotion to analyze the data.

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an-can t1_itu3ylc wrote

The term is "titlegore" I believe.

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Legofan970 t1_itw07tx wrote

That would actually be a meaningful statement, it means that your car can accelerate by 200 MPH every hour.

That would be a pretty crappy car, taking 15 minutes to reach 50 MPH.

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ElCapitanAbrasivo t1_ittfm42 wrote

Cool trick. Now make something to store it even half that fast.

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Scooji t1_itvuy0c wrote

Cia foaming at the mouth for that id say

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75thAltToday t1_itwt1wp wrote

The ISP cartel will choke it down to the throughput of a floppy drive by the time it gets to the modem in the corner of your room.

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kylmith t1_ittkby3 wrote

Anddddd now it's being used for porn.

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onehundredcups t1_ittm80k wrote

That’s a lot of porn… We’re living in the future now!

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Geminii27 t1_ittvbuu wrote

I'm gonna need five of those.

For... reasons.

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font9a t1_itum46i wrote

"I can write a single number on a napkin that represents the entire internet and hand it to you. There, I just transferred every bit of information on a napkin."

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Renovateandremodel t1_ituva6r wrote

Too bad there is lag time in switches and nodes. On the bright side some hedge fund is going to make a brick load of cash being that much quicker.

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Rotterddoom t1_itv325d wrote

I'm sure my nodes must be flapping still

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Loki-Don t1_itwb7hu wrote

Great, where do I pick one up? - Pornhub

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rimshot99 t1_itwx12i wrote

Hey OP, your mom can now finally get her Papa John’s order through.

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Melodic_Ad_8747 t1_ittec8y wrote

Literally useless because nothing it interfaces with is capable of sending or reading from it.

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StaticFanatic3 t1_ittfh53 wrote

Welcome to experimental technologies. This is required for progression. They didn’t say come buy one today.

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ocinn t1_itth1l4 wrote

Clearly single source to single recipient is not the intended goal here. Obviously no current storage system can operate at that bandwidth

This is clearly a technical demonstration and the theoretical application would be divided amongst hundreds or thousands of clients…..

Technical demonstration ≠ suggestion of a current application

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