Where can I get Gigabit Ethernet connection speed?

Where can I get an internet connection that can take full advantage from a Gigabit Ethernet card? With the speed of 1 Giga bit per second or 125 Mega byte per second, it would be like browsing the whole net from your harddrive with no delay at all. My top DSL speed is 500 kilo byte to 1 Mega byte per second and that's already very fast.

 

Simply stated, you don't. Also, bandwitdh isn't measured in megabytes per second, it is measured megabits per second. 1MB = 8Mb.

 

Yes bits are bits versus bytes is a big deal...heh heh

 

Gigabit ethernet is for transfer within a network, not to get online.

 

I know but I think all bandwidth should be measured in bytes, not bits since most people think about bytes when measuring file sizes. Specifying the speed in bits would make the speed looks faster in the eyes of most consumers who don't know the difference between bits and bytes.

For example, most people think that they would get 56 kilo byte per second download speed from a 56 K modem, which is absolutely not true. It's 7 kilo byte per second max or a bit slower due to FCC regulation regarding max data transfer speed over regular phone line.

 

OK, but even if you get data transfer that high, would the hard drive become the bottle neck? I am not sure most hard drive is capable of receiving 1 giga bit per second or 125 mega byte per second.

 

You know how you can do it. Build you own Proxy server. Then tell it to cache everything. That's pretty much the only way you'll get what you want, except for the odd time you don't get a hit in the cache. Feed this server with a few FIOS lines and bots to crawl the net and a few thousand terrabyte harddrives you should have the internet in a single computer in a few years.

You did say you wanted GigE speed and surfing the internet on a single harddrive.

GigE can't saturate a modern 7200 RPM desktop harddrive as you'll never get the full 125Mb and a harddrive is nearing 100Mb on writes.

 

Tebore LMAO -- that is too Funny. In seriousness back to the OP's topic. I think an OC-192 would be as close as they could get to Gig-E internet speeds -- but I think that would break the bank. We have a fractional OC-3, and it isn't cheap...

 

Cat-6


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Well that doesn't help at all does it?

 

Cat-6 is a cable type not a speed.

 

actually, cat 6 is a standard.

 

Not at all, especially since CAT-5E was designed to handle gigabit ethernet. It is not necessary to use CAT-6 cables.