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Re:Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network by ghoerz on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @05:37PM (#1116264)
The speeds are 1 gigabit connections. The Dark Knight Blu Ray was approx. 35GiB. At 1 gigabit connections speed it would take 280 seconds in a best case scenario.

That doesn't account for any network overhead and assumes the storage medium can write > 125MiB/s (Pretty much discounting all standard platter drives)

The 5-10 minute figure is reasonable.

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Re:Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network by andreyf on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @09:19PM (#1116682)
Jeez. Back in my day, movies were ~700MB. That way we could put them on these things called CDs. Ever hear of CDs? Damn kids.
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