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Re:Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at... by plorkyeran on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @12:23AM (#4782138)
Yeah, my brief experience with a gigabit connection in school was pretty underwhelming. I could break 50 MB/sec down with bittorrent, but a lot of websites couldn't even hit 1 MB/sec and even CDNs rarely broken 10 MB/sec.
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Re:Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at... by est on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @12:39AM (#4782170)
BitToreent should utilized more building next generation high speed Interweb. Deliver gigs of multimedia in microseconds.
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