What is the highest possible internet speed?

I know there is slow and fast internet out there but what is the true limit to how fast the internet can be as if it were being sent to a standard home computer? And what is the fastest commercially available connection that you can buy from a service provider?

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asked Jun 06 '10 at 18:00

snack pack88
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edited Oct 12 '10 at 16:47

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4	The current world record stands at 16.4Tbps, that is 100 HD movies downloaded every second. answered Jun 06 '10 at 18:02 dylanspronck 3.8k●36●58●104

2	This is in only available in a few area's but Google Fiber is supposed to be 1Gbps. It will soon spread it's coverage area. answered Jun 06 '10 at 18:02 Cateye Productions 2.3k●9●23●53 Why was this down voted? (Oct 12 '10 at 16:59) TheTechDude

I believe that Faster than Light Speeds will be eventually be reached, thus breaking Time Barriers!!!

What's the Fastest Speed that a CPU can ever reach?

"... a time-computer would not actually fly through the centuries, of course. It would simply transmit information back in time to itself, allowing instant solutions to problems that would take an ordinary supercomputer billions of years to solve ..." says Todd Brun, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.

If you got an email from your future self, what would you do?

"... Stop shaking your head in doubt. When we look into the night sky, look at the stars, we are seeing the past. We are seeing stars light from light years ago. So, enough of the physics lesson ..."

answered Oct 12 '10 at 19:01

r0bErT4u
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Well, surpassing the speed of light wouldn't take you back in time... it would also be very dangerous as you would have no time to turn if you were about to hit an object.... provided that you don't turn into energy as theoretically suggested at the speed of light. But let me explain how it would be if there was no hazards whatsoever in the process. You would surpass the speed of light, you would pass the light from the sun that is reflected on the Earth, and you would be able to look back at it, and see what happened in the past.. you would not be able to change anything that happened though. Remember, the Universe is extremely humungous, and the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second... okay, that's why we have things we call light years, the amount of time it takes light to travel in a year. Another alternative to surpassing the speed of light and looking back in time would be to take a wormhole to another point in space and time. Einstein said that the fabric of space and time can bend.. that means that when you think you're going across a straight line in reality, but in the fabric of space and time, it might go up and make a U-turn. That point on that U, which is what we'll use as an example, the left side an the right side, rather than traveling that whole line of the U, a wormhole would cross between that empty space in the U, from left to right, rather than all the way around. But, you would be compacted to the size of an atom if you were to go through one though -- in theory.

(Oct 12 '10 at 19:26) AppleHack23

Data is breaking time barriers.

(Oct 12 '10 at 19:38) r0bErT4u

That's data transfer speeds. That isn't a physical atom.

(Oct 12 '10 at 19:47) AppleHack23

Most likely, data (light) will be sent back in time via man made black holes ...

I guess data didn't actually travel faster than the speed of light, to break time barriers =0p...

(Oct 12 '10 at 19:58) r0bErT4u

I don't think so. It will probably keep growing. It's really up to how much the cables that connect to your modem can transfer, and then even if those are really, really fast the backbone could be slow and slow the whole thing down.

So it is pretty much just constant upgrading and I don't think there will ever be an end to it.

answered Jun 06 '10 at 18:02

Liam Quade
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edited Oct 12 '10 at 17:15

0	Theoretically someday... as fast as the speed of light! answered Oct 12 '10 at 18:24 Zlpha 4.6k●52●78●128

0	Here in Brazil the faster is 100mb. Of course that for Business and stuff you might get something faster. answered Oct 12 '10 at 19:28 rafaelpfreire 0●14●14●20

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