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An old friend just sent me this note: “I live on the country-side of the northern part of the Netherlands. In this area, within 3 years, there will be places with an Internet connection of 26 terabytes per second. That is, I believe, 300.000 times [the speed of] ASDL. I have a lot of contacts with the project leader of Lofar, and am curious to find good, and very good ideas about what to do with an Internet connection of that speed. I believe it will be the fastest in the world.” What would you do with that kind of bandwidth?
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51 Comments
Anonymous
June 9th, 2007
at 5:38am
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Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 10:55am
I'd probably start a porn site and live on some island and rake in the profits. 'nuff said. :-)
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 10:56am
That's easy. P0rn.
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 10:56am
I'm not sure, but you can bet the porn industry will think of something 5 minutes later. :D
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 10:56am
Doh, 2 people beat me to it while I was thinking/typing. :(
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 10:57am
Great geeks think alike!
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 11:00am
I think everyone is having that idea.
Also, legitimate Film distribution over the internet?
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 11:00am
live HDTV.
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 11:02am
Seriously, though, I'm almost 100% certain that in another 3-5 years we'll start to see home users with harddrives at least 1 terabyte in size, along with RAM and processor speed to match. Perhaps a Supernet will be born, with fully-interactive web pages (and blogs, yipee!), updated constantly. Web content will get an upgrade, since with that type of connection you don't have to “scale back” as much as you have to now. Of course I don't see most of this happening immediately after that sort of connection is set up…it would take at least another 3-5 years for people to learn to exploit it fully.
Oh yah, the online games are going to rock, but I think that goes without saying.
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 11:04am
Actually, Matt, I think I read somewhere that a couple of the “big name” movie studios are already considering that idea. If I can find the article again I'll post it.
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 11:10am
First… that place is heaven. Am I right? Second… If I ever get to 'heaven', I would download all the stuff that I want such as mp3's that has the quality of DVD-Audio or SACD (or hell lot better). Live HDTV quality streaming media. Satelite and cable will go busted. Chris' spycams would be totally live, not captured into JPEG. Leoville will turn into a 'There' community. And maybe, the long download process will only occur if we'll download FOOD, or other GOODS off the internet and replicate them. But if you're the only one with a terabit connection and the net servers are still mega or gigabit, you'll still get that drag from downloading.
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 11:17am
What wouldn't one do with that kind of bandwidth?
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 11:22am
Hmm…downloading food…”Yah, I'll have two double-cheeseburgers and a medium order of fries” 2 seconds???? Come ON, what's the friggin' holdup??” Talk about fast food…
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 11:37am
That sounds like a croc of ya know what to me. Even the best technology right now can barely move a dvd in under a minute. A tb would far surpass that speed. I'm happy with my new wirelesss connection! 2mb up and down for 100 a month!
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 11:44am
If I wasn't responsible for bandwidth usage? I would set up an off shore, Library of Congress free Internet Radio company, with about 100 streams for every kind of tunes. Oh, and I'd run a porn site to cover the costs. Hehe.
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 11:46am
It's just funny how this little loser , has his own site , where he just post the most retared shit you can find. He was a loser on tech tv , and look at him now. I bet you anything they kicked him off tech tv , cause he couldn't do anything, he acted like a little kid. GO LEO GO. He ownz. Chris was a just a little rat, who acted has a mind of a 2 year old. Really grow up chris, you really need to , i hope you read this , and post back to this. If you don't your a real pussy , who can take the heat. Don't delete it as well. LOSER. Tell CAT , i want to fuck her.
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 11:50am
Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce you to Chris Gayrillo. If you're looking for an IP address to hack, he can be found at 24.156.11.10. Welcome to hell, assfuck.
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 11:51am
is that good?
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 11:55am
LOL, good one Chris!
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 11:55am
Silly Canadian….get 'em Chris! You don't fuck with family (Lockergnome that is).
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 12:02pm
Damned ontarians. Make the rest of us upstanding hack Canadian look bad.
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 12:18pm
I swear, this blog (comments, too!) never ceases to make me laugh my ass off! (especially on No Pants Friday)
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 12:20pm
hey, it looks like he has cable internet, so if i remember right, he has a static IP. so every one open a dos prompt and type
ping 24.156.11.10 -n 2000 -l 2000
and let it run!
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 12:31pm
Well, there are people with no-brain in our world…
And they show it too!
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 12:56pm
I had a meeting with my fellow Canadian Joe down the street, and it was unanimous… “Chris Gayrillo” has had his beer, moosehead, hockey stick and the right to say “eh” after any sentance revoked. Under advice of Joe (no, the other one, our attorney) we won't put in print what else we took from him…
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 1:04pm
Yay, Jodie! Now, can someone check out my hometown in Saskatchewan to make sure people like that didn't set up shop there while I'm gone?
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 1:12pm
Mmmmm…. Benton Fraser… Nice blog address Mike – how… Canadian of you ;-) And we'll keep an eye open for ya.
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 1:40pm
Well, I am in MB, so I might be close enough to keep a weary on out for people like that heading west to you, Mike.
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 1:58pm
Heh, anyone tried to download streaming media live over a 'normal (512Kb) DSL connection? Want to do something else? Forget it!
As for the retard, have some pings, lamebreath!
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 3:52pm
Jodie…”Thank you kindly”. :D I'll have to put on my Mountie uniform for the next cam pic, methinks. *chuckle*
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 4:40pm
Phew… at least that Chris Gayrillo guy isn't me….
Too bad he stinks it up for the rest of us Ontarians :(
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 4:53pm
Well, I guess I'd host a few game sites, mabye play a REAL online game of MechWarrior 4: Black Knight. Or, just set up a P2P file-sharing network with a small monthly fee…. Nah, make it porn…
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 4:58pm
Hey Yaps–
“Leoville will turn into a 'There' community.”
That would ROCK!
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 5:17pm
well if them austrailians figured out how to do that teleportation of physical objects by then, the porn industry would make life a lot more fun! wahoo! real life girls! :P
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 6:54pm
Man, I go out to enjoy the sunshine and I miss out on the IP spanking! Let me see if I can still patch through here goes…
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 7:50pm
Download all the CKY videos out there!!!
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 8:21pm
Sounds like Mr. Gayrillo is jealous there! Let's throw him a dictionary.
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 8:38pm
The mind is mightier then the pingÂ….it may be fun to ping the loser to death- but its not too fair to all the other “normal” people who his ISP serves.
Other people have to download porn too! ;-)
Anonymous
April 19th, 2003
at 10:53pm
Chris Gayrillo is an ass, he makes the rest of us Canadians look crappy dammit. lol good one for Chris PIRILLO for grabbing his IP…
Anonymous
April 20th, 2003
at 5:32am
interactive porn
Anonymous
April 20th, 2003
at 2:50pm
[dummy]Hey!! i can make your dial up connect @ 115.2kbps!!![/dummy]
aaha i've been told this and i couldnt stop laughing at them… i couldnt help myself. ANYwho, with that kind of bandwidth…… i plead the 5th *runs*
Anonymous
April 20th, 2003
at 7:07pm
Isn't the real problem with that much bandwidth the ability to recive as opposed to give? You can have a 'Pirillobyte' (that one just came to me – it's the cousin to the Pentabyte) pipe – but if the users have only 784K/bit/sec down – what good is it? However, with all that said – PORN (HD porn – hey – how about 3d-porn?) is the first use that comes to my mind.
Anonymous
April 20th, 2003
at 8:07pm
What the fuck Chris Gayrillo! Thank God the Great Gnome got you're IP address. May God give you one hell of a DoS attack! He can do it. He got the terabit connection we're talkin about!
LOL
Anonymous
April 22nd, 2003
at 9:45am
We'll be trading full-length movies the way we now trade MP3's. DVD's will be obsolete. I bet the movie studios are very nervous.
Anonymous
April 22nd, 2003
at 10:34am
What would I do with that kind of bandwidth?
Telep0rtation, baby! Dr. Brundle and I will be world-famous…
Anonymous
April 25th, 2003
at 1:47pm
So since I'm in my school's computer lab, I figured i'd do it. What does it mean when the request starts timing out over and over again?
:)
Anonymous
April 27th, 2003
at 8:15am
4-man bob-sled sounds plausible
Anonymous
April 29th, 2003
at 9:19pm
That much bandwidth? Webcams everywhere fun, from inside the fridge and under the hood of your car to gardens and goats…. Video chat rooms in real time. … Immersive gaming…. Do away with paper and scan everything…. But the biggest is better TV and computer display. Broaden digital video density 16-fold from 72 dots per inch to 300 dots per inch (competitive with print), and raise resolution from half a megapixel (1024×768) to wall size gigapixel (22000 x 50000).
Doug McFarlane
January 8th, 2008
at 8:39am
It will be the END of HARD DRIVES for personal use. You’ll rent HD space and boot from the internet, no longer ‘Download’ files, either store them on your virtual HD space, or from where you got them orginally.
And did that guy say he wanted to F$#@ a cat? I’m from Ontario too, and we hardly ever do that.
Doug McFarlane
January 8th, 2008
at 8:41am
What the? This thread is 3/4 of a year old! Nobody’s listening!
Doug McFarlane
January 8th, 2008
at 9:01am
Er, scratch that, didn’t notice 2003, 5 years old! Buy who am I saying this too?