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Story: Net speed record tumbles

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"This is more than 20,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection and is also equivalent to transferring a 60-minute compact disc within one second -- an operation that takes about eight minutes over a standard broadband connection. "

How is this possible? Even if no-one else is using your broadband circuit at the time the maximum download speed is max 512Kb/s, or in other words 64KB/s - meaning that 650MB (an average CD) would take over 10,000 seconds or nearly 3 hours to download, not '8 minutes'.

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