the whole intarwebs

[anivair.livejournal.com]

The employees here are always joking that I must be downloading hte whole internet, since I regularly take up huge ammounts of bandwidth getting OS's and patched, programs and the like. I'm sure some of you out there get the same thing.

So I wonder how long it would take to download the whole internet. Assume a T1 connection (because to do otherwise would be painful). Anyone have an estimate? I'll bet there's data on this somewhere. And I'd like to be able to throw a figure back at them. For example, "Yes. I'm downloading the WHOLE INTERNET. I should be done by May r3d of next year."

Comments

[torkell]

This causes a problem: the exponential rate of growth means that whatever connection you have, it won't be enough. Unless, of course, you happen to have a OC-12884901888 or similar (good for 629145.6 Tb/s).

[anivair.livejournal.com]

True, but still I say it's worth knowing how long it would take currently (which, if the above is correct, is somehting approaching two hundred thousand years).

[jecook]

Actually, with OC192, one is hitting the limit as to how fast you can push the optical to electrical transceivers (both the TX and the RX components).

OC192 has been around for a while, actually. Unfortunately, the prices for that interface is still tremendous.

IIRC, a Juniper OC48 FPC2 interface card for the M160 was something like 250K, and that was back in 2002.