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British Internet cafe sets speed record
At a remote satellite-transmission facility in Cornwall, BT is opening what's billed as the world's fastest Internet cafe. BT's Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, which attracts 80,000 visitors a year to the site on a remote peninsula in the southwest of England, is hooked directly into the British telecom firm's high-speed Internet backbone. By tapping right into the backbone rather than going through a series of local network links, the cafe's computers will let users surf at speeds of 100 megabits per second, which is 20 to 60 times faster than the typical home broadband connection. The cafe's not just an opportunity for BT to demonstrate its networking prowess: Apple and Cisco are also using it as a showcase for their technology. Then again, that's assuming anyone will travel to a remote peninsula in the U.K. just to surf the Net at 100 megabits per second.
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