Everything High Speed From Internet Service Providers to Jets

If you’re looking for some thrill rides, then this may help you. We list down the top 5 fastest roller coasters in theme parks, not for the faint hearted! Tied on number four spot is “Superman: The Escape” of SixFlags in California and “Tower of Terror” in Dreamworld Australia, both with maximum speed of 100 miles per hour. Third is “Dodonpa” located at Fuji-Q Highland Park, Japan with speed at around 106.9 miles per hour. Top 2 is the “Top Thrill Dragster” roller coaster in Cedar Point, USA traveling at the speed of 120 miles per hour. And, the reigning fastest steel roller coaster is still “Kingda Ka” of SixFlags in New Jersey with the speed of 128 miles per hour.

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Kizuna Satellite, Japan is the fastest satellite internet on the planet. Providing approximately 1.2 Gbps with a purpose of providing speed boost and internet connection even on worst disaster zones and far reached areas in Japan and Southeast Asia. The service will roll out on July after its setup process and once in position. Kizuna satellite is equipped with 2 multi-beam antennas, one for Japan and neighboring countries while the other is for the rest f the country in the Aisa-Pacific region. Another remarkable advancement for Japan, now the question is, who will be the next country to follow the lead?

For over 40 years now since it first flew. SR-71 Blackbird still remains to be the fastest military jet-powered plane until now. The official record was Mach 3.3 but many believe that it can go faster than that from records. Although there is a handful attempts to break the record like X-43 of NASA’s experimental aircraft that failed and the mysterious Aurora spy plane that some claim to exist but unidentified until now while, the fastest commercial airline on record was the Tupolev Tu-144. The commercial airline was also used by NASA to design its so-called High Speed Civil Transport that was phased out in 1999 due to economic constrains.

Samsung just unveiled their 256GB solid state drive (SSD) using SATA II interface. They claimed this to be the world’s fastest and largest SSD. It has a read speed of 200 MB/s and write-speed of 160 MB/s, it’s faster than a typical hard drive. Mass production of the device is expected by the end of 2008. One best key feature of the device is the data encryption process that will prevent unauthorized access to the data stored. The size is much thinner and smaller than a regular HD. It’s only 9.5 mm thick and measures 100.3×69.85 mm.

How many words per minutes can you type? In Oregon, the fastest typist in the world made a record of 212 wpm speed with error frequency of only two-tenths of one percent, using a Dvorak keyboard. Barbara Blackburn still holds the record to be the fastest typist in the world. She worked at several law firms and offices. She even starred in a TV commercial by Apple and made a TV appearance at the David Letterman show. She died last April of 2008 holding the title of the fastest typist in the world that no one can break until today.

France holds the record to have the fastest wheeled train in the world. France’s TGV (Train Grande Vitesse) reach the speed of 357.2 MPH. Running at around 31,000 volts on test conditions. However, the train only runs at 300 km/hr on normal condition which is still the highest speed for regular passenger service. When it comes to Maglev trains or magnetically levitating train, China’s Shanghai Transrapid maglev holds the highest speed record reaching 581 km/h or 361 mph. That’s approximately 11 hours travel from east to the west coast of the US. The train was manufactured by a Japanese firm. It uses electromagnetic force to suspend and guide the train.

The world’s fastest residential internet connection can be found nowhere else but the world leader in globalization, Sweden. Sigbritt Löthberg, a 75-year old woman owns the fastest internet connection in the world. Her 40 Gigabits per second connection can download a full length high definition movie in just 2 seconds. What’s her secret? She is using a modulation technique that transfers data directly to two different routers two thousand kilometers apart. She is no ordinary woman either. Peter Löthberg, an internet legend in Sweden who now currently works for Cisco, is her son. The demonstration is to show that there are more possibilities out there more than the ordinary copper wire networks.

As the battle for market broadband user market share expands, users may end up being hurt by the push. According the the Fiber-to-the-home Council, content and service providers are utilizing more and more bandwidth to deliver what the end user wants — Video. As the internet evolves, video will play a bigger role in how information is delivered over the net. What this means to the consumer is that the gap between low-speed and high speed internet access will grow larger as the demand for bandwidth grows.

For those of you lucky enough to live in Missouri and Illinois, and are in the coverage zone, you can finally enjoy lightening fast high speed internet through Charter Max high speed internet’s new offering. And the rest of us will have to wait until a other broadband providers decide to upgrade their speed for the rest of the country.

Charter High-Speed Internet Max is considered their premium tier plan and claims to be up to 9x as fast as DSL and 270x as fast as dial-up. They also have slower plans with download speeds up to 10 Mbps & 5 Mbps. At least that is the claim. But with Verizon’s FiOS clocking in upwards of 15 Mbps, they most certainly are refering to Verizons regular dsl, att’s regular dsl, and other providers in their market place.

It is worth checking out if you are in the coverage zone.