Indeed, at ten gigabytes per second in both downloading and uploading, Thunderbolt is approximately twenty times faster then USB 2.0, and twelve times faster than FireWire 800.

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More than 5, 000 computers were set up to operate at high speed connections of 20 Gigabytes per second (average Mexican household connection speed is between 3 and 20 MB).

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The chip has a bandwidth of 300 gigabytes per second, which could conceivably process the download of the entire iTunes music catalog -- more than 5 million songs -- in about a minute.

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The AMS will collect 7 gigabytes of data per second and beam the information down to Earth for analysis.

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In 2001 Linux pranksters raced pigeons against a 40-gigabytes-per-second fiber line to test a concept a puckish American scientist first coined a decade earlier:CPIP--Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol.

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