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This post has been in heavy circulation on social media, making people feel bad about their relatively slow internet speed and hoping for a day that they too would be availing the internet at such astronomical speed.The Internet speed atis not 91 gigabits per second. That speed was achieved on a specific connection between SC13 inand the NASA Goddard facility induring an experiment. The experiment utilized the ESnet, which allows site to site file transfer at up to 100 gigabits per second, for two sites connected via ESnet.