Researchers from Tokyo University have succeeded in breaking the Internet downloading speed record, not once but twice in a matter of just two days. The researcher’s team was sponsored by Internet2, a research company run by 200 US universities.

The researchers began their record attempt by creating a network path of over 30,000 km, crossing six international networks and covering three quarters of the Earth’s circumference.

The operators of the high-speed Internet2 network announced that the researchers first managed to send data at 7.67Gbps using standard communications protocols.

The very next day, the team once again broke the record by sending data over the same 20,000-mile path at 9.08Gbps, using modified protocols.