en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_countries_by_Internet_…
07. United States 274.16 19. Japan 212.06
According to this page, seemingly sourced from Ookla, US has way higher average speeds these days.
Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds
Shadow@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Pretty clickbait title to compare a lab speed to average internet. I’m sure it’s several million times faster than average Japanese internet too.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Subdivide6857@midwest.social 6 hours ago
This is yet another thing the Republicans have been attacking (funding for rural broadband providers). Our rural areas are actually extremely well covered. Most of the midwest is fibered up. My local co-op’s minimum offered speed is 350x350.
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Do you think Google Fiber made the average internet speed increase in part?
crank0271@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Wasn’t Google Fiber available in like, one town in Kansas? So I suppose yes, it did increase the average speed, but by a very small amount.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I feel they may have been something of a catalyst that got other providers to start upping the speed. At this point, a lot of service providers offer at least 1 gig download speeds, with fiber being synchronous often. Some places offer up to 10 gigs to residential.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
Its just got nothing to do with “internet”. That is the issue with the headline. Its just some random piece of fiber that isnt even connected to any wider network. Im assuming they just used big ass rolled up rolls of fiber connected to one another to get to the 1800km. There are no end user “internet” applications for it either. The only thing it could be used for is isolated connections between internet hubs or inside datacenters for local network.
Still impressive ofcourse but just doesnt have anything to do with “internet” in the end user sense.