Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 week agoThat sounds like a coax network instead of fiber.
Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 week agoThat sounds like a coax network instead of fiber.
dan@upvote.au 6 days ago
It sure does, but AFAIK it was only available to houses that use fiber (FTTP) until recently. My mum could only get 250Mbps max over the coax network before (Aussies refer to it as “HFC” - hybrid fiber and coax).
They do have a 1000/250 plan but it’s ridiculously expensive compared to the “standard” 1000/25
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
My ISP used to advertise about fiber because their backend is fiber but residential connections are coax with DOCSIS whatever. Over of the downsides is assymetric up/download speeds. Upload gets reduced to favour download and you get these whack ratios.
dan@upvote.au 6 days ago
This is amusing because practically every backend is fiber. You need it for speeds above 10Gbps, and all ISPs will have at least 40Gbps or 100Gbps connections in their data centers, sometimes even faster (QSFP can do up to 400Gbps).