Submitted 1 day ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/54702508
Meanwhile, Telia in Estonia: “The Estonian customer doesn’t prioritize connection speeds or prices, that’s why we don’t need to offer competitive speed/price ratios compared to what we have in other European countries”
Written in Switzerland from my 25GBps symmetric connection (for like 60$/month) that I have for a couple of years 🤷♂️
Also for personal use the difference between 1Gbps and 25 (or, I guess, 100GBps) is essentially zero… your everyday connection is via WiFi (good luck to get more than 1GBps there) or on a home server/NAS/workstation where likely you run batch jobs where the difference between 1 minute or 5 minutes is not a huge deal (and yes I am not saying 1 vs 25 because at that speed generally the bottleneck is the place where you are getting data from)
I have symmetrical 10 Gbps at home ($30/mo) and I’ll agree. When it’s nice when you have big updates, for most households 1 Gbps is going to be just fine. As you say, the vast majority of users are bottlenecked by Wi-Fi.
The bigger crime are all the asymmetrical connections that people on technologies like Cable TV networks have, where you get 1-2 Gbps down but only something tiny like 50 Mbps up. This results in crappy video calls, makes off-site/remote backups unfeasible, etc etc.
data drive arrays are so fucking slow
I swear to god! half of my job at work is waiting for the platter drives to give the data to the solid state arrays on the other side of a fiber connection
AT&T still hasn’t installed fiber in my old neighborhood where one of their lines cuts straight through a row of houses that conveniently do get fiber, while everyone else is stuck on cable.
Did I mention they received billions in federal funding to upgrade everyone?
So they received money for something they didn’t do. They should pay those back.
American companies being welfare queens, imagine that.
But someone at AT&T would have to sell their yatch
We already have private 100gbps in Australia and our public network just trialled it last year so rollout is expected this year.
Why is anyone celebrating 50gbps? I can’t imagine Australia is anywhere near leading here.
This is for PON technology. 1 fibre can be split 32-ways to feed, you guessed it, 32 customers. 50g over a fibre that is split 32-ways with a minimum of 15db loss is impressive.
I guarantee those 100gbps circuits are a single fibre all the way from the provider to the customer. And they are expensive, very expensive.
Come on mate, internet in Australia is pretty shit after the NBN fiasco. Let me know when any of those those 100gbps lines reach 1gbps xD.
This would be for a business, surely? I can’t imagine any individual having a use case for those speeds.
I can get 8 gigabit symmetrical if I want to, but I don’t.
It’s up to the ISPs what plans they sell. But cost wise it would be so prohibitive that only a business would buy it for the first few years for sure.
Chinese infrastructure developing is truly impressive. I guess that’s one benefit of being in an imperial dictatorship.
It feels like they are using this presidency to get as far ahead as they can.
Not just this one. But I think you are overestimating such improvements over strategic ones that the US is still doing more. Say, Starlink really turning into some sort of planetary cell network.
They are ostensibly a one party state, not a dictatorship. While Xi is the paramount leader, he claims he isn’t a dictator and I totally believe him.
They are ostensibly a one party state, not a dictatorship.
This sentence feels so Soviet.
What do you think would happen if he started doing things the people able to recall him didn’t like?
Those will be some hot NICs.
Is there a community for that? Asking for a friend.
So 50Gbps internet.
BRB moving to China
KC starts the beta for 50gig next month.
Because everyone there uses the Internet?
Yeah no one uses the internet over there, but they’re doing it anyway just to shit on Verizon
I probably shouldn’t have posted it that way. I’ve been to Bejing, but I picture a lot of rural rice farmers just NOT part of the Internet and of course with censorship rampant, I just figure, why so fast? Sounds like flexing. But maybe I’m wrong.
Well, at least they’re doing it quietly.
That’s cool, but all the important stuff doesn’t take much.
What would anyone need 50Gb for?
Like seriously, what would that get you what you can’t do now?
My local Network adapter isn’t half that fast
That’s the thing, it’s hard to imagine what we’ll use it for until it’s available.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
50gbps **shared line using passive optical splitters. Bit misleading there Chona, nobody is getting an actual 50gbps connection to their house.
M137@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
“Chona”
Hahah.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Getting real tired of these „China is 30 years ahead of us“ clickbait headlines on an almost daily basis. They‘re always completely overblown and sadly really warp the public perception of the country and their government.
kalleboo@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Most residential fiber currently is GPON with a 2 Gbps shared line using passive optical splitters, split up to 32 ways. Raising that shared line to 50 Gbps is a great upgrade.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Its not that out of this world, though it is currently completely unneccessary. 10gb+ has been somewhat common residentially for years.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’m sure the hardware for 50Gbps optics wouldn’t be cheap for the consumer 🤣
cybersin@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
Enterprise adopted 100GbE networking around 2019. You can now buy used network cards for around $100 each.
will_a113@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
The “innovation” in the article is passive tech for fiber to the room (FTTR), specifically made to be low cost and easier to implement. It’s also how your computer might get that 50Gbit - it’ll have to be wired in with a fiber connection. It’s not happening over WiFi (or even Ethernet)