What’s the point though? With more and more trash content on the internet what would the bandwidth be used for? To force-feed people more ads?
Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds
Submitted 7 hours ago by Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
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raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
sdfric88@lemmy.sdf.org 1 hour ago
For better piracy 🥰
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Meanwhile in aus we get like 5 mb/s
;-;
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
Wow, it’s that bad?
I live in rural Pacific NW and just upgraded to 5gbit symmetric fiber.
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Only until you hit your data cap!
dan@upvote.au 55 minutes ago
Yeah Australia still hasn’t quite caught up to the internet speeds other countries had 15 years ago. It’s kinda sad. I’m still sad the original (good) NBN got replaced by the janky NBN that’s taken years to fix.
The other weird thing in Australia is that even the expensive fibre plans are asymmetric. Most countries that have fibre have a 1Gbps symmetric plan (meaning upload and download are both 1Gbps) whereas the 1Gbps NBN plan has a ridiculously low ~50Mbps upload speed.
I moved from Australia to the USA in 2013. Back then, I had ~9Mbps ADSL2+ in Australia, compared to 600Mbps in the USA. Huge difference. Now I’ve got 10Gbps symmetric in the USA for $50/month through a local ISP.
DancingBear@midwest.social 4 hours ago
Lol, does this mean there is one apartment building in Japan with a hundred units that uses more bandwidth than the entire United States 😂
deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 7 hours ago
transmitting over 125,000 gigabytes of data per second over 1,120 miles (1,802 kilometers).
Please include usable metrics in the title
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Round 37 of Dead Horse vs. Baseball Bat.
malloc@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Ignoring clickbait title, this is impressive. Networked devices used to be the limit on data transfer.
Are there any devices even capable at reading/writing at 125,000G/sec?
Seems breakthroughs here are more relevant to for backhaul networks.
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 3 hours ago
Most likely sending pseudorandom data so that the data can be validated at the other end.
Given they say it’s really 19 fibers in one, that’s really just 6,600Gb/s per fiber which is really just 4 colors per fiber with one of those and some amplifiers: www.fs.com/c/1.6t-osfp-infiniband-1392
Apparently those go into a watercooled switch. Those 1.6T NICs sound absolutely insane. Makes your home 10G network look strings and cans.
It’s not that insane in perspective. Probably still needs a whole rack of equipment to run just that test, but the technology is not too far off that it’s quite plausible.
youngalfred@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
The actual source: www.nict.go.jp
Not really an ‘internet’ world speed record, but really a wired data transmission record if I’m reading correctly.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It’s a record in data transmission. The medium doesn’t matter.
youngalfred@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
The title is ‘internet’, implying a network of networks. The title wasn’t ‘new record in data transmission speed’.
Almonds@mander.xyz 7 hours ago
Avg US speed is kind of silly to compare to isn’t it? I mean, in most of my state satellite is still the most reliable and that’s 100mb/s at most
adarza@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
more than half the households in my county do not have any high-speed wireline service available to them.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Once you become one with the high ping, you gain superpowers.
Godort@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
A crate full of microSD cards could deliver speeds like this with a ping time measured in hours
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
That superpower is mere strength just from slamming many keyboards/mice/controllers at the wall and/or floor.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I grew up with dial up. Now I have 75 mbps and it’s plenty enough except maybe for that one time once in a while where I’m downloading a game on Steam. I see no point of paying three times what I’m paying right now per month to get 300 mbps. Even if it’s available, even if it’s worth it.
Average internet speeds can be very misleading.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
House size and media consumption are going to be big factors here I think. You get four people trying to stream, game, listen to music, whatever it is people these days use phones for, etc; it’s going to really add up. Sure lots of people barely use the internet and are getting sold way more than they need but it’s not uncommon anymore for multiple hd things to be simultaneously happening in one house
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Content becomes a lot bigger in size while we get too used to getting it immediately. I could’ve laughed and how I set a PC to torrent overnight in pre-100MB times, but with games liberally crossing 100GB line I can see myself going back to that.
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.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour 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.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_countries_by_Internet_…
According to this page, seemingly sourced from Ookla, US has way higher average speeds these days.
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?