over 1,120 miles (1,802 kilometers).
This is the most American thing ever. Taking a rounded number (1800km), converting it to customary units then converting it back again with rounding error.
Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds
Submitted 5 weeks ago by Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
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pHr34kY@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Klear@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
is there an xkcd for there always being an xkcd for everything? i wonder now …
ksigley@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There really is Xkcd for everything.
Codpiece@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
No, real Americans would measure it in rocks, or football fields or something.
prex@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
“Stone” is British, we don’t use that bullshit here.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s right there in the article.
over roughly the distance between New York and Florida
Hoimo@ani.social 5 weeks ago
I also have to laugh when someone takes a very rough estimate (around a hundred miles) and converts it to metric with 4 significant figures (160.9 km). Even 160 is too precise when talking about a distance of 80-120 miles. If the original number has 1 sigfig, the conversion should too, even if that feels way off.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I swear I’ve bought stuff at Costco before that was 1.3608kg.
rekabis@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
And yet, developers still build sites that load 500kb of JS just to display 5kb of text.
We don’t need faster speeds, we need more reasonable and thoughtful site design. Most sites are ridiculously overengineered, and don’t need a lot of what has been stuffed into them.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
But then how will you be able to mine every single possible data point on every single visitor so that you can maximize profits with advertisors?! Huh?! /s
Mhad1@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Nah its not even always about profit, sometimes its just pure sloppy showoff like a page where I am supposed to sign up should not be promoting the company, if Ive already got onto that page why do I need to scroll all the way down to the join/sign up button!
rekabis@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
IME it is more devs and managers going wild on the “golly gee wiz” features that are meant to dazzle site visitors, rather than on actual content (or to obscure a lack of actual material content).
Sure, what you mentioned is a problem, and a serious one at that. But your issue arises more from marketers and bean counters and C-Suite execs than devs and managers.
3abas@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You know we use the internet to transfer way more than most websites right?
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Yes however bloated websites slow traffic for everyone.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They are more under engineered because of cost cutting and over designed by management to make profit
Here is a lightning fast website that gets the proper amount of engineering time because the goals of management and that of the development team align perfectly.
Devmapall@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Holy crap that website is quick
deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 5 weeks ago
transmitting over 125,000 gigabytes of data per second over 1,120 miles (1,802 kilometers).
Please include usable metrics in the title
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Meanwhile in aus we get like 5 mb/s
;-;
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
I was complaining to my wife yesterday that it’s not easy to find torrents for the Aus version of Taskmaster.
She told me to be patient, their internet is shit so it’ll take a while to get it off their servers.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Is it? I feel like I’ve accidentally downloaded it by accident on more than one occasion when trying to get the UK version… I usually just go to tpb.
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Only until you hit your data cap!
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
And they won’t tell you what it is, they’ll just throttle you when you reach it.
dan@upvote.au 5 weeks 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.
octobob@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Where the hell are you getting 10Gbps for $50/mo? I’m paying $95/mo for 1Gbps
trk@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I’m still sad the original (good) NBN got replaced by the janky NBN that’s taken years to fix.
Malcolm Turnbull is the one I blame most for that. It was his party’s policy, but it was his charisma and perceived technology knowledge that sold it.
And he did it for the chance of being PM, not because it was the correct course of action for the betterment of the people he was supposed to be representing.
Imagine selling out an entire country’s future for a promotion. What a cockhead.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
That sounds like a coax network instead of fiber.
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Wow, it’s that bad?
I live in rural Pacific NW and just upgraded to 5gbit symmetric fiber.
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Most Australians live in or near a major city, it’s pretty common to be able to get gigabit. if you’re unlucky you might be limited to 100 megabit, but in some remote or rural areas I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s 5Mb.
Mihies@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
That’s quite a speed. How much does it cost and is this a company or personal subscription?
redlemace@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Half-duplex
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
A slow Internet is good for you… You dontt have to worry about losing hair, eyes going blind and going crazy (too fast)
malloc@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
they say it’s really 19 fibers in one … It’s not that insane in perspective
The impressive bit being that the bundle of 19 fibres is around the same overall diameter as a single regular one - “diameter of five-thousandths of an inch (0.127 millimeters)” - meaning those individual strands are unbelievably thin.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
0.125 P/s
youngalfred@lemmy.zip 5 weeks 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 weeks ago
It’s a record in data transmission. The medium doesn’t matter.
youngalfred@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
The title is ‘internet’, implying a network of networks. The title wasn’t ‘new record in data transmission speed’.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Theoretically, you could always increase the speed of data transmission by using more cables in parallel.
DancingBear@midwest.social 5 weeks 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 😂
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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?
sdfric88@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
For better piracy 🥰
Konstant@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
640K ought to be enough for anyone.
ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Right, but have you seen this new trash in 8K? Do you even have a video wall?
Almonds@mander.xyz 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
more than half the households in my county do not have any high-speed wireline service available to them.
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
4 million times faster to watch porns? Their porn industry is thriving
FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Fuck the japanese porn industry, why the fuck would you blur the only relevant parts…
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Round 37 of Dead Horse vs. Baseball Bat.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
fiber optics
Won’t come out immediately, as that tech would first have to be finalized then introduced to the domestic market.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Japan is already pretty damn close to achieving 100% fiber network coverage for every household.
Burghler@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Living there right now and that is hard to believe. It’s very common to find housing that still runs on VDSL. Living in Tokyo too
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
damn that list is so clean. if it was any other place on earth, i guess it would be an incomprehensible or hard to read form
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not surprising it’s already ahead, as about 20 years ago they offered 100mbps to anyone who could pay for it (a certain Danny Choo comes to mind).
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I’m sorry, fiber optics needs to be finalized before being introduced to the domestic market?
I’ve had fiver since a long, LONG time
mriswith@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah, I’ve had a fiber cable running all the way into my router for over a decade.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
i mean a tincan with a wire on it is faster than average us internet speeds
octobob@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
I got some news for you about Australia then.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Let me guess, Kangaroos? Their pouches could hold alot of packets
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Once you become one with the high ping, you gain superpowers.
Godort@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
A crate full of microSD cards could deliver speeds like this with a ping time measured in hours
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Now i wonder what would be the average transmission speed of a rocket full of SD cards to another planet, compared to wirelessly transmitting that data?
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
That superpower is mere strength just from slamming many keyboards/mice/controllers at the wall and/or floor.
chefdano3@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Still can’t use debit cards though.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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
axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks ago
Wouldn’t it be bottlenecked by the upload speed?
Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
And the average speed of a passenger car is 170km/h, as ranked by speed data from the Nürburgring.
People on shitty slow connections don’t have a need to go test that speed much, they know it’s shit, people who just got their fancy new 1Gbit fiber and want to know exactly how fast it is do.
redlemace@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I have no other ideas to collect that data better but i’m sure that does not give a good generic view of the reality. Every tech I know in Sweden uses bredbandskollen. Even if an end-users is asked if they did test speed and delay, the site was bredbandskollen in nearly 100% of the cases if they had done so. Therefore I dare say speedtest is missing data and that list has no statistical relevance outside the scope of the speedtest user population.
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Do you think Google Fiber made the average internet speed increase in part?
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Japan seeming to be ahead of the curve 20 years ago but now being at the same level or behind, seems to be a common theme.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks 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.