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.
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.
over 1,120 miles (1,802 kilometers).
This is the most American thing ever. Taking an official number (1,808km), converting it to customary units (1,123mi) rounding it (1,120mi) then converting it back again with rounding error.
is there an xkcd for there always being an xkcd for everything? i wonder now …
#2087
There really is Xkcd for everything.
No, real Americans would measure it in rocks, or football fields or something.
It’s right there in the article.
over roughly the distance between New York and Florida
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.
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
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.
You know we use the internet to transfer way more than most websites right?
Yes however bloated websites slow traffic for everyone.
They are more under engineered because of cost cutting and over designed by management because of ignorance and hubris. Developer: “oh yeah this feature will take me a week to implement another week to make it performant and another week to pass QA” Manager: “Oh hell no just slap on this library into the project that I saw getting recommended on LonkedOn”
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.
Meanwhile in aus we get like 5 MB/s
;-;
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.
Only until you hit your data cap!
Half-duplex
A slow Internet is good for you… You dontt have to worry about losing hair, eyes going blind and going crazy (too fast)
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.
0.125 P/s
Round 37 of Dead Horse vs. Baseball Bat.
4 million times faster to watch porns? Their porn industry is thriving
Fuck the japanese porn industry, why the fuck would you blur the only relevant parts…
Once you become one with the high ping, you gain superpowers.
A crate full of microSD cards shipped as cargo could deliver speeds like this with a ping time measured in hours
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?
That ping would be weeks or months btw.
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?
640K ought to be enough for anyone.
Right, but have you seen this new trash in 8K? Do you even have a video wall?
fiber optics
Won’t come out immediately, as that tech would first have to be finalized then introduced to the domestic market.
Japan is already pretty damn close to achieving 100% fiber network coverage for every household.
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
If it’s like here in Finland, coverage means there’s a fibre running under the street in front (or close enough nearby) but because it costs quite a lot to connect a building to it, especially if you want higher speeds and have to start retrofitting every apartment, many haven’t done it.
For example our house officially has fibre coverage, but the street-to-house connection costs ~1800€ which is why we still run a VDSL while the apartment building down the street has 10Gbit to every apartment.
That’s exactly what’s going on here. My landlord refuses to install the upgrade even if I pay for it too 😔
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
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).
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
Yeah, I’ve had a fiber cable running all the way into my apartment for over a decade, and directly into my router for years.
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 and would like it a little quicker. 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 I can afford it. I’d need to download a whole bunch of stuff at the same time to ever make use of that kind of bandwidth.
I can tell some ISPs are blatantly preying on ignorant people, selling them 300 mbps connections at a premium while all they do is google stuff, check their e-mails and browse their social media. They’ll never use more than a tenth of what they’re paying for, the rest is just wasted money. But they don’t know that.
Average internet speeds in a country can be a very misleading stat as a result.
Edit: Looks like two people don’t like that they’ve realized they’re overpaying for their internet.
