Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds
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Meanwhile in aus we get like 5 MB/s
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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.
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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.
Until I switched ths other day from iinet to superloop I was paying 80 a month for 100mbs and lucky to get 20 on off peak times. Switched to superloop for an extra 10 dollars a month and meant to get 1gb instead. At the modem I get 950mbs and 350mbs over wifi to my phone. It's amazing
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i mean a tincan with a wire on it is faster than average us internet speeds
I got some news for you about Australia then.
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Yeah Australia still hasn't quite caught up to the internet speeds some 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.
Where the hell are you getting 10Gbps for $50/mo? I'm paying $95/mo for 1Gbps
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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.
No, real Americans would measure it in rocks, or football fields or something.
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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
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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.
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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?
Right, but have you seen this new trash in 8K? Do you even have a video wall?
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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.
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is there an xkcd for there always being an xkcd for everything? i wonder now ...
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Japan is already pretty damn close to achieving 100% fiber network coverage for every household.
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
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It's a record in data transmission. The medium doesn't matter.
Theoretically, you could always increase the speed of data transmission by using more cables in parallel.
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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.
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No, real Americans would measure it in rocks, or football fields or something.
"Stone" is British, we don't use that bullshit here.
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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.
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.
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Only until you hit your data cap!
And they won't tell you what it is, they'll just throttle you when you reach it.
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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.
Could be related to their stagnating economy and population. Conservatives love to point to Japan as a successful ethnostate, but their xenophobia has directly led to the stagnation.
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Where the hell are you getting 10Gbps for $50/mo? I'm paying $95/mo for 1Gbps
Im paying 125/month for 50 Mbps. Lol
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No, real Americans would measure it in rocks, or football fields or something.
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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
