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.

List of countries by Internet connection speeds - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

07.  United States 	274.16 Mbit/s

19.  Japan 	        212.06 Mbit/s

According to this page, seemingly sourced from Ookla, US has way higher average speeds these days.

Japan had way faster internet on average than the US like twenty years ago, but the US actually did a decent amount of broadband growth even if it still doesn't cover rural areas well.

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

transmitting over 125,000 gigabytes of data per second over 1,120 miles (1,802 kilometers).

Please include usable metrics in the title

Once you become one with the high ping, you gain superpowers.

Is this all of Japan? I wonder what it looks like comparing just Tokyo with LA

more than half the households in my county do not have any high-speed wireline service available to them.

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.

Most DOCSIS (cable tv) systems are pushing gigabit speeds these days, especially in Los Angeles. That said, it is a bit of a misnomer considering CATV's upload speeds are still doodie compared to fiber.

That superpower is mere strength just from slamming many keyboards/mice/controllers at the wall and/or floor.

A crate full of microSD cards shipped as cargo could deliver speeds like this with a ping time measured in hours

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.

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.

Do you think Google Fiber made the average internet speed increase in part?

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.

Wasn't Google Fiber available in like, one town in Kansas? So I suppose yes, it did increase the average speed, but by a very small amount.

It's a record in data transmission. The medium doesn't matter.

The title is 'internet', implying a network of networks. The title wasn't 'new record in data transmission speed'.

I feel they may have been something of a catalyst that got other providers to start upping the speed. At this point, a lot of service providers offer at least 1 gig download speeds, with fiber being synchronous often. Some places offer up to 10 gigs to residential.