Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds
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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
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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
Which supports my point that average bandwidth is not an indicator of overall quality of internet accessible to the public because it can very easily be skewed by household size.
But people read half of the first paragraph and downvote. I guess it's on me for not being concise enough.
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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.
In my area geetting that higher bandwidth is at least an extra $50/month and I'm being conservative. That's $600/year just to download games quicker.
That means that if you're buying a new massive game once every month and a half you're paying just as much for bandwidth to download the game as you're paying for the game itself.
This is not good value unless you have so much disposable income that you don't even know what to do with it.
