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.
It’s right there in the article.
over roughly the distance between New York and Florida
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.
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.
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 router for over a decade. And my country is quite a bit behind Japan in their fiber coverage.
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.
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
That sounds like a coax network instead of fiber.
Only until you hit your data cap!
Wow, it’s that bad?
I live in rural Pacific NW and just upgraded to 5gbit symmetric fiber.
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
That’s quite a speed. How much does it cost and is this a company or personal subscription?
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?
640K ought to be enough for anyone.
For better piracy 🥰
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_connection_speeds
07. United States 274.16 Mbit/s 19. Japan 212.06 Mbit/sAccording 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.
ranked by Speedtest.net data
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.
Also, measuring speedtest result tells us about the subscription users took out. It does not tell anything about availability. I can get Gbit here, but subscribed to 100/100 because my average is low
ranked by Speedtest.net data for January 2025
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.
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.
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.
Is this all of Japan? I wonder what it looks like comparing just Tokyo with LA
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.
Do you think Google Fiber made the average internet speed increase in part?
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.
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.
Lol, does this mean there is one apartment building in Japan with a hundred units that uses more bandwidth than the entire United States 😂
Round 37 of Dead Horse vs. Baseball Bat.
transmitting over 125,000 gigabytes of data per second over 1,120 miles (1,802 kilometers).
Please include usable metrics in the title
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 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: https://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.
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), which is the same thickness as most existing single-fiber cables already in use” - meaning those individual strands are unbelievably thin.
It’s going to be interesting to see how a cable like that is getting fixed in the field when a backhoe inevitably goes om nom nom on one.
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.
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’.
Article explains. You don’t read it.
Of course I read it, and investigated the source. The issue is with the title the article chose.
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
more than half the households in my county do not have any high-speed wireline service available to them.
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
That superpower is mere strength just from slamming many keyboards/mice/controllers at the wall and/or floor.
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.
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
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.
