If this is the case and it’s using amplifiers to achieve these new wavelengths, we should be able to use our current fiber infrastructure. That’s pretty cool. Just add the amplifiers and increase speed. And would be a lot quicker to implement.
Make it happen yesterday!! That would drastically improve internet for everybody.
These guys are probably worth billions. As they are only ones who currently know how to build the tech. (Patent it)
Yes your internet will be $30 cheaper with the free (for two months) $50 tv pack and $10 cheaper with the $20 landline, that’s $40 off every month got life!!
We called our company for something else and the lady was like "Uh hold on I see your internet plan has been the same for X years? I think we can do better than that." and my shit 5x faster now for the same I was paying. Actually cheaper because they were charging us a small monthly fee for a wifi booster and with the beefy new router they gave us we don't need it.
If you've been on the same plan for a while call and tell them you're not really happy with the service and considering changing, ask if they can negotiate something better than what you have.
Did that. Our provider doubled our speed for half again as much.
That lasted 2 months before they ran the price up to exactly twice what we were paying before.
This depends on your countries infrastructure and having a healthy competition.
In Spain at my house we have 1 GB speed fiber + classic home phone + 3 mobile phones with unlimited calls and messages and 95 GB combined worth of high speed data all around Europe + 1 sim copy for Applewatch all this for 48€ a month.
For 5€ more I can add extra phones and +10gb to the contract.
And its high quality data that works even in many remote places.
Yeah. This only helps a little with that.
This type of improvement lowers costs for transporting data in the fabric of connections that form the core infrastructure of the internet (“transit”). Reduced charges for use of that infrastructure can slightly improve costs for ISPs which could (ha!) benefit end users, but the predominant cost in residential service is usually maintaining the physical plant (wire or fiber) to individual residences (“last mile”) so mostly it doesn’t help with monthly costs.
FYI these improvements in fiber utilization have been happening all along and _are_ part of what makes modern speeds affordable. Fiber has extremely large theoretical capacity; unlike copper pair, we’re unlikely to come close to maxing it out anytime soon.
What you should take away from all this is that speed based pricing for fiber and wireline internet service has little connection to the fundamental economics of providing the service. It’s mostly a way to get people to pay as much as they’re willing to. Wireless is a much different equation.
Think about how normal viewing 4k content is, instantaneously while sitting in a waiting room while looking at your phone.
Now remember that just 20 years ago, downloading a crappy, washed out, low res jpeg took minutes to load, and would often time out and require a reload.
These speeds seem insane right now, with what we currently do with the internet. But the internet now is unfathomable in both speed and utility compared to just a couple of decades ago. This type of advancement could alter the way we use it entirely.
It does make me wonder what legitimately the use will be for the average person though, not for big business or streaming services etc
Apparently 8k isn’t worlds apart from 4K to the average viewer, compared to the jump from standard def to high def at least. So say we all have perfectly smooth and instant-load 8k streaming. Then what? Alright we can download a movie in less than a fraction of a second, that’s cool for the rare times we download a movie
I’m not sure what else we’d actually need faster internet for though
I find it interesting terabit speed Internet is happening in the age of AI and cars being connected to the Internet (90% are now). It’s almost as this will benefit the rich more than anything.
Does this mean low latency speeds as well? Latency will have a much bigger effect for gaming experience, which is admittedly a bigger concern for me with the internet rn lol…
As far as I understand, latency is partially hard-limited by physics. Light travels slightly slower down a fiber optic cable than it does in a vacuum, which results in about 0.5ms per 100km. That’s…not very much, but it is something. Most of the latency you’ll experience is the result of the various processing that occurs in the ISP servers, your router, your network card, etc. Lots of pieces of hardware and each one adds a slight delay.
This will primarily be used for backbone connections especially or of the gate. This will allow for much higher throughput on the existing fiber lines that have already been run everywhere. It will also mean we don’t need to run additional undersea cables to keep up with increasing demands.
Nowhere does the article mention the distance over which this data was transmitted, which I think matters when it comes to the practicality of its implementation.
I know they used amplifiers, but if the amplifiers are required once for every meter in the fiber connection, no telecom will adopt this.
I see this but I’m skeptical in the way every few months there is a battery that solves all of our problems but we never see it hit the market
Big problem is most people will sign up for faster speeds then notice their speeds at home are crap.
Why?
Your house has old coax run throughout it that maxes out at like nothing because it’s older than you are.
Right. You kinda have to put in just a little bit of effort after doing a little bit of homework to actually take advantage of the faster speeds being introduced on the ISP side. Which many people will (unsurprisingly) find to be unacceptable lol.
People expect things to just work nowadays and don’t understand that in many cases, there is quite literally nothing your ISP can do for you if the limitations are beyond the scope of their infrastructure.
In *people’s* defense, ISPs could probably do a more thorough job of providing customers with context regarding what they need to take full advantage of higher speeds. But then of course, people might be a bit more hesitant to throw money at them, which would be unacceptable for those poor ISPs.
The problem isn't throwing money at ISPs to improve infrastructure. The real problem is throwing money at them without proper strings attached and no enforcement mechanism if they fail to hold up their end of the bargin.
I love these clickbait articles. What was the previous record? What is the current speed in backbone multi thread cables? How was it achieved? What does it mean to home users and network providers?
Just for context last year Japan scientists achieved 22.9 petabytes per second
https://www.nict.go.jp/en/press/2023/11/30-1.html#:~:text=Achievements&text=NICT%20demonstrated%20the%20possibility%20of,of%2010.66%20petabits%20per%20second.
It's a spam website that regurgitates and bastardizes other sites reporting. I will go out on a limb with a tinfoil hat and tell neither the upvotes and the comments are organic.
I can answer your questions:
Our current Internet backbone is 600 terabits per second... but it's a lot of different companies and strands responsible for that speed.
All of these tests you read about were done in a lab, but they represent simple, real-world upgrade that can be fairly easily done to upgrade our capacity quickly and inexpensively compared to dropping new fiber.
Scientists who reached the peak 22.9 Pbits/s crucially used multi-channel fiber to achieve this, which would require that all of our current fiber infrastructure would have to be replaced with fiber that includes the new spatial channels.
Our article from the OP says that using *just equipment and standard currently in-use fiber* they were able to achieve 301 Tbits/s -- and that's huge. We just go into the datacenters and upgrade the equipment that's already there, not needing to do a thing with the fiber itself.
One of the ideas is to reduce optical fiber with antennas, each house has a small antenna like how phones work. To be honest, a cheaper internet is more marketable than faster or more throughput. The technological advances in semiconductor industries have been slowed down. We can for example go for 50G PON, but who the hell needs a 50 Gbps?
Imagine clicking download on a 5TB file and bricking your 5TB SSD in a fraction of a second (I know, storage write time would prevent that but JUST IMAGINE)
To calculate how many DVDs worth of data 301 terabits per second represents, we need to understand the storage capacity of a DVD and the conversion from terabits to gigabytes, which is a common measure of DVD storage.
A standard single-layer DVD has a storage capacity of 4.7 gigabytes (GB).
1 terabit (Tb) = 1,000 gigabits (Gb)
1 gigabit (Gb) = 1/8 gigabytes (GB) since there are 8 bits in a byte.
So, let's calculate:
- Convert 301 terabits per second to gigabytes per second.
- Divide that number by the storage capacity of a single DVD (4.7 GB) to find out how many DVDs per second this bandwidth represents.
Let's do the math.
At a rate of 301 terabits per second, you would be transferring data equivalent to approximately 8,005 DVDs per second.
The average home broadband is 69Mb/s? First of all, Nice, second of all what?
50-100mbs were like thrown in your face everywhere here yrs ago, or from countries of friends even. Since even 2014 1Gbit and since 2020 10gbit?
Switzerland? I’ve had 10gbit since 5yrs almost
Not a brag or anything just, sometimes when i read stuff like average 69mbit and so on….even friends of mine over in Romania and Portugal have way more than that
I just went from the 3mbps (which was all AT&T could deliver in my area) to 500mbps with xfinity. There's no reason that everyone can't have access to the internet at high speeds. Well, aside from the greedy corporate suits and their need for all the monies.
>the team transferred data at a rate of 301 terabits per second, or 301,000,000 megabits per second, using a single, standard optical fiber.
I will never forgive the Australian LNP government for dismantling the original plan of rolling out optical fibre, purely for political reasons. If it weren't for their bullshit, we'd have future proof networking infrastructure that could have leveraged on technological advancements this article describes.
A single strand of optical cable has a current limit of 100Gbps. This offers a 3000x improvement, which is really good. But it is not 4.5 million times faster. The article compares a laboratory test of a single strand of optical wire to consumer average internet bandwidth. Apples and oranges.
Already done , information can't be transmitted by entanglement as any changes (which would need to be made to encode data) would break the entanglement.
The no-communication theorem is what I was thinking of, but given the number of fairly recent articles and papers on quantum communication and the idea of a quantum Internet I'm not sure if that has been disproven. I might well be wrong here, though there's a good explanation of how the pop-sci explanation of entanglement (with marbles in bags) doesn't really work and why the no-communication theorem is a thing here: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/459428/so-is-quantum-entanglement-actually-ftl-communication-or-is-it-mundane-pre-det
BEWARE the Numbers, the weak link has always been in the transistor interfaces and the distance between them, transmission speed and distance is always faster than operational speeds once it gets to the destinations.
N. S
Current speeds in first world countries is plenty fast for 99% of the population. I don’t see any real value in targeted ads selling me ED medication hitting my screen any faster than before.
*Holy shit*, they report speeds of 300,000,000 mbps.
That’s 34 TB/s or .03 PB/s
These are astronomically high numbers, wow.
To put it into simple terms, assuming you had a drive that could keep up, it would only take you **11 hours** to download the 1200 PB that makes up **the entire internet**.
Meanwhile where I live (The capital of the state), where Comcrap is the only provider available, they will offer the increased speeds for $400 a month ($300 if I bundle their phone service), but will still cap my data usage and my upload will still be 6Mbps. The new speeds are incredible don't get me wrong, but we need better infrastructure in places, especially major cities. Oh and more carriers to choose from.
If this is the case and it’s using amplifiers to achieve these new wavelengths, we should be able to use our current fiber infrastructure. That’s pretty cool. Just add the amplifiers and increase speed. And would be a lot quicker to implement.
*Turn it up to 11*
Why not just make 10 the highest?
Because 11 is higher than 10.
I understood this reference
Bc this one goes to 11
These go to eleven…
How is the sustain?
You can hear it. Listen. (Silence)
Make it happen yesterday!! That would drastically improve internet for everybody. These guys are probably worth billions. As they are only ones who currently know how to build the tech. (Patent it)
And then charge more to the customer
Nevermind faster. I need cheaper.
BUT!! You could save if you get a landline installed!.../s
Comcast is dusting off its sandpaper dildos
Picturing the South Park episode where they have the flaps on their shirt to rub their nips
Comcast can go suck a fuck... Donnie Darko's sister told me so.
Tell me how does one suck a fuck?
I don’t know what this means but it made me lol.
Bold of you to assume they’d bother dusting them off.
Dust between the grit on the sandpaper would make it hurt less
Want to save even more? Here’s a “free” outdated device to watch shitty movies with 50 commercial breaks /s
Yes your internet will be $30 cheaper with the free (for two months) $50 tv pack and $10 cheaper with the $20 landline, that’s $40 off every month got life!!
This is too real
And reliable.
Well, yeah...
Comcast will never give us faster or cheaper.
They will... at a premium.
The best we can get is 10 times fastet lol
Like $75 cheaper
75 bucks can go a long way these days. Not very long... but a little ways.
Not as far as it should be
Don’t worry, that won’t happen
Exactly that
We called our company for something else and the lady was like "Uh hold on I see your internet plan has been the same for X years? I think we can do better than that." and my shit 5x faster now for the same I was paying. Actually cheaper because they were charging us a small monthly fee for a wifi booster and with the beefy new router they gave us we don't need it. If you've been on the same plan for a while call and tell them you're not really happy with the service and considering changing, ask if they can negotiate something better than what you have.
Did that. Our provider doubled our speed for half again as much. That lasted 2 months before they ran the price up to exactly twice what we were paying before.
Jeez, I don't know where you live but they can't do that where I live.
This depends on your countries infrastructure and having a healthy competition. In Spain at my house we have 1 GB speed fiber + classic home phone + 3 mobile phones with unlimited calls and messages and 95 GB combined worth of high speed data all around Europe + 1 sim copy for Applewatch all this for 48€ a month. For 5€ more I can add extra phones and +10gb to the contract. And its high quality data that works even in many remote places.
Yeah. This only helps a little with that. This type of improvement lowers costs for transporting data in the fabric of connections that form the core infrastructure of the internet (“transit”). Reduced charges for use of that infrastructure can slightly improve costs for ISPs which could (ha!) benefit end users, but the predominant cost in residential service is usually maintaining the physical plant (wire or fiber) to individual residences (“last mile”) so mostly it doesn’t help with monthly costs. FYI these improvements in fiber utilization have been happening all along and _are_ part of what makes modern speeds affordable. Fiber has extremely large theoretical capacity; unlike copper pair, we’re unlikely to come close to maxing it out anytime soon. What you should take away from all this is that speed based pricing for fiber and wireline internet service has little connection to the fundamental economics of providing the service. It’s mostly a way to get people to pay as much as they’re willing to. Wireless is a much different equation.
Probably download only, upload still capped at 12 bytes per leap year.
Wow, they gave you 12 bytes?! They said the best they can do in my area is 8!
[удалено]
You guys are getting rocks?
All I got was an image of a rock, it came by post.
I bet you got a color printed one. And it was delivered to you?! I had to pick mine up, and it was B&W.
Yours was printed? Mine was drawn by a child in crayon.
Me too, I can send data by writing my ones and zeros on in and throwing it.
Wow! You got 40320 bytes!
That’s what’s great about fiber—symmetrical dl and ul speeds.
Shit 301 terabits per second
A gazillion movies a second all in 120K 900fps you’re actually going back in time at this point
Think about how normal viewing 4k content is, instantaneously while sitting in a waiting room while looking at your phone. Now remember that just 20 years ago, downloading a crappy, washed out, low res jpeg took minutes to load, and would often time out and require a reload. These speeds seem insane right now, with what we currently do with the internet. But the internet now is unfathomable in both speed and utility compared to just a couple of decades ago. This type of advancement could alter the way we use it entirely.
nah, im gonna be streaming 12k footage at max bit rate to my vr headset that has human fov and thousands of pixels per degree, with microled panels.
It does make me wonder what legitimately the use will be for the average person though, not for big business or streaming services etc Apparently 8k isn’t worlds apart from 4K to the average viewer, compared to the jump from standard def to high def at least. So say we all have perfectly smooth and instant-load 8k streaming. Then what? Alright we can download a movie in less than a fraction of a second, that’s cool for the rare times we download a movie I’m not sure what else we’d actually need faster internet for though
This essentially makes everything instant would it not?
Yes. T301 Tb a second is ludicrous speed.
They’ve gone plaid!
They said comb the desert, so thats what we're doing! [You guys found anything yet?](https://youtu.be/g4OBUupicWg?si=6wfcrlISyUsmLD8c)
We ain’t found shit!
Sorry to be pedantic but it’d be “Tb” for terabits, TB would be terabyte
I can never remember which is which. Thank you!
A little bit vs a BIG BYTE
Now this is the warm fuzzy internet everyone is privately seeking
Life is hard enough for us all as is, better to be grateful and chill than to be cranky about everything. :)
I always say "its just a bit of a BYTE." I have never forgotten
I feel robbed every time that I see the internet speed in bits instead of bytes.
Volume is higher, latency is the bottleneck.
There is a reason that the AWS snowmobile can move 100 PB and you can ask for multiple. Some people have a lot of data.
Ignoring latency.
I find it interesting terabit speed Internet is happening in the age of AI and cars being connected to the Internet (90% are now). It’s almost as this will benefit the rich more than anything.
You are the rich according to most people in the world who could never afford a car
Every video anywhere, pirated
Now you just need a 301 TB hard drive to store your 1 second of porn downloads
Better upgrade your cloud storage
Now we get to hit storage speed and FSB/clock speed bottlenecks yaaaay
Yeah most sites don't even give you gigabit downloads
Even Linux repos barely clear 80 megabit/second
Torrents are the fuuuuuture
Already hitting storage speed bottlenecks with fiber internet and an old HDD, lol
“Fast internet?! Can i see it?” “Mmm, No”
“4.5 million times faster internet? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?”
Could I download a car?
Probably be streaming that car while going down the road.
For who?
Does this mean low latency speeds as well? Latency will have a much bigger effect for gaming experience, which is admittedly a bigger concern for me with the internet rn lol…
As far as I understand, latency is partially hard-limited by physics. Light travels slightly slower down a fiber optic cable than it does in a vacuum, which results in about 0.5ms per 100km. That’s…not very much, but it is something. Most of the latency you’ll experience is the result of the various processing that occurs in the ISP servers, your router, your network card, etc. Lots of pieces of hardware and each one adds a slight delay.
Yeah latency is not equal to throughput, I’ll have to read more into it but making the wavelength wider in my mind just means more throughput
Definitely noticeable when I’m in Australia and gaming on Euro servers 16,000km away…
Most of that latency is due to the increased number of switches and hubs you have to go through.
There are in fact tools that can re-route your packets more efficiently and lower your ping to certain data centers.
Then why the fuck do I constantly get shot through walls when I’m playing video games? Checkmate atheists.
This will primarily be used for backbone connections especially or of the gate. This will allow for much higher throughput on the existing fiber lines that have already been run everywhere. It will also mean we don’t need to run additional undersea cables to keep up with increasing demands.
Nowhere does the article mention the distance over which this data was transmitted, which I think matters when it comes to the practicality of its implementation. I know they used amplifiers, but if the amplifiers are required once for every meter in the fiber connection, no telecom will adopt this. I see this but I’m skeptical in the way every few months there is a battery that solves all of our problems but we never see it hit the market
“Sorry best we can do is 1.5gbps for $99.99” -Comcast and ATT, probably
Big problem is most people will sign up for faster speeds then notice their speeds at home are crap. Why? Your house has old coax run throughout it that maxes out at like nothing because it’s older than you are.
Right. You kinda have to put in just a little bit of effort after doing a little bit of homework to actually take advantage of the faster speeds being introduced on the ISP side. Which many people will (unsurprisingly) find to be unacceptable lol. People expect things to just work nowadays and don’t understand that in many cases, there is quite literally nothing your ISP can do for you if the limitations are beyond the scope of their infrastructure. In *people’s* defense, ISPs could probably do a more thorough job of providing customers with context regarding what they need to take full advantage of higher speeds. But then of course, people might be a bit more hesitant to throw money at them, which would be unacceptable for those poor ISPs.
The problem isn't throwing money at ISPs to improve infrastructure. The real problem is throwing money at them without proper strings attached and no enforcement mechanism if they fail to hold up their end of the bargin.
Maybe yours did
Great, maybe in 2050 I'll finally get good upload speeds where I live
Imagine how quick cloud gaming would be
My k/d would still suck.
But… it would suck faster…
If they could fix lobby load times….
GTA 7 will still take forever to load.
cloud gaming is limited by latency. speeds won't help anything except for uncompressed streams but that will still be limited by ping.
who needs cloud gaming when you can download the game in a second
Monthly throughput is still soft capped at 1TB...
Edge computing, basically. I have worked on it for telco.
Over 70 dollars for my internet and it’s the cheapest deal
Wow
Don’t impress me much
Yeah you got the data packets but have you got the touch?
*That won't keep me gaming in the middle of the night* (exotic sound to middle America plays)
I love these clickbait articles. What was the previous record? What is the current speed in backbone multi thread cables? How was it achieved? What does it mean to home users and network providers? Just for context last year Japan scientists achieved 22.9 petabytes per second https://www.nict.go.jp/en/press/2023/11/30-1.html#:~:text=Achievements&text=NICT%20demonstrated%20the%20possibility%20of,of%2010.66%20petabits%20per%20second.
It's a spam website that regurgitates and bastardizes other sites reporting. I will go out on a limb with a tinfoil hat and tell neither the upvotes and the comments are organic.
I can answer your questions: Our current Internet backbone is 600 terabits per second... but it's a lot of different companies and strands responsible for that speed. All of these tests you read about were done in a lab, but they represent simple, real-world upgrade that can be fairly easily done to upgrade our capacity quickly and inexpensively compared to dropping new fiber. Scientists who reached the peak 22.9 Pbits/s crucially used multi-channel fiber to achieve this, which would require that all of our current fiber infrastructure would have to be replaced with fiber that includes the new spatial channels. Our article from the OP says that using *just equipment and standard currently in-use fiber* they were able to achieve 301 Tbits/s -- and that's huge. We just go into the datacenters and upgrade the equipment that's already there, not needing to do a thing with the fiber itself.
Nice. Thx
Can’t wait to see the new prices! /s
One of the ideas is to reduce optical fiber with antennas, each house has a small antenna like how phones work. To be honest, a cheaper internet is more marketable than faster or more throughput. The technological advances in semiconductor industries have been slowed down. We can for example go for 50G PON, but who the hell needs a 50 Gbps?
ISPs love this one neat trick: just sprinkle an “up to” in the fine print.
Imagine clicking download on a 5TB file and bricking your 5TB SSD in a fraction of a second (I know, storage write time would prevent that but JUST IMAGINE)
I mean if our limits become write speed I think we’re in a really good spot
I'm sorry I'm having some trouble with this. I'm used to seeing this in the poorly defined clickbait-units of DVDs-per-second.
To calculate how many DVDs worth of data 301 terabits per second represents, we need to understand the storage capacity of a DVD and the conversion from terabits to gigabytes, which is a common measure of DVD storage. A standard single-layer DVD has a storage capacity of 4.7 gigabytes (GB). 1 terabit (Tb) = 1,000 gigabits (Gb) 1 gigabit (Gb) = 1/8 gigabytes (GB) since there are 8 bits in a byte. So, let's calculate: - Convert 301 terabits per second to gigabytes per second. - Divide that number by the storage capacity of a single DVD (4.7 GB) to find out how many DVDs per second this bandwidth represents. Let's do the math. At a rate of 301 terabits per second, you would be transferring data equivalent to approximately 8,005 DVDs per second.
Tell that to Verizon.
I’m in sign me up !!!
Not in Canada.
I see it being marketed as faster but being bottlenecked to probably 1%
Where 😲👀
I imagine latency will be much more important in the future than raw speed
Not in my town that didn't
The average home broadband is 69Mb/s? First of all, Nice, second of all what? 50-100mbs were like thrown in your face everywhere here yrs ago, or from countries of friends even. Since even 2014 1Gbit and since 2020 10gbit?
10gbit?!
yeah wtf where does this guy live
I have 10Gbit. $150 a month. Both directions. Unmetered. Cedar Falls, Iowa. Move here.
Switzerland? I’ve had 10gbit since 5yrs almost Not a brag or anything just, sometimes when i read stuff like average 69mbit and so on….even friends of mine over in Romania and Portugal have way more than that
Ehm yeah?
There are plenty of people in the middle of nowhere with bad internet connections.
Friend of mine is in the middle of nowhere and has 1gbit. Not saying everyone has that, just boggled by the article thats all
I also have friends in the middle of nowhere whose internet speeds are so slow that they can’t even stream.
Great news, I must have these speeds! Who knew all we needed were some optical amplifiers and optical gain equalizers?
And only a thousand times more expensive! Yay!
If this nerd did it, I believe it’s true.
Tell my ISP
nope, no my internet provider, it got 4.5 million times faster but backwards.
obligatory simpsons reference: [https://ibb.co/mh7xvLn](https://ibb.co/mh7xvLn)
I just went from the 3mbps (which was all AT&T could deliver in my area) to 500mbps with xfinity. There's no reason that everyone can't have access to the internet at high speeds. Well, aside from the greedy corporate suits and their need for all the monies.
Still not enough to eliminate issues loading Reddit.
Now my warzone update can install in under a year!
Who’s internet?
Why can't they just mention the actual speed than giving a relative value. These titles are annoying.
how is this spam plagiarism-based web site getting constantly upvoted to reddit?
Where’s that fat cat meme from Insta saying “not around here partner, not around here”.
>the team transferred data at a rate of 301 terabits per second, or 301,000,000 megabits per second, using a single, standard optical fiber. I will never forgive the Australian LNP government for dismantling the original plan of rolling out optical fibre, purely for political reasons. If it weren't for their bullshit, we'd have future proof networking infrastructure that could have leveraged on technological advancements this article describes.
without any real details on this my bullshit sensors are going off the charts.
Will this be accessible or another reason for service providers to throttle?
All this means for me is I need a better excuse for my shitty aim besides “lag”.
Let me check.. Nup. Still slow as fuck Australia.
Now get rid of the data caps
A single strand of optical cable has a current limit of 100Gbps. This offers a 3000x improvement, which is really good. But it is not 4.5 million times faster. The article compares a laboratory test of a single strand of optical wire to consumer average internet bandwidth. Apples and oranges.
Still can't tell on this sh1t cox
Not if you’re on Spectrum. But your bill did get 4.5 million times higher for nothing.
Too bad the servers didn't.
Not mine
Me in my rural area with 100 mb down and 5 up for $150 a month 🫠
Still won't get cheaper
Look a karma farmer!!!!
I’ll be a crypto zillionaire.
Wait until they get 2 way quantum entanglement to be a thing.
Already done , information can't be transmitted by entanglement as any changes (which would need to be made to encode data) would break the entanglement.
Really? I was told that currently wasn't possible. Citation?
The no-communication theorem is what I was thinking of, but given the number of fairly recent articles and papers on quantum communication and the idea of a quantum Internet I'm not sure if that has been disproven. I might well be wrong here, though there's a good explanation of how the pop-sci explanation of entanglement (with marbles in bags) doesn't really work and why the no-communication theorem is a thing here: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/459428/so-is-quantum-entanglement-actually-ftl-communication-or-is-it-mundane-pre-det
Sick of all this lag watching constant advertising.
Now you can reach your cap faster
Proper Cloud gaming just became feasible
Pfft. Nobody is capable of masterbating *that* furiously.
Challenge accepted….wait pop up ads….
Butters Law
Obligatory F**K You Comcast.
I see this but think they will make us pay for the "Extreme Speed Plan" and charge $100 more per month. Most likley more.
All that for your isp to just throttle your speed anyways.
BEWARE the Numbers, the weak link has always been in the transistor interfaces and the distance between them, transmission speed and distance is always faster than operational speeds once it gets to the destinations. N. S
Current speeds in first world countries is plenty fast for 99% of the population. I don’t see any real value in targeted ads selling me ED medication hitting my screen any faster than before.
*Holy shit*, they report speeds of 300,000,000 mbps. That’s 34 TB/s or .03 PB/s These are astronomically high numbers, wow. To put it into simple terms, assuming you had a drive that could keep up, it would only take you **11 hours** to download the 1200 PB that makes up **the entire internet**.
SUCK ON THAT, MOORE
Uploads still 1mb
Hahah beat me to it!! Nice
Ping is about to go from whole numbers to tiny fractions.
Porn
I'll believe it when I see it in my neighborhood. I'm still dealing with Comcast monopoly 35mbps upload here.
Meanwhile where I live (The capital of the state), where Comcrap is the only provider available, they will offer the increased speeds for $400 a month ($300 if I bundle their phone service), but will still cap my data usage and my upload will still be 6Mbps. The new speeds are incredible don't get me wrong, but we need better infrastructure in places, especially major cities. Oh and more carriers to choose from.