Japan sets Internet speed Record (319 Terabits per second)

[FrohnB]

Holy shit! That’s fast! Japan Shattered Internet Speed Record at 319 Terabits per Second

[PrintWhisperer]

My first 'dial-up' modem (terminal to mainframe) ran at 300 baud (bps) forty years ago.

That speed is one trillion times as fast.

That IS fast

[slimslob]

That is nice for point to point but now for every day usage worldwide for now. Any data transmission is limited by the slowest connection in the link.

[rthonpm]

Yet most consumer devices are still no better than fast Ethernet (100Mbps). This will be a great advance for core connections between tier one network providers, but we're a long way between seeing something like this on the average home connection.

At least in the US, most home connections can't get a symmetrical connection (same upload and download speed), or even get quality internet at all.

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[Gift]

I have a gigabit connection at home - real speed is around 80-90mb/s.

It's nice if you install a 80GB+ game like GTA V within 15 minutes but beside that it's kind of an overkill

[hiuhd]

Thats like extreme fast.

But Japan is only 18th place on speedtest global index.

https://www.speedtest.net/global-index