China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds

[qevlarr@lemmy.world]

'quietly'

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

I’m just pretty sure my fiber vendor offers 10Gbps service but I’ve never had reason to check whether they offer it here. There app is not responding so I can’t verify …. They are better at fiber service than maintaining an app.

Personally I think gig fiber is the current sweet spot:

• price has come down a lot
• very low latency
• high reliability
• more than enough for most people

It’s technically overkill for most people but a huge benefit is it works. For everything. Cable tends to be way over-provisioned for plus asymmetrical and higher latency, so you won’t get the bandwidth you pay for, uploads will be slow, and latency may hit you while gaming or streaming. Most of the time it will be good enough but you will hit glitches, buffering.

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

Quantum computing with AI

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

They’re just building out an infrastructure to modern standards rather than half-ass it and have to come back later. You could argue that this is a long term investment where they are saving money by starting with the latest hardware

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

Plus what consumer can even support higher bandwidth? Computers are starting to come with 2.5G Ethernet, switches are coming down in price but still pretty expensive for home use (and complex), and any existing wiring is likely close to topped out.

For anything faster, you’re all too likely to need enterprise equipment for a lot more money and a lot more complexity.

I’ve briefly considered updating to faster internet but

• I don’t have a rational need
• I’d have to replace switches and wiring
• I don’t have the time to commit
• even building a file server that can sustain that bandwidth is a challenge

[aimeeloulm@feddit.uk]

I live in London and my speed is 64-69Mb, only two choices of BT/Openreach or Virgin Media where I live sadly. I have thought about switching to VM as they seem more stable where I live now, I do check other fibre options like Community Fibre, Hyperoptics and YouFibre regularly to see 8f in my area, sadly not yet :o(

[jabbathethott@lemmy.world]

Bigger Number = Better

The math is mathing correctly

[fedizen@lemmy.world]

Man, real countries are doing this shit while the US is doing an illegal war on the thought crime of being"woke".

[redditrefugee69@lemmynsfw.com]

China morally bankrupt and developing at a staggering pace which has somewhat stymied as their scoffing at regulations in favor of backroom dealings is kneecapping themselves.

So if you zoom in close enough, like looking at this amazingly fast reported internet speed and only at this speed, China "good."

[nulluser@lemmy.world]

Git outta here with that thar metric mumbo jumbo!

[dead_or_alive@lemmy.world]

China will be lucky if they still exist as a single unified nation. Demographics, employment, debt, over built property market, over dependence on manufacturing exports, energy import dependence, food import dependence.

They have a number of very strong headwinds that could very well cause the failure and break up of the CCP in the next twenty years.

[softestsapphic@lemmy.world]

Notice how many extra hoops you jumped through to get here

[xanza@lemm.ee]

Have you ever stepped food into China? I have. And I can tell you from personal experience they're living in the future.

They have their own fair share of problems. But the investments they're making into infrastructure are very easily going to catapult them to the head of the class here very shortly...

I'm really tired of being told how distopian China is from people who've never even been there.

[surewhynotlem@lemmy.world]

The second one.

Think back to when you were on dial-up. The concept of a streaming movie service would have been a fantasyland. No one was creating one. The infrastructure wasn't there. It was impossible.

As soon as people started getting broadband, and enough people got it, streaming services could exist.

Are you different? No, you just want to watch a movie. But now you don't have to go to Blockbuster.

[surewhynotlem@lemmy.world]

Unless you're going to host your own YouTube....

This is exactly what peer tube is struggling with. This bandwidth would solve the video federation problem.

See, you get it!

[frezik@midwest.social]

Except we need IPv6 before that's at all viable.

We are not even filling out the bandwidth of pipes we have to the home right now. "If you build it, they will come" does not apply when there's already something there that isn't being fully utilized.

[redditrefugee69@lemmynsfw.com]

To arrive at "China Good," yes you do need to jump through many hoops. Glad we're on the same page, even if you started out strangely.

[zip2@feddit.uk]

640kb? Luxury.

[nfamwap@lemmy.world]

I work on PON and XGPON. Officially we work on a -25dB maximum, but I've seen circuits stable at around 30dB.

It's surprising how many bad splices you can ignore before it gets problematic.

-18.5dB is going to limit you to either a really good fibre path, or a really short one. Unless you have options with long-range SFPs? The constant progress keeps my job interesting at least.

[softestsapphic@lemmy.world]

And then he blocked me XD

All these egotistical children with nothing to be proud of