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

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We're not using the bandwidth we have. Many US cities have service with 1Gbps download speed available. I have it for my own reasons. Servers are the bottleneck; they rarely even reach half that speed.

If we're not using 1Gbps, why should we believe something would pop up if we had 50Gbps?

Now, direct addressing where everyone can be a server and bandwidth utilization is spread more towards the edges of the network? Then you have something that could saturate 1Gbps. But you can't do that on IPv4.

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They're over here talking about 50Gb XGS-PON for residential like anyone is actually going to use it. I bet their end users will still complain about slow speeds.

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I have a cheap noname chinese switch with 2x10gbit ports and 4x2.5 Gbps ports, so I have the 10 Gbit ports to the internet and my computer, and use a 2.5 gbps port for my NAS, everything else is 1 gbit

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Not just this, I'm not sure if they checked about LGBT rights in China.

From outside the first world Trump and his supporters look scandalist, loud, corrupt and incompetent. Which is sad. But they don't seem fascist most of the time.

Anyway, if we take Putin, he's done many things, one thing he's consistently never done is say antisemitic or easily recognizable fascist things. There is some popularity of Ivan Ilyin around him, who is a Russian emigrant fascist philosopher, though (who apparently wanted to fix problems with Mussolini and the own such "thinkers" of the White movement, except he was on the dumber side, so compared to his writings Mein Kampf seems intellectually elegant).

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Virgin will definitely be faster, they'll do up to a gigabit. Hopefully open reach rolls out fibre to you soon. I only got the fibre to my house last month!

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Ty, yeah I have spoken to some neighbours who have Virgin now and they seem quite happy with it, so it looks a good choice to me, through I would see about modem mode with the VM hub as I prefer my own network equipment and hate using ISP ones, currently looking at pfsense or opnsense soon, so hope works well with VM hub :o/

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Worse than that, from the article:

The 50G-PON ITU-T standard supports theoretical speeds of up to 50 Gbps downstream and up to 25 Gbps upstream, though current real-world deployments in China - led by China Telecom, its regional branch Shanghai Telecom, and ZTE - typically provide 10 Gbps all-optical access.

So the 50G number is just theoretical and actual real world speed is only 10G. Due to regulations in the US, advertisements would need to advertise the real speeds. So this is really just the same as 10Gbps anywhere else.

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Yep, which makes alarmist articles like this ridiculous.

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Horses are fucked in China. They winnie all the time.

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Even the most evil people can have good moments and we can appreciate those without changing outlet overall opinion.

I’m still waiting for Trump’s good moment

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Wait, there are regulations about advertising true speed? Does ComCast know?

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It may be only loosely enforced with fines but there are FTC rules that all online marketing must follow https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/advertising-marketing-internet-rules-road

It does and up helping a little bit. I'm addition to government fines, they also risk class action lawsuits from their customers. I'm willing to bet this is more of a hurdle than China has for state owned companies.

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Yep, and in ten years, we’ll still be arguing absolute it whether dsl counts as “broadband”

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For me, the normal stuff. Mathematically my gig fiber is overkill for my usage. And internet services can rarely keep up with that - you want to download some update or new game? It’s throttled at the source regardless of your internet connection

But in reality when I visit people with “fast enough” internet, I always see glitches and buffering and lag. While it usually serves the need and sometimes gets advertised bandwidth, gig fiber always serves the need. I shouldn’t have to complain about my network or worry about how many streams or how big a download or how many people on their phones. I should never worry about lag during games or interrupted video calls. And I shouldn’t have to worry about sketchy broadband providers (like xFinity/ConCast) way over provisioning their lines or otherwise never delivering marketed bandwidth.

Gig fiber delivers. Always. Like any good infrastructure you don’t even have to think about it: it just always does the job

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Take a look at devContainers as an idea that might be generalized. It’s just docker containers so so big but not huge however the use case ….

devContainers are a complete portable development environment, with support from major IDEs. Let’s say I want to work on a Java service. I open my IDE, it pulls the latest Java devContainer with my environment and all my tools, fetches the latest from git, and I’m ready to go. The problem with this use case is I’m waiting this whole time. I don’t want to sit around for a minute or two every time I want to edit a program. The latest copy needs to be here, now, as I open my IDE

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Maybe don't rely on cloud garbage for basic development?

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Technically I don’t. I’m also the guy running CI/CD building devContainers for my engineers. They no longer have to worry about updating certificates and versions or security patches, and IT doesn’t have to worry about a lot of crap on their laptops that IT doesn’t manage. Engineers can use a standard laptop install and just get the latest of everything they need, scanned, verified, as soon as it’s available. And since it’s all automated, I can support many variations

At work, I’m on the same network, but working from home, I still need the responsiveness to do my job

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My point was - people may have consistency in words and actions, but not between words and actions.

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China is a totalitarian regime with more human right, continuing atrocities, corruption, and illegal trade/business practices.

They are also

bringing a billion people out of poverty and up to modern standards of living in record pace
building out renewable energy faster than the rest of the world combined
have like 95% of the worlds EV buses
are adopting EVs at record pace
built out the worlds largest high speed rail at record pace
publish the most scientific paper of any country
are a hotbed of innovation, manufacturing development
are quickly building an outstanding space program from almost nothing

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