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

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Also doesn't help that SMB is single threaded. Completely mismatched for the era of multicore processors and SSDs.

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We'll solve that with AI. Because you can solve anything by saying "AI".

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That's entirely speculative. There are diminishing returns. Unless you're going to host your own YouTube, the use case for 50Gbps connections to the home is quite small. 4K video streaming at Ultra HD Blu-ray bitrates doesn't even come close to saturating 1Gbps, and all streaming services compress 4K video significantly more than what Ultra HD Blu-ray offers. The server side is the limit, not home connections.

Now, if you want to talk about self-hosting stuff and returning the Internet to a more peer-to-peer architecture, then you need IPv6. Having any kind of NAT in the way is not going to work. Connection speed still isn't that important.#

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How exactly does NAT prevent that? On good hardware it adds insignificant latency.

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There's your culprit

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It's not fast it's more of more bandwidth, means more people can be connected from one line. Speed will remain the same.

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So I'm just going to be a completely different person once I have access to these speeds or you are suggesting new tech that will be made available to consumers?

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What about quantum computing? I don't want anything without quantum computing.

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That goes without saying.

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It has nothing to do with latency, and everything to do with not being able to directly address things behind NAT.

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My mistake, I was thinking 100Gb fiber. Even the knock off switch SFPs are hundreds of dollars each.

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Yes but have you considered China bad?

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You can always hope it's better than it actually is.

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Is China leading the world in green energy research and production an evil plot too?

I get it dictators are shit and we should kill them, but having a society where people's needs are met makes society easier to control. It's literally good for the CCP to make people's lives better so they don't get hung.

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Those cables are hard to terminate properly. There's an outer grounding sheath that needs to be connected up at both ends. Except for short connections, I find it easier/cheaper to use fiber.

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640kb should be enough for anybody.

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It's so incredibly annoying when people use smaller order of magnitude descriptors simply so they can then write more zeros. A good chunk of the time too it feels like it's done to distract from a different point or to exaggerate without technically lying.

Doesn't help that technical jargon is only best used when communicating with someone in that field or understands it. Big number + alphabet soup always seems scary

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It will be in 10 years when a majority of their country has access to it. Industrialization in China is on a different level.

In less than 25 years they will take the top spot for global economy, and likely everything else.

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I would rather have 50,000,000,000bps

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