China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds
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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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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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I would rather have 50,000,000,000bps
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'quietly'
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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.
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Quantum computing with AI
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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
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Bigger Number = Better
The math is mathing correctly
