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

[dywmtco@lemmynsfw.com]

the us will be lucky if it exists at all in the future

[ilikeboobies@lemmy.ca]

Yeah, one thing at a time

/s

[dead_or_alive@lemmy.world]

We’ll be around. We may not be a democracy but we’ll be around.

China though, it’s cooked .

[reksas@sopuli.xyz]

there could be some new thing that no one has not even bothered to think about because of the limitations. Imagine streaming back when downloading few kilobytes for an hours was considered reasonable, people would have laughed at the very thought of it.

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

. Only a $40 Meta subscriptio

I tried to upload some 8k 360 footage to FB before I left it
"We're sorry, but an error has occurred"

Tried over several days, no good. tried again a month later, still no good.

Camera is more or less useless if you can't host the footage anyway

[frezik@midwest.social]

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.

[nopermissions@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[kalleboo@lemmy.world]

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

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

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).

[kushan@lemmy.world]

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!

[aimeeloulm@feddit.uk]

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/

[shasta@lemm.ee]

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.

[phaze@lemmy.ca]

Yep, which makes alarmist articles like this ridiculous.

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

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

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

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

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

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

[shasta@lemm.ee]

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.

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

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