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

[cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca]

I'm sure the hardware for 50Gbps optics wouldn't be cheap for the consumer

[professorozone@lemmy.world]

Because everyone there uses the Internet?

[alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml]

What do you think would happen if he started doing things the people able to recall him didn't like?

[mlg@lemmy.world]

AT&T still hasn't installed fiber in my old neighborhood where one of their lines cuts straight through a row of houses that conveniently do get fiber, while everyone else is stuck on cable.

Did I mention they received billions in federal funding to upgrade everyone?

[shinkantrain@lemmy.ml]

Yeah no one uses the internet over there, but they're doing it anyway just to shit on Verizon

[professorozone@lemmy.world]

I probably shouldn't have posted it that way. I've been to Bejing, but I picture a lot of rural rice farmers just NOT part of the Internet and of course with censorship rampant, I just figure, why so fast? Sounds like flexing. But maybe I'm wrong.

[essteeyou@lemmy.world]

Well, at least they're doing it quietly.

[deceptichum@quokk.au]

We already have private 100gbps in Australia and our public network just trialled it last year so rollout is expected this year.

Why is anyone celebrating 50gbps? I can’t imagine Australia is anywhere near leading here.

[ilovethebomb@lemm.ee]

This would be for a business, surely? I can't imagine any individual having a use case for those speeds.

I can get 8 gigabit symmetrical if I want to, but I don't.

[osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org]

I'm not, I want to subscribe to this newsletter

[ilovethebomb@lemm.ee]

Even rice farmers watch Netflix.

[deceptichum@quokk.au]

It’s up to the ISPs what plans they sell. But cost wise it would be so prohibitive that only a business would buy it for the first few years for sure.

[ilovethebomb@lemm.ee]

Not only that, but what's the use case? Who on earth is slinging that much data around?

[phoenixz@lemmy.ca]

What would anyone need 50Gb for?

Like seriously, what would that get you what you can't do now?

My local Network adapter isn't half that fast

[ngcbassman@sh.itjust.works]

Come on mate, internet in Australia is pretty shit after the NBN fiasco. Let me know when any of those those 100gbps lines reach 1gbps xD.

[cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

BRB moving to China

[deceptichum@quokk.au]

Small time server admins?

[deceptichum@quokk.au]

?

https://www.techradar.com/best/best-nbn-1000-plans

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

That's cool, but all the important stuff doesn't take much.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

So they received money for something they didn't do. They should pay those back.