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

[subignition@fedia.io]

The article you linked describes plans reaching up to 1000Mbps (1Gbps).

That's only 2% of the speed of the theoretical 50Gbps maximum OP's article discusses (and 10% of the 10Gbps real-world speeds currently available in China according to the same article). I think you have your units mixed up.

[ilovethebomb@lemm.ee]

Who would have a server like that actually in their house?

Linus Tech Tips, a company that films multiple hours of 4k or higher content every day, which is uploaded to an offsite backup, as well as uploading edited videos to multiple platforms, made a big deal about having a 10 gigabit Internet connection.

[diffusive@lemmy.world]

Written in Switzerland from my 25GBps symmetric connection (for like 60$/month) that I have for a couple of years ‍️

Also for personal use the difference between 1Gbps and 25 (or, I guess, 100GBps) is essentially zero… your everyday connection is via WiFi (good luck to get more than 1GBps there) or on a home server/NAS/workstation where likely you run batch jobs where the difference between 1 minute or 5 minutes is not a huge deal (and yes I am not saying 1 vs 25 because at that speed generally the bottleneck is the place where you are getting data from)

[rizzrustbolt@lemmy.world]

KC starts the beta for 50gig next month.

[alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml]

Do you really believe everything in the USSR was dim and depressing? Do you also think everything is Mexico is tinted yellow?

[deceptichum@quokk.au]

Let me know when any of those those 100gbps lines reach 1gbps xD.

It was in direct relation to 1gbps.

[darkdarkhouse@lemmy.sdf.org]

I think you may be confused?

[darkdarkhouse@lemmy.sdf.org]

That's the thing, it's hard to imagine what we'll use it for until it's available.

[darkdarkhouse@lemmy.sdf.org]

Hot NICs in your .local

[cosmonova@lemmy.world]

Getting real tired of these „China is 30 years ahead of us“ clickbait headlines on an almost daily basis. They‘re always completely overblown and sadly really warp the public perception of the country and their government.

[subignition@fedia.io]

Then I guess it's my bad thinking you were trying to show 100 gigabit plans

None of those plans actually do reach 1gbps though, you kinda proved their point with your link

[deceptichum@quokk.au]

You are the confused one mate.

The user I gave that link showing our 1gbps plan commented as if we did not already have 1gbps, hence me showing them that we already have it.

The link was not in relation to 100gbps and was purely a response to the 1gbps comment.

[deceptichum@quokk.au]

Those plans do not reach 1gbps at 7pm when every family in the neighbourhood is online, that is to be expected.

Under ideal situations proximity and network congestion they are capable of hitting the full 1gbps.

[roguebanana@lemmy.zip]

I think few people missed the sarcasm

[kushan@lemmy.world]

We're testing this same tech in the UK as well:
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/02/openreach-and-nokia-claim-uks-first-live-test-of-50gbps-broadband.html

China might be a little ahead but it's hardly a leapfrog.

[glitchvid@lemmy.world]

Seconding this, while I have the option for multi-gig at my address, I don't have the need, once you get around gigabit upload speeds life is fine.

I can upload hours of uncompressed gameplay to YouTube in under an hour, and that's limited mostly by their ingest speeds (≈300Mbps) and not my end, so that's plenty.

With all that said, the option for consumers is great, I'm thankful I have that choice, wish more people had it too.

[will_a113@lemmy.ml]

The “innovation” in the article is passive tech for fiber to the room (FTTR), specifically made to be low cost and easier to implement. It’s also how your computer might get that 50Gbit - it’ll have to be wired in with a fiber connection. It’s not happening over WiFi (or even Ethernet)

[thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org]

data drive arrays are so fucking slow

I swear to god! half of my job at work is waiting for the platter drives to give the data to the solid state arrays on the other side of a fiber connection

[kata1yst@sh.itjust.works]

LTT are also a bunch of loonie toon characters cosplaying as techies who lost all their data multiple times to malpractice. I'd hardly uplift them as a banner case.