China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds
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Seems surprising, especially because Estonia is known for its digitized government. I logically thought that it'd be complemented with decent Internet coverage.
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I just checked on eBay, and there are multiple listings for single port 100 GbE Mellanox (now nVidia) Connect-X 4 cards in the $60-100 range.
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We have roughly the same problem that the US has, where they've paid the big ISPs to put fiber everywhere and all that money got pocketed. Well, Estonia's first few big fiber projects were all through Telia. Telia put down way less fiber than promised and constantly kept saying the lines were already all committed so they couldn't rent it out to competitors.
This I believe started before we even had Telia here - We had Eesti Telekom, later known as Elion, and then finally it was acquired by Telia. The same company has had a semi-monopolistic status pretty much all the time. Tele2 and Elisa exist, but they've never had the sweet ass contracts Telia's always had.
This is slowly starting to change with the currently ongoing broadband project where you can get an ISP-neutral fiber connection installed for like 99€ or 199€, regardless of how much work it is to get the lines to you, but I'm not sure this is even available if you've already got Telia's monopoly fiber installed. It's very slow to roll out and every year or 2 they choose a bunch of municipalities with problematic Internet access and then if you live in one of those, you can apply. This has been a godsend, because it got me fiber at home, after years of only being able to get 12/1 mbps through Telia copper.
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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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How exactly does NAT prevent that? On good hardware it adds insignificant latency.
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/r/programming
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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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.
