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

[softestsapphic@lemmy.world]

Yes but have you considered China bad?

[frezik@midwest.social]

You can always hope it's better than it actually is.

[softestsapphic@lemmy.world]

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.

[frezik@midwest.social]

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.

[humanspiral@lemmy.ca]

640kb should be enough for anybody.

[majorasmaskforever@lemmy.world]

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

[xanza@lemm.ee]

It will be in 10 years when a majority of their country has access to it. Industrialization in China is on a different level.

In less than 25 years they will take the top spot for global economy, and likely everything else.

[jj4211@lemmy.world]

I would rather have 50,000,000,000bps

[qevlarr@lemmy.world]

'quietly'

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

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.

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

Quantum computing with AI

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

They’re just building out an infrastructure to modern standards rather than half-ass it and have to come back later. You could argue that this is a long term investment where they are saving money by starting with the latest hardware

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

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

[aimeeloulm@feddit.uk]

I live in London and my speed is 64-69Mb, only two choices of BT/Openreach or Virgin Media where I live sadly. I have thought about switching to VM as they seem more stable where I live now, I do check other fibre options like Community Fibre, Hyperoptics and YouFibre regularly to see 8f in my area, sadly not yet :o(

[jabbathethott@lemmy.world]

Bigger Number = Better

The math is mathing correctly

[fedizen@lemmy.world]

Man, real countries are doing this shit while the US is doing an illegal war on the thought crime of being"woke".

[redditrefugee69@lemmynsfw.com]

China morally bankrupt and developing at a staggering pace which has somewhat stymied as their scoffing at regulations in favor of backroom dealings is kneecapping themselves.

So if you zoom in close enough, like looking at this amazingly fast reported internet speed and only at this speed, China "good."

[nulluser@lemmy.world]

Git outta here with that thar metric mumbo jumbo!

[dead_or_alive@lemmy.world]

China will be lucky if they still exist as a single unified nation. Demographics, employment, debt, over built property market, over dependence on manufacturing exports, energy import dependence, food import dependence.

They have a number of very strong headwinds that could very well cause the failure and break up of the CCP in the next twenty years.

[softestsapphic@lemmy.world]

Notice how many extra hoops you jumped through to get here