over 1,120 miles (1,802 kilometers).
This is the most American thing ever. Taking an official number (1,808km), converting it to customary units (1,123mi) rounding it (1,120mi) then converting it back again with rounding error.
There really is Xkcd for everything.
No, real Americans would measure it in rocks, or football fields or something.
It’s right there in the article.
over roughly the distance between New York and Florida
Meanwhile in aus we get like 5 MB/s
;-;
Half-duplex
Only until you hit your data cap!
What’s the point though? With more and more trash content on the internet what would the bandwidth be used for? To force-feed people more ads?
640K ought to be enough for anyone.
Right, but have you seen this new trash in 8K? Do you even have a video wall?
Ignoring clickbait title, this is impressive. Networked devices used to be the limit on data transfer.
Are there any devices even capable at reading/writing at 125,000G/sec?
Seems breakthroughs here are more relevant to for backhaul networks.
0.125 P/s
Round 37 of Dead Horse vs. Baseball Bat.
fiber optics
Won’t come out immediately, as that tech would first have to be finalized then introduced to the domestic market.
Avg US speed is kind of silly to compare to isn’t it? I mean, in most of my state satellite is still the most reliable and that’s 100mb/s at most
Once you become one with the high ping, you gain superpowers.
I have 75 mbps and it’s plenty enough except maybe for that one time once in a while where I’m downloading a game on Steam and would like it a little quicker. I see no point of paying three times what I’m paying right now per month to get 300 mbps. Even if it’s available, even if I can afford it. I’d need to download a whole bunch of stuff at the same time to ever make use of that kind of bandwidth.
I can tell some ISPs are blatantly preying on ignorant people, selling them 300 mbps connections at a premium while all they do is google stuff, check their e-mails and browse their social media. They’ll never use more than a tenth of what they’re paying for, the rest is just wasted money. But they don’t know that.
Average internet speeds in a country can be a very misleading stat as a result.
Edit: Looks like two people don’t like that they’ve realized they’re overpaying for their internet.
