Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds
Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds
Still can't use debit cards though.
Pretty clickbait title to compare a lab speed to average internet. I'm sure it's several million times faster than average Japanese internet too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_connection_speeds
07. United States 274.16 Mbit/s
19. Japan 212.06 Mbit/s
According to this page, seemingly sourced from Ookla, US has way higher average speeds these days.
Japan had way faster internet on average than the US like twenty years ago, but the US actually did a decent amount of broadband growth even if it still doesn't cover rural areas well.
This is yet another thing the Republicans have been attacking (funding for rural broadband providers). Our rural areas are actually extremely well covered. Most of the midwest is fibered up. My local co-op’s minimum offered speed is 350x350.
ranked by Speedtest.net data for January 2025
And the average speed of a passenger car is 170km/h, as ranked by speed data from the Nürburgring.
People on shitty slow connections don't have a need to go test that speed much, they know it's shit, people who just got their fancy new 1Gbit fiber and want to know exactly how fast it is, do.
ranked by Speedtest.net data
I have no other ideas to collect that data better but i'm sure that does not give a good generic view of the reality. Every tech I know in Sweden uses bredbandskollen. Even if an end-users is asked if they did test speed and delay, the site was bredbandskollen in nearly 100% of the cases if they had done so. Therefore I dare say speedtest is missing data and that list has no statistical relevance outside the scope of the speedtest user population.
Also, measuring speedtest result tells us about the subscription users took out. It does not tell anything about availability. I can get Gbit here, but subscribed to 100/100 because my average is low
Is this all of Japan? I wonder what it looks like comparing just Tokyo with LA
Do you think Google Fiber made the average internet speed increase in part?
Japan seeming to be ahead of the curve 20 years ago but now being at the same level or behind, seems to be a common theme.
Its just got nothing to do with "internet". That is the issue with the headline. Its just some random piece of fiber that isnt even connected to any wider network. Im assuming they just used big ass rolled up rolls of fiber connected to one another to get to the 1800km. There are no end user "internet" applications for it either. The only thing it could be used for is isolated connections between internet hubs or inside datacenters for local network.
Still impressive ofcourse but just doesnt have anything to do with "internet" in the end user sense.
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.
I also have to laugh when someone takes a very rough estimate (around a hundred miles) and converts it to metric with 4 significant figures (160.9 km). Even 160 is too precise when talking about a distance of 80-120 miles. If the original number has 1 sigfig, the conversion should too, even if that feels way off.
I swear I've bought stuff at Costco before that was 1.3608kg.
No, real Americans would measure it in rocks, or football fields or something.
"Stone" is British, we don't use that bullshit here.
It's right there in the article.
over roughly the distance between New York and Florida
And yet, developers still build sites that load 500kb of JS just to display 5kb of text.
We don’t need faster speeds, we need more reasonable and thoughtful site design. Most sites are ridiculously overengineered, and don’t need a lot of what has been stuffed into them.
You know we use the internet to transfer way more than most websites right?
Yes however bloated websites slow traffic for everyone.
They are more under engineered because of cost cutting and over designed by management because of ignorance and hubris. Developer: “oh yeah this feature will take me a week to implement another week to make it performant and another week to pass QA” Manager: “Oh hell no just slap on this library into the project that I saw getting recommended on LonkedOn”
Here is a lightning fast website that gets the proper amount of engineering time because the goals of management and that of the development team align perfectly.
Holy crap that website is quick
But then how will you be able to mine every single possible data point on every single visitor so that you can maximize profits with advertisors?! Huh?! /s
Nah its not even always about profit, sometimes its just pure sloppy showoff like a page where I am supposed to sign up should not be promoting the company, if Ive already got onto that page why do I need to scroll all the way down to the join/sign up button!
IME it is more devs and managers going wild on the “golly gee wiz” features that are meant to dazzle site visitors, rather than on actual content (or to obscure a lack of actual material content).
Sure, what you mentioned is a problem, and a serious one at that. But your issue arises more from marketers and bean counters and C-Suite execs than devs and managers.
transmitting over 125,000 gigabytes of data per second over 1,120 miles (1,802 kilometers).
Please include usable metrics in the title
Meanwhile in aus we get like 5 MB/s
;-;
A slow Internet is good for you.. You dontt have to worry about losing hair, eyes going blind and going crazy (too fast)
I was complaining to my wife yesterday that it's not easy to find torrents for the Aus version of Taskmaster.
She told me to be patient, their internet is shit so it'll take a while to get it off their servers.
Is it? I feel like I've accidentally downloaded it by accident on more than one occasion when trying to get the UK version... I usually just go to tpb.
Only until you hit your data cap!
And they won't tell you what it is, they'll just throttle you when you reach it.
Yeah Australia still hasn't quite caught up to the internet speeds some other countries had 15 years ago. It's kinda sad. I'm still sad the original (good) NBN got replaced by the janky NBN that's taken years to fix.
The other weird thing in Australia is that even the expensive fibre plans are asymmetric. Most countries that have fibre have a 1Gbps symmetric plan (meaning upload and download are both 1Gbps) whereas the 1Gbps NBN plan has a ridiculously low ~50Mbps upload speed.
I moved from Australia to the USA in 2013. Back then, I had ~9Mbps ADSL2+ in Australia, compared to 600Mbps in the USA. Huge difference. Now I've got 10Gbps symmetric in the USA for $50/month through a local ISP.
I'm still sad the original (good) NBN got replaced by the janky NBN that's taken years to fix.
Malcolm Turnbull is the one I blame most for that. It was his party's policy, but it was his charisma and perceived technology knowledge that sold it.
And he did it for the chance of being PM, not because it was the correct course of action for the betterment of the people he was supposed to be representing.
Imagine selling out an entire country's future for a promotion. What a cockhead.
Where the hell are you getting 10Gbps for $50/mo? I'm paying $95/mo for 1Gbps
That sounds like a coax network instead of fiber.
Wow, it's that bad?
I live in rural Pacific NW and just upgraded to 5gbit symmetric fiber.
Most Australians live in or near a major city, it's pretty common to be able to get gigabit. if you're unlucky you might be limited to 100 megabit, but in some remote or rural areas I wouldn't be surprised if it's 5Mb.
That's quite a speed. How much does it cost and is this a company or personal subscription?
Half-duplex
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.
Most likely sending pseudorandom data so that the data can be validated at the other end.
Given they say it's really 19 fibers in one, that's really just 6,600Gb/s per fiber which is really just 4 colors per fiber with one of those and some amplifiers: https://www.fs.com/c/1.6t-osfp-infiniband-1392
Apparently those go into a watercooled switch. Those 1.6T NICs sound absolutely insane. Makes your home 10G network look strings and cans.
It's not that insane in perspective. Probably still needs a whole rack of equipment to run just that test, but the technology is not too far off that it's quite plausible.
they say it’s really 19 fibers in one ... It’s not that insane in perspective
The impressive bit being that the bundle of 19 fibres is around the same overall diameter as a single regular one - "diameter of five-thousandths of an inch (0.127 millimeters), which is the same thickness as most existing single-fiber cables already in use" - meaning those individual strands are unbelievably thin.
It's going to be interesting to see how a cable like that is getting fixed in the field when a backhoe inevitably goes om nom nom on one.
0.125 P/s
The actual source: www.nict.go.jp
Not really an 'internet' world speed record, but really a wired data transmission record if I'm reading correctly.
Lol, does this mean there is one apartment building in Japan with a hundred units that uses more bandwidth than the entire United States 😂
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
more than half the households in my county do not have any high-speed wireline service available to them.
Round 37 of Dead Horse vs. Baseball Bat.
Once you become one with the high ping, you gain superpowers.
A crate full of microSD cards shipped as cargo could deliver speeds like this with a ping time measured in hours
Now i wonder what would be the average transmission speed of a rocket full of SD cards to another planet, compared to wirelessly transmitting that data?
That ping would be weeks or months btw.
That superpower is mere strength just from slamming many keyboards/mice/controllers at the wall and/or floor.
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?
For better piracy 🥰
640K ought to be enough for anyone.
Right, but have you seen this new trash in 8K? Do you even have a video wall?
fiber optics
Won't come out immediately, as that tech would first have to be finalized then introduced to the domestic market.
Japan is already pretty damn close to achieving 100% fiber network coverage for every household.
Not surprising it's already ahead, as about 20 years ago they offered 100mbps to anyone who could pay for it (a certain Danny Choo comes to mind).
Living there right now and that is hard to believe. It's very common to find housing that still runs on VDSL. Living in Tokyo too
damn that list is so clean. if it was any other place on earth, i guess it would be an incomprehensible or hard to read form
I'm sorry, fiber optics needs to be finalized before being introduced to the domestic market?
I've had fiver since a long, LONG time
Yeah, I've had a fiber cable running all the way into my apartment for over a decade, and directly into my router for years.
i mean a tincan with a wire on it is faster than average us internet speeds
I got some news for you about Australia then.
Let me guess, Kangaroos? Their pouches could hold alot of packets
Wouldn't it be bottlenecked by the upload speed?
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.
House size and media consumption are going to be big factors here I think. You get four people trying to stream, game, listen to music, whatever it is people these days use phones for, etc; it's going to really add up. Sure lots of people barely use the internet and are getting sold way more than they need but it's not uncommon anymore for multiple hd things to be simultaneously happening in one house
Content becomes a lot bigger in size while we get too used to getting it immediately. I could've laughed and how I set a PC to torrent overnight in pre-100MB times, but with games liberally crossing 100GB line I can see myself going back to that.
Which supports my point that average bandwidth is not an indicator of overall quality of internet accessible to the public because it can very easily be skewed by household size.
But people read half of the first paragraph and downvote. I guess it's on me for not being concise enough.
4 million times faster to watch porns? Their porn industry is thriving
Fuck the japanese porn industry, why the fuck would you blur the only relevant parts...