This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
4 million times faster to watch porns? Their porn industry is thriving
Still can't use debit cards though.
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.
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.
You know we use the internet to transfer way more than most websites right?
Yes however bloated websites slow traffic for everyone.
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.
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.
There really is Xkcd for everything.
is there an xkcd for there always being an xkcd for everything? i wonder now ...
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
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.
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.
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.
I'm in a rural place and I just have DSL for my house and LTE for my phone. Lived here 20 years and that's the worst thing about it.
My condolences. We have one last office to convert at the coop I work for. We’ll be 100% fiber by the end of the year. Hope your ISP is close as well.
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
Not to mention that Japan tends to use their own local services usually so I'm not sure if speedtest.net is even well known there.
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.
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.
Half-duplex
transmitting over 125,000 gigabytes of data per second over 1,120 miles (1,802 kilometers).
Please include usable metrics in the title
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.
Lol, does this mean there is one apartment building in Japan with a hundred units that uses more bandwidth than the entire United States 😂
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.