China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds
China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds
Getting paid by the letter? Why not just say 50Gbps?
I would guess it's to appeal to the greater United States audience of readers, as at least in my experience most people live in an area where speeds are still measured in the hundreds of Mbps. This would allow for a more direct and distinctly dramatic comparison.
Obligatory reminder that the Third-of-a-Pound burger failed because people thought it was smaller than a Quarter Pounder, since it had a three in it instead of a four.
You get hundreds? I don't know anyone with that much. Although starting to see very expensive over 100Mbit options now, I use 4G as it's cheaper and more reliable which is somewhat amusing to be able to say.
Not like I actually need higher speeds anyway.
No, if they cared for that, they'd say 50,000,000,000 Bps
Fair enough. They could even do 100,000,000,000 Nps
I think they just prefer saying things like "A thousand million" in their language.
We're probably lucky that they didn't use milibits as it is.
Because the way they write numbers is generally misunderstood in the west. Wan, the ten thousand character, and Yi, the hundred million character, are typically the crux of translating big numbers like this.
万 (wàn) comes up the most often and is the largest stumbling block for most people learning Mandarin numbers. In English, numbers are usually broken up into chunks of three digits. Because of 万 (wàn), it's easier to break numbers up into groups of four in Mandarin. In English, we split "twelve thousand" numerically into "12,000" (chunks of three digits). Split it the Chinese way, "1,2000," and the Chinese reading "一万两千" (one wan and two "thousand" = yīwàn liǎngqiān) makes more sense.
Not saying the figure isn't exaggerated, but holy shit it's obvious why it's translated this way in articles if you look even slightly beyond the surface.
That's how you know it's was written by GenAI
Ehhh, in my experience, 1Gbps is a very good speed already, what would please me more is lower latency.
That's the main reason I haven't bothered upgrading mine any more.
100mbits with 3ms latency is pretty rocking.
For commercial stuff, 50Gbps is probably useful. Especially if you're not large enough to commission your own fibre cables but for the average person it's probably not too useful - at those speeds you're transferring fast enough to saturate even the fastest of commercial device storage.
who else is utterly sick of reading the word qUiEtLy in headlines
I don't need faster internet. If they had a 2mbps connection for $15, I'd be happy.
Instead, the slowest is 20mbps, for $70. To watch youtube. Wtf do I need all the extra speed for???
0.2 Mbps is sufficient to stream 1080p.
Check your packet loss
That's cool but I don't get the point if it's for residential. For 99% of usecases 1gigabit is more than enough, probably even 100mbit. Maybe it could facilitate new technologies that wouldn't be viable with slower residential connections, but at these speeds the bigger problem starts being the serverside and clientside processing of all that data. No service is ever going to let you get even close to that bandwidth for a single user.
I've enough with my 600Mbs, 50Gbs for an normal user don't make much sense, it's more interesting for big Companies with a huge data traffic or for stock options. For straming movies and downloading some piracy soft, are 200Mbs way enough.
That is a lot of propaganda/sec
the grand firewall protects from that
That is not a subtle deflection. The so-called great firewall is indefensible, as it would also be anywhere else it was implemented.
In other news….
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Bandwidth is fine at 200 kbps
The real question is: what's the packet loss?
? 200kbps, which written that was is kilobits per second, isn't fine for anything? Thats 40KB/s, and will barely run 240p youtube, some videos it'll need 144p.
If you mean 200KB/s, that's 480p youtube. 720p would require a video without a whole lot of movement. If you think that's fine, go tell everyone you know to never use HD video because that wont cause any issues at all, surely.
Meanwhile Comcast keeps rolling out price increases
My Internet bill went up $5/month.
Every damned year