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'Fastest ever' internet speed - 44.2Tbps - recorded in Australia
farsighter
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'Fastest ever' internet speed capable of downloading 1,000 HD movies in under a second is recorded in Australia - and it is four million times faster than the country's average connection
- Researchers installed their equipment in existing and 'real world' infrastructure
- They were able to deliver speeds of 44.2 terabits per second from a single line
- These speeds have only previously been recorded inside a laboratory setting
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44.2Tbs on the island...but still only a T1 to the rest of the world.
@farsighter
Awsomely great! Congrats to the ozzies. About 50% more throughput on a normal 1550 fiber line, that's really a great achievement!
@raindog308
Hey, they have an additional half of a second T1 by now (shared with the kiwis)!
On a more serious note: I'm really impressed by their work. The dailymail article is of course intolerably sh_tty (as is to be expected, plus behind an ad-wall, yuck) but actually reading the research teams paper was very interesting. Thanks to a "chip" they created themselves they managed to cram way more data (channels and channel density) with a very acceptable error rate into a plain standard 1550 fiber.
OK, the 44.2 Tb/s is the "raw" rate and the real payload ("net rate") is "only" 39 Tb/s but that's still really remarkable and great (and significantly ahead of everyone else). Yes, they "tricked" a bit; the ca. 76 kms actually is two lengths of about 38 km (between 2 Melbourne unis), the lines are direct except for an erbium amplifier at the other campus and the whole setup is part of a metro net (as opposed to a long distance line) - but still, what they have achieved is awsome!
For me personally the most attractive part of the whole thing is the fact that, except for their special comb "chip" everything else was plain normal equipment - which translates to their work being actually real world useful. I'm deeply impressed. Very interesting research and very well done, dear ozzies!
Clickbait. "Fastest" doesn't really make sense without also clarifying between which points.
No. (a) they do clearly tell the 2 points, and (b) largely irrelevant as long as they use commonly used material & equipment. Hint: they do.
I'm talking about this thread and the Daily Mail article. There is no sensationalism in the original paper, so why the urge for it here?
Amazing. Instead of webpages downloading whole websites in 1 click might be the future norm, along with giant capacity storage devices. but nowadays hardware can't handle such speeds anyway
Well, because scummy gazettes are scummy gazettes ... and, sorry, because millions of citizens are stupid enough to actually want the sensationalism of scummy gazettes.
Ha, for residential customers only 100mbps is the max tier.
Funny. I do have 100 Mb/s and frankly, I asked for only 50 Mb/s but got the fatter pipe plus some goodies anyway because they needed my signature but didn't listen to me and rather threw at me what they considered an attractive special. Before that I had nominal 25 and actual 24 Mb/s and was happy.
I'm sometimes wondering why people are so crazy about those speed numbers. Similar observation in hobby electronics; rather than using a dirt cheap Padauk or STC MCU everyone and his dog are using STM32 Cortex or even full Arms for blinking some LEDs or other jobs that could be done even on a 4-bit MCU.
Wow that's ridiculous.
And here I am in India, stuck with a 50mbps connection with no possibility of getting a better connection. God bless my third world country~
That’s ##quantumporn
I get 300 mbps for my residential line, yes in India. And there are people in my neighbourhood who are not happy and are waiting for Jio giga fiber. the speeds you get could be a function of location, crappy provider, or the plan that you may have subscribed to.
No need to unnecessarily disparage the nationwide network over 1 data point.
Are torrents allowed?
For you this may be "1 data point" but I live in a central location in Mumbai, which as you would know is our financial capital. It's quite a shame honestly to see that despite living in probably the greatest city in our nation, I still have to deal with problems as trivial as "poor internet connection".
What is this residential line you have? I would love to acquire it for myself.
The speeds I get are a function of reality, and the fact that despite all the big claims our country makes about itself, we are still a fledgling infant in the grand scheme of things.
My opinion isn't an "unnecessary" humiliation, but a factual one.
1 movie? No.
Whole of TPB? Yes.