▲ 507 ▼ Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds (www.livescience.com) submitted 1 year ago by Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 103 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (3 children) That sounds like a coax network instead of fiber. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] dan@upvote.au 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children) It sure does, but AFAIK it was only available to houses that use fiber (FTTP - fiber to the premises) until recently. My mum could only get 250Mbps max over the coax network before (Aussies refer to it as "HFC" - hybrid fiber and coax). They do have a 1000/250 plan but it's ridiculously expensive compared to the "standard" 1000/50 (called "NBN 1000" - NBN is the National Broadband Network) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child) My ISP used to advertise about fiber because their backend is fiber but residential connections are coax with DOCSIS whatever. One of the downsides is assymetric up/download speeds. Upload gets reduced to favour download and you get these whack ratios. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] dan@upvote.au 1 point 1 year ago This is amusing because practically every backend is fiber. You need it for speeds above 10Gbps, and all ISPs will have at least 40Gbps or 100Gbps connections in their data centers, sometimes even faster (QSFP can do up to 400Gbps). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dan@upvote.au 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children) It sure does, but AFAIK it was only available to houses that use fiber (FTTP - fiber to the premises) until recently. My mum could only get 250Mbps max over the coax network before (Aussies refer to it as "HFC" - hybrid fiber and coax). They do have a 1000/250 plan but it's ridiculously expensive compared to the "standard" 1000/50 (called "NBN 1000" - NBN is the National Broadband Network) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child) My ISP used to advertise about fiber because their backend is fiber but residential connections are coax with DOCSIS whatever. One of the downsides is assymetric up/download speeds. Upload gets reduced to favour download and you get these whack ratios. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] dan@upvote.au 1 point 1 year ago This is amusing because practically every backend is fiber. You need it for speeds above 10Gbps, and all ISPs will have at least 40Gbps or 100Gbps connections in their data centers, sometimes even faster (QSFP can do up to 400Gbps). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child) My ISP used to advertise about fiber because their backend is fiber but residential connections are coax with DOCSIS whatever. One of the downsides is assymetric up/download speeds. Upload gets reduced to favour download and you get these whack ratios. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] dan@upvote.au 1 point 1 year ago This is amusing because practically every backend is fiber. You need it for speeds above 10Gbps, and all ISPs will have at least 40Gbps or 100Gbps connections in their data centers, sometimes even faster (QSFP can do up to 400Gbps). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dan@upvote.au 1 point 1 year ago This is amusing because practically every backend is fiber. You need it for speeds above 10Gbps, and all ISPs will have at least 40Gbps or 100Gbps connections in their data centers, sometimes even faster (QSFP can do up to 400Gbps). permalink fedilink source parent