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

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

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.

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.

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.

And they won't tell you what it is, they'll just throttle you when you reach it.

Where the hell are you getting 10Gbps for $50/mo? I'm paying $95/mo for 1Gbps

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.

That sounds like a coax network instead of 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?

is there an xkcd for there always being an xkcd for everything? i wonder now ...

There really is Xkcd for everything.

"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

I swear I've bought stuff at Costco before that was 1.3608kg.

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.

The title is 'internet', implying a network of networks. The title wasn't 'new record in data transmission speed'.

Theoretically, you could always increase the speed of data transmission by using more cables in parallel.

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.

Yes however bloated websites slow traffic for everyone.

Holy crap that website is quick

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?

Let me guess, Kangaroos? Their pouches could hold alot of packets

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

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).

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

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.