Awesome potential. Meanwhile, in the US, people struggle to get broadband speeds at home..
And yet you could beat this by throwing four hard drives across a room :le-pol-face: curious
lol Google Fiber laid down their fiber line in my neighborhood today and accidentally cut the line AT&T dropped for me, meaning I am without internet (mfw I'm forced to use my hotspot to work all day) until Monday morning when their technician comes out. :this-is-fine:
this happens because everyone refuses to hire union techs or permanent techs who could unionize, and they just use contractors instead
contractors don’t know the area, they don’t know the systems, and sometimes they don’t even know the technology. where I work we have techs who have worked on coax for five years thrust into fiber drops where they can’t read the maps and records are just plain incorrect
contractors don’t know the area, they don’t know the systems, and sometimes they don’t even know the technology
absolutely. This is the third time my fiber line has been cut by contractors doing work inside the easement lmao. I knew it was going to happen as soon as I heard them pull up, as they're laying out Google's line through the entire neighborhood/surrounding area and therefore needed six trucks to do so. I should have walked out and made sure they were aware that ATT had laid their line literally a month ago in the same spot that Google had marked, but I figured they would at least see that ATT's fiber hookup terminal/main/whatever the fuck they call it clearly is in use and realize there must be a line extending to some house...
The icing on the cake is that they left the line out & exposed; like they buried part of it, 4pm and a bit of rain came around and thus they have left it in a pile in my drainage ditch. I should just fucking pull that shit under my crawlspace and hook it up to ATT's shit.
RIP my gigabit speeds, somehow ATT is giving me 20mbps via my usb hotspot :corporate-art:
The maps are probably made by novices from another state working under contract using as builts designed by other novices and sending the plans to 16 year olds in trucks getting $12/hr to dig the ditch.
What kinds of research or other advances does this allow? I'm pretty sure that's too quick for most computers to make use of
you're imagining it like a single user streaming Robocop 3, instead of seeing it as a single hop of 3,000 km (Islamabad, Pakistan to Chengdu, China), through which 638,000 users are actively downloading data at 500Mb/s.
if you imagine a future where we do cool things with the internet... like share live, high resolution video of technical processes and cultural events, that one pipe could represent the integration of a lot of people/institutions into a growing, free global library/community.
I can't help but think of the potential this would have for cloud-computing. If networks could share information that fast over that distance we could theoretically turn the whole internet into one giant supercomputer. Not under capitalism though.
sounds like a recipe for a spontaneous superintelligence to emerge if such a thing is possible. hope it's a comrade.
it is fun that this is one of the reasons why japanese fighting games have not embraced rollback netcode, as they get both the benefit of short distances between playerbase due to geography of the country and perfect internet so you have perfect no latency matches in a delay based system while you get western players for example in america that have shitty internet and the distance between two players from diferent states could be like the one between countries, the other reason is because they hate it they want to use a thing they made, any way weird stuff this is why the nick smash game will have netcode better than street fighter or tekken
I mean, this isn't something that's about to be rolled out to people's houses.
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Wut? I honestly don't understand how you can hit those kind of numbers with modern technology, and I'm also surprised by the other numbers they mentioned. I don't think NASA is actually getting 400 Gb/s speed--at least not for most things.
Yeah, but like... what are they connecting from/to? And how?Tying 300000 1Gbs cables together and saying "look, it's 300 Tbs!" isn't really meaningful.
https://interestingengineering.com/japan-shattered-internet-speed-record-319-terabits
Couldn’t access the paper itself, but apparently the used just four cores and multiplexing out of this world.
I can't find it now, but they managed to get 1Gb/s on a barbed wire fence with multiplexing decades ago. Did find this though, which is cooler
these are the big cables you put under oceans and between major cities
