New Internet Speed Record Attained: 178 Tbits/s

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We have a new, blazing-fast internet speed record, courtesy of London’s UCL engineers. How fast? 178 terabits a second! According to the university’s coverage, this is fast enough to download Netflix’s entire library in the blink of an eye.



The record was accomplished by transmitting data through wider ranges of light (wavelengths) than what’s typically used in optical connections. “Current infrastructure uses a limited spectrum bandwidth of 4.5THz, with 9THz commercial bandwidth systems entering the market, whereas the researchers used a bandwidth of 16.8THz,” UCL explained.



“At this speed, it would take less than an hour to download the data that made up the world’s first image of a black hole (which, because of its size, had to be stored on half a...
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Paul_Johnson said:
Meanwhile at Comcast.................

Comcast Exec 1: How do we screw this up?
Comcast Exec 2: Make it Comcastic!
Comcast Exec 1: Brilliant!
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Where I live it would be CenturyLink doing that. For the most part Comcast is the best thing going here but that's still hilarious!
 
Armenius said:
Great! Now where is the storage technology to keep up with that. The fastest drives out there right now are over 2,000 times slower.
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I upgraded to around 600-800 Mbps last year and it's been interesting watching the gap between the two shrink ever more closely on my hard wired rig with SATA III drives. At this point I doubt the non-RAID platters in it could even keep up for big downloads.
 
I can't even get Frontier to up my speed to 100mb without coughing up ANOTHER $50 a month. And I have been a FIOS customer for a decade+. Meanwhile, if you're a new customer, you get 500mb for $39.

Do they have condos available onsite on that campus?
 
Burticus said:
I can't even get Frontier to up my speed to 100mb without coughing up ANOTHER $50 a month. And I have been a FIOS customer for a decade+. Meanwhile, if you're a new customer, you get 500mb for $39.

Do they have condos available onsite on that campus?
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It's even worse out here with CenturyLink. For what I get from Comcast it would cost roughly 4 or 5 times with CL and there's no guarantee they could even do it. If I had deep pockets I could go all in for Gigabit speeds with Comcast but not really worth the costs, but it's nice to know its available. All the other providers out here just piggy back off of CL so it really goes downhill from there. CL is always bragging about 20-50 mbps as if that's something impressive in a city.
 
Literally the street next to my complex and the street across from my complex as well as everything around my complex has North State 1Gbps fiber ability. Where I live though, it's not offered. So I have to pay $80 a month for ****ty Spectrum 100/10 speeds. While North State's gigabit service is $70.
 
LeRoy_Blanchard said:
Literally the street next to my complex and the street across from my complex as well as everything around my complex has North State 1Gbps fiber ability. Where I live though, it's not offered. So I have to pay $80 a month for ****ty Spectrum 100/10 speeds. While North State's gigabit service is $70.
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My wife works at Spectrum in Retention .. she tells me how shady a lot of employees are and they are rewarded for their shadyness by Spectrum.. and according to her supervisor .. Johnny home user doesn't need more than 10 upload unless Johnny is doing nefarious illegal things...

ignorance at it's finest I suppose.
 
{NG}Fidel said:
I’ve got Comcast and I’m just sick of the terrible upload speed and data caps. 200mbps DL 5 mbps UP....
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Yeah, the data cap is pretty rough. The amount of 4K streaming we do chomps most of it each month. I'd be a bit happier if it was 2TB. Our upload is 20 mbps, but that's mostly the default for the majority of tiers out here.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
I upgraded to around 600-800 Mbps last year and it's been interesting watching the gap between the two shrink ever more closely on my hard wired rig with SATA III drives. At this point I doubt the non-RAID platters in it could even keep up for big downloads.
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Peter you might want to double check the statistics you are reading. A Gigabit connection is good for 150 or so Megabytes a second maybe higher if you have over the line compression. You would need close to a 10 gigabit connection being nearly fully utilized to saturate a 600 Megabyte pipe to a single SSD drive.

Just a thought as I think you might have missed that difference in bus speed measurements.
 
Grimlakin said:
Peter you might want to double check the statistics you are reading. A Gigabit connection is good for 150 or so Megabytes a second maybe higher if you have over the line compression. You would need close to a 10 gigabit connection being nearly fully utilized to saturate a 600 Megabyte pipe to a single SSD drive.

Just a thought as I think you might have missed that difference in bus speed measurements.
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If I copy from SSD to SSD, SATA III, and this is on my 4930K rig, I can sometimes see sustained speeds of 400-600 Mb/s for large files. From the internet, with Steam, EGS, Origin, I've seen upwards of 60-80 MB/s download but then as files are decompressing I see those same SSDs hitting 100% usage in task manager during those downloads. I know what you mean though with the pipe but when things are decompressing during game installs that 600-800 mbps is enough to tie 'em up. Poor platters are barely able to make it past 120-160 MB/s for large file transfers. Man I look forward to the day when I'll have a PCIe 4.0/4 TB drive.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
If I copy from SSD to SSD, SATA III, and this is on my 4930K rig, I can sometimes see sustained speeds of 400-600 Mb/s for large files. From the internet, with Steam, EGS, Origin, I've seen upwards of 60-80 MB/s download but then as files are decompressing I see those same SSDs hitting 100% usage in task manager during those downloads. I know what you mean though with the pipe but when things are decompressing during game installs that 600-800 mbps is enough to tie 'em up. Poor platters are barely able to make it past 120-160 MB/s for large file transfers. Man I look forward to the day when I'll have a PCIe 4.0/4 TB drive.
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I think your use of the little "b" when talking about your SSD is causing confusion. You should be seeing 4-6 Gb/s in sustained file transfers, or 500 MB/s. My SATA III SSD drives are typically in the 300-500 MB/s in mixed file size moves. My NVME drive is typically in the 600-1000 MB/s range with bursts of 1.3 GB/s.
 
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