• @empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 months ago

    50gbps **shared line using passive optical splitters. Bit misleading there Chona, nobody is getting an actual 50gbps connection to their house.

    • @CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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      15 months ago

      Getting real tired of these „China is 30 years ahead of us“ clickbait headlines on an almost daily basis. They‘re always completely overblown and sadly really warp the public perception of the country and their government.

    • @kalleboo@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Most residential fiber globally currently is GPON with a 1-2 Gbps shared line using passive optical splitters, split up to 32 ways. Raising that shared line to 50 Gbps is a great upgrade.

      • @Subdivide6857@midwest.social
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        25 months ago

        It sounds like 50 gig PON is the next logical step. We’ve deployed XGSPON, which is 10x10 Gbps shared between whatever splitter you want to use(anywhere from like 8 way to 128, we generally use 32 way splitters), and we’re testing equipment that will supposedly be supported to 100Gbps PON. Things are moving quickly!

    • yeehaw
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      05 months ago

      I’m sure the hardware for 50Gbps optics wouldn’t be cheap for the consumer 🤣

      • @will_a113@lemmy.ml
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        05 months ago

        The “innovation” in the article is passive tech for fiber to the room (FTTR), specifically made to be low cost and easier to implement. It’s also how your computer might get that 50Gbit - it’ll have to be wired in with a fiber connection. It’s not happening over WiFi (or even Ethernet)

        • @kalleboo@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          (or even Ethernet)

          Technically, those 100+ Gbps fiber LAN/WAN connections used in data centers are also Ethernet, just not twisted pair.

          That said recently I was in a retail store and saw “Cat8” cables for sale that advertised support for 40 Gbps copper ethernet! I wonder if any hardware to support that will ever be released. It is a real standard, approved way back in 2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Gigabit_Ethernet#40GBASE-T

  • @PhAzE@lemmy.ca
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    15 months ago

    There’s a bunch of places in the US that has 10 Gbps speed, so this jump to 50 Gbps is not too shocking. Writing it as 50,000 Mbps to make it seem huge is an interesting take.

  • @diffusive@lemmy.world
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    05 months ago

    Written in Switzerland from my 25GBps symmetric connection (for like 60$/month) that I have for a couple of years 🤷‍♂️

    Also for personal use the difference between 1Gbps and 25 (or, I guess, 100GBps) is essentially zero… your everyday connection is via WiFi (good luck to get more than 1GBps there) or on a home server/NAS/workstation where likely you run batch jobs where the difference between 1 minute or 5 minutes is not a huge deal (and yes I am not saying 1 vs 25 because at that speed generally the bottleneck is the place where you are getting data from)

    • @frezik@midwest.social
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      15 months ago

      Interesting–when I made a similar argument on Reddit some years ago, networking geniuses assured me that they needed more than 1Gbps to play lag-free games. This on /r/programming, no less.

  • @mlg@lemmy.world
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    05 months ago

    AT&T still hasn’t installed fiber in my old neighborhood where one of their lines cuts straight through a row of houses that conveniently do get fiber, while everyone else is stuck on cable.

    Did I mention they received billions in federal funding to upgrade everyone?

  • Dr. Moose
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    05 months ago

    Chinese infrastructure developing is truly impressive. I guess that’s one benefit of being in an imperial dictatorship.

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        -15 months ago

        Not just this one. But I think you are overestimating such improvements over strategic ones that the US is still doing more. Say, Starlink really turning into some sort of planetary cell network.

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      They are ostensibly a one party state, not a dictatorship. While Xi is the paramount leader, he claims he isn’t a dictator and I definitely believe him. Also it seems like he doesn’t have absolute control, but what do I know.

  • @Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    05 months ago

    Man, real countries are doing this shit while the US is doing an illegal war on the thought crime of being"woke".

      • @rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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        -15 months ago

        Not just this, I’m not sure if they checked about LGBT rights in China.

        From outside the first world Trump and his supporters look scandalist, loud, corrupt and incompetent. Which is sad. But they don’t seem fascist most of the time.

        Anyway, if we take Putin, he’s done many things, one thing he’s consistently never done is say antisemitic or easily recognizable fascist things. There is some popularity of Ivan Ilyin around him, who is a Russian emigrant fascist philosopher, though (who apparently wanted to fix problems with Mussolini and the own such “thinkers” of the White movement, except he was on the dumber side, so compared to his writings Mein Kampf seems intellectually elegant).

        • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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          05 months ago

          Even the most evil people can have good moments and we can appreciate those without changing outlet overall opinion.

          I’m still waiting for Trump’s good moment