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Japan downloads all of Netflix in 1 second.
Researchers have developed fiber optics that are ~4 million times faster than the average USA internet speed.

125,000GB downloaded in 1 second.

https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/japan-sets-new-internet-speed-record-its-4-million-times-faster-than-average-us-broadband-speeds
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125k GB doesn’t sound like a lot for Netflix.
Internet speeds in lab conditions don't really mean much. Like, yeah, light travels fast. Big whoop. Until you can get it to my door, it's worthless.
Originally posted by tom red band:
Internet speeds in lab conditions don't really mean much. Like, yeah, light travels fast. Big whoop. Until you can get it to my door, it's worthless.
They did this over a distance of 1,200 miles.
Amanda 15 Jul @ 12:26am 
Who cares? Japan is an evil country.

Buddhism is a joke.
Originally posted by Amanda:
Who cares? Japan is an evil country.

Buddhism is a joke.

Disgusting comment
its the ram to ram static transfer buffer. sony flexing his investments, advertising it as something its not again.

you can use a series of static buffers, ie partial infostates of predetermined data, to transfer large amounts of data over a very short time.

the problem is the buffer itself requires foreknowledge of a kind that renders itself more expensive than traditional data transfer nodes, and slower at responding to novel data.

thus why military analysis hardware tends to transfer massive amounts of data at slow speeds...but if you have all the data already and nothing new is becoming known, then it happens instantaneously. the logic of one sword amongst a horde of them; it only slows down if there is a problem, and the non static nature of time itself is the everpresent problem.

a con in other words.
Last edited by rabapraba p; 15 Jul @ 12:45am
Wake me up if it becomes available for the average person ....
Amanda 15 Jul @ 12:54am 
Originally posted by doomshadow612:

Disgusting comment

Christ is King brother.
cast not the first stone, lest ye find thyself judged by its merits of ricochet and quantum fluctuation.
But how quickly can it download the entire Steam library?
Originally posted by TGC> The Games Collector:
But how quickly can it download the entire Steam library?

It's a one petabyte package traded in individualized hardware components. It could have been transferred arbitrarily close to the speed of light in 1981.

regional steam deployment revolves around trading these unit modules, and occasionally they go missing and find their way to pirate databases. esentially allowing them to piggyback and host their own services off of the steam network; they have all the data themselves.

this is an arbitrary litmus for the default of all copyright.
Last edited by rabapraba p; 15 Jul @ 2:18am
Originally posted by Chaosolous:
Originally posted by tom red band:
Internet speeds in lab conditions don't really mean much. Like, yeah, light travels fast. Big whoop. Until you can get it to my door, it's worthless.
They did this over a distance of 1,200 miles.
The data was run through a transmission system 21 times, travelling the equivalent of 1120 miles.

Regardless, it still doesn't mean much. New fibre optic tech is cool, but it'll be decades out from actual implementation, assuming the cost:benefit ratio isn't completely cooked.
Rio 15 Jul @ 5:19am 
Faster internet speeds just means 1 step closer to nothing being on your pc and everything being "on the cloud"

And one step closer to every game just being "streamed"
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