Your superfast fiber broadband now looks embarrassingly slow with a new speed record set

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Researchers in Japan have shot past the previous internet speed record (Image: GETTY • EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS)

If you’re completely happy with your current broadband speeds… you may want to stop reading. That’s because even if you now have the fastest commercial connection available in the UK – just over 1,000Mbps from Virgin Media, BT, Hyperoptic, GigaFast and a number of other brands – it pales in comparison to the new speed record in Japan. the past few days.

The country has set a new benchmark worldwide when it comes to internet speeds. Japan had worked with British engineers to set the previous record, a respectable 178 terabits per second. And now it’s blasted past that record — at a dazzling 319 terabits per second.

To achieve this unprecedented speed, Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) used next-generation fiber optic technology in a laboratory environment. To achieve these speeds, NICT used an experimental new fiber optic cable that packs four cores into a single cable that is about the same thickness as a regular household fiber optic cable.

Speed ​​Record Download Broadband Japan Researchers

The researchers were able to create 1,864 miles of distance to test long-range performance prestaties (Image: NICT.GO.JP)

That means – in theory at least – this new cable technology can be replaced by the same cables that run on your drive to your house and power your home Wi-Fi network. That is of course a long way.

Still, it is an exciting development.

The team at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology has routed the next-generation fiber optic cable through coiled reams of fiber that simulate a transmission distance of some 1,864 miles. No speed loss was reported at all.

In comparison, the length of the UK is 874 miles. So this next-generation cable could be used to connect a home in John o’ Groats to an exchange in Land’s End – and the resident could still expect 41,811,649 Mbps speeds.

To put that speed in perspective. Under optimal laboratory conditions, download a file of 220 GB – the size of the PlayStation 5 version of blockbuster hit Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, for example – would take 0.005552 seconds.

For now, Japan sees the technology being used for data transfer, instead of downloading video games at home and streaming Netflix.

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