Kühe sind toll@feddit.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoResearchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadbandwww.popsci.comexternal-linkmessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up1444arrow-down111
arrow-up1433arrow-down1external-linkResearchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadbandwww.popsci.comKühe sind toll@feddit.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square71fedilink
minus-squarebillwashere@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up75arrow-down2·7 months agoBroadband is not a speed.
minus-squareEntropywins@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·7 months agoDo you know how fast you were going? Faster than broadband…
minus-squarepirat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-27 months agoFaster than “[…] the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway”? (Quoted: Tanenbaum, 1981)
minus-squareSquizzy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·7 months agoThere are limitations to the technology, similar to saying 3 times faster than sound. Also broadband as a regulated term would have speeds tied to that definition.
Broadband is not a speed.
Do you know how fast you were going?
Faster than broadband…
Faster than “[…] the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway”?
(Quoted: Tanenbaum, 1981)
There are limitations to the technology, similar to saying 3 times faster than sound.
Also broadband as a regulated term would have speeds tied to that definition.