Japan sets new internet speed record; it's 4 million times faster than average US broadband speeds

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A team of scientists in Japan shattered the record for the fastest internet speed by developing new fiber optics.

Researchers in Japan say they have set a new world record for the fastest internet speed, transmitting over 125,000 gigabytes of data per second over 1,120 miles (1,802 kilometers).

That's about 4 million times the average internet speed in the U.S. and would allow you to download the entire Internet Archive in less than four minutes, according to some rough estimates. This is also more than twice the previous world record of 50,250 GB/s, previously set by a different team of scientists in 2024.

To achieve this new speed — which has not been independently verified — the team developed a new form of optical fiber to send information at groundbreaking speeds over roughly the distance between New York and Florida.

https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/japan-sets-new-internet-speed-record-its-4-million-times-faster-than-average-us-broadband-speeds

[xrobwx71]

125,000 GigaBYTES per second not bits. Wow. 

[neufuse Veteran]

that's one clickbait title

 

you can't compare a demo circuit to an average user......  and that's over one circuit... add up all the high speed circuits in Japan and the US and guess who has more total throughput aggregated

[satukoro]

On 16/07/2025 at 07:40, xrobwx71 said:

125,000 GigaBYTES per second not bits. Wow. 

I wanted to see if it was a typo or not but i checked the source article and they are indeed talking about 1 petabit per second transmission rates. It's kind of insane to think about 1 quadrillion-ish bits being sent every second.