Meanwhile, in rural England, people desperate for internet access are bundling four DSL lines at 1.4 MBit/s downstream each. BT has re-established its monopoly with being the only provider of FTTC, a major step back from the LLU days of ADSL. But none of this matters, because even if you have fast internet, the government is working hard on expanding the existing censorship to make it useless (just this week folks couldn't download an update to the popular game League of Legends because it contained a file named VarusExpirationTimer.luaobj).
> said speeds of 1.4 terabits per second were achieved during their joint test - enough to send 44 uncompressed HD films a second.<p>Someone did their math wrong.<p>One second of 4:2:2 720p@24fps video is about 353.89Mb<p>A feature film is about 110 minutes, which works out to 2.3 Tbit; this can't even send one HD video per second.
Interesting that they are working on a hardware solution to a software problem.<p>Multicast support would cure the majority of the streaming and torrent issues if the ISP's enabled it.
um this is a core telco network fibre link and has about much relevance to "broadband" as a picture of cute kittens.<p>Subs eh thy hook up their hipster mac book air to a airport hub and suddenly they are a CCIE level guru.
I don't remember the last time I complained about the internet connection being slow actually..<p>It looks like hardware department is not doing its homework instead. Hard drives, and cpus are the limitations most of the time for me.
"The test was conducted on a 410km (255-mile) link"<p>I know I'm from the North, but last I checked Ipswich was practically next door to London. Did they route it via Manchester or something.