{"id":111740,"date":"2020-08-22T06:22:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T13:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/researchers-just-set-a-new-record-for-the-fastest-internet-speed-ever"},"modified":"2020-08-22T06:22:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T13:22:50","slug":"researchers-just-set-a-new-record-for-the-fastest-internet-speed-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/researchers-just-set-a-new-record-for-the-fastest-internet-speed-ever","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Just Set a New Record For The Fastest Internet Speed Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-just-set-a-new-record-for-the-fastest-internet-speed-ever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The internet has transformed most areas of our lives over the last few decades, and the technology keeps improving: researchers just set a new record for data transmission rates, logging an incredible speed of 178 terabits per second (Tbps).<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s around a fifth faster than the <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/8535140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previous record<\/a>, set by a team of researchers in Japan, and roughly twice as fast as the best internet available today.<\/p>\n<p>With 4K movies <a href=\"https:\/\/dls-tech.co.uk\/sky-q-how-big-are-the-4k-uhd-movies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">about 15GB<\/a> in size, you could download about 1,500 of them in a single second at the new speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet has transformed most areas of our lives over the last few decades, and the technology keeps improving: researchers just set a new record for data transmission rates, logging an incredible speed of 178 terabits per second (Tbps). That\u2019s around a fifth faster than the previous record, set by a team of researchers in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}