{"id":130269,"date":"2021-11-08T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T06:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/japan-breaks-world-record-for-fastest-internet-speed"},"modified":"2021-11-08T22:23:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T06:23:10","slug":"japan-breaks-world-record-for-fastest-internet-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/japan-breaks-world-record-for-fastest-internet-speed","title":{"rendered":"Japan breaks world record for fastest internet speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-breaks-world-record-for-fastest-internet-speed3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers in Japan have set a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2021-07\/nioi-dow071221.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new world record<\/a> for fastest internet speed \u2014 and it\u2019s so fast, you\u2019d be able to download nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/features\/cloud-storage\/how-much-is-1tb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">80,000 movies<\/a> in just <em>one second<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Need for speed:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/technology\/decentralize-the-internet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Internet<\/a> speed is typically measured by how much data can be transmitted between two devices in one second.<\/p>\n<p>The new record is 319 terabits per second (Tb\/s). That\u2019s double the <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/telecommunications\/internet-speed-record178-terabits-per-second\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">previous world record<\/a> for fastest internet speed and about <em>7.6 million times faster<\/em> than the average home internet speed in the U.S. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.highspeedinternet.com\/resources\/state-of-the-internet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">42 megabits per second<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers in Japan have set a new world record for fastest internet speed \u2014 and it\u2019s so fast, you\u2019d be able to download nearly 80,000 movies in just one second. Need for speed: Internet speed is typically measured by how much data can be transmitted between two devices in one second. The new record is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130269","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=130269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}