China has launched the world’s first commercial 10-Gigabit (10G) broadband network in Sunan County, Hebei Province, with a significant deployment in Xiong’an New Area, a high-tech city being developed as a smart metropolis. The initiative, a collaboration between Huawei and state-owned China Unicom, went live on 20 April 2025.
Awesome, that cuts the Steam update time till I can game down to under half an hour!
I’ve been able to get 8GBps fibre home internet for the last 5 years in rural Canada. I doubt this is the first 10GBps commercial broadband network.
This is cellular though
I’m paying 160$cad for 300mbps, regular GPON service in rural :(
Fibre access is not evenly distributed, some places only have satellite access as an option. Meanwhile Rogers just ran fibre down our road so now we have the option to use Bell or Rogers.
The lack of down/up symmetry (at at 10:1 ratio, no less) is rather gobsmacking in 2025. Even here in SV, where internet service has historically lagged behind the rest of the world, I now have 5 gigabits of symmetric fiber service for a reasonable price.
South Vietnam?
Heh, no, Silicon Valley. Rather surprisingly, internet service was awful here for many years.
This (asymetric bandwidth) and breaking inbound ports and breaking multicast is how they can sell you solution to fill the gap.
In other words, offering tiers of service which are symmetric or close the gap? For what it’s worth, I seem to be a poor technologist, since 5 gigabits/sec is vastly more than I need, but my ISP keeps encouraging me to upgrade to 7 gigabits. It’s nice to know that I could run a skyscraper or a medium sized subdivision if I wanted to, however!
And I’m still on DSL, no more than 10 Mbps… Fuck us rural people, right?
You need to look into LTE and 5G modems
Nobody gives us service out here, I’ve checked with Verizon, TMobile, and AT&T. Best I have is my cellphone, which I can use as a hotspot, and it’s typically only on 4G/LTE. I’ve gotten 5G connections a few times, but rarely.
It took me 2 days to download a 90 GB game, and I can’t play anything online because the connection will just drop.
If you get 4G on your phone, then build a LTE modem and use it, you can use 2x2 or 4x4 antennas as well and increase the signal significantly.
Go here, get a 4G modem for cheap. 5G if you want to try your hand on it. But a 4G modem should get you much much better signal than your phone. Then go get a plan, use this site.
https://cellularinternet.info/
Lot of people use this plan if you have ATT
https://cellularinternet.info/tabletplan
Which ever provider you’re phone is getting the best signal on, go with them.
Seriously, at my old farm I had 4g and was doing 30mbs down and 5 up and none of our phones had service. Once I put in the mimo antenna I had Internet. I still use a mobley plan at my new place, thankfully fiber is finally gonna be here soon.
But don’t deal with not having access. Seriously 4g is prevalent enough in the usa that you shouldn’t be without it now.
Also ignore all the idiots who say this can’t be done on a phone plan. It %100 can, and if you’re rural enough, more than likely very few people will be connecting to your tower and you will not see deprioritizing.
If you need help, let me know and I’ll get you setup. I dealt with this crap for years until I figured it all out.
Fun fact: If I use my 4G with a device that isn’t a phone, that’s against the terms of service and they can cut my access.
Yea sure. They also took nearly a trillion dollars from us tax payers for a nationwide build out of Internet…took the money then said dialup is good enough.
They can fuck right off.
As much as I hate to say it, because Fuck Musk, Starlink really is as good as they say in rural areas like yours. FiL has had it since the early beta and it was transformative for him. Streaming is now as good as wired broadband and “no lag” video calls are as well. It drops out very 20 min or so for a minute since the constellation isn’t complete yet but that has been getting better year over year.
Again, Musk is a massive choad, but this is the only decent option for people without anything good.
At the moment I’m happy with my old school 600Mb conection
Cry’s in 100/20Mb
The best I can do for the price and consistency is Verizon 5G home internet and it’ll fluctuate between 80Mbps and 300Mbps down. Upload at best 30Mbps. Not lucky to live in a fiber neighborhood. All the cable providers are worse than 5G alternatives though I’m certain the 5G services will get worse with age
I would settle for 100x slower but uncensored Internet.
Where do you live? Can’t be the US.
In this point, China isn’t worse than the US currently.
That cable/wiring setup is going to be expensive
It’s cellular
Oh wow!! Now that’s impressive
