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#fastestinternetThe Dream of Speed
The average internet user occasionally complains about the slow speed of their network but that whine has become more frequent as lockdowns forced people to stay at home during the coronavirus pandemic – and use up bandwidth.

Australian scientists, however, recently recorded the world’s fastest internet data speed and might be getting closer to a solution for the bandwidth problem, the BBC reported.

In a new study, researchers registered a data speed of 44.2 terabits per second, equivalent to the download of more than 1,000 high-definition movies in less than a second.

In comparison, the average download speed in the United States is 135 megabits per second – a tiny fraction of that.

Lead author Bill Corcoran and his team achieved the record speed using a “micro-comb” that replaced around 80 lasers found in some existing telecoms hardware. The equipment was tested outside laboratory settings on existing infrastructure.

The results displayed the highest amount of data ever produced by a single optical chip, currently used in modern fiber-optic broadband systems around the globe.

Corcoran hopes that the study could offer better insight and potentially transform internet connections in the future.

“This data can be used for self-driving cars and future transportation, and it can help the medicine, education, finance, and e-commerce industries – as well as enable us to read with our grandchildren from kilometers away,” he said.