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China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds (www.techradar.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

We're not using the bandwidth we have. Many US cities have service with 1Gbps download speed available. I have it for my own reasons. Servers are the bottleneck; they rarely even reach half that speed.

If we're not using 1Gbps, why should we believe something would pop up if we had 50Gbps?

Now, direct addressing where everyone can be a server and bandwidth utilization is spread more towards the edges of the network? Then you have something that could saturate 1Gbps. But you can't do that on IPv4.