Meanwhile, internet speeds in Indonesia and the Philippines are the equivalent of creeping along a jungle track.
Long-distance Asian internet hookups are now faster then ever
If you fancy a long-distance Asian internet hookups now available, we have good news: the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) submarine cable has been completed and brings 100Gbps of connectivity to the region. The cable lands in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam during the course of its …
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Friday 18th November 2016 00:48 GMT RichardB
Last year I ran a speed test on my home adsl in manila. Same website that I usually use from the UK.
Figured it would be a disaster, so pretended it was a no longer very active provider with a not very good name.
Turned out I have one of the fastest connections that it had ever seen.
The wifi is crap on the supplied box, but the fibre broadband is great :)
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Thursday 17th November 2016 12:54 GMT smartypants
100Gbps to 54Tbps?
Had to look it up. Very interesting tech. The first link is great because they have pictures of the repeaters and branching units, and lots of graphs (which I like)
http://www.ofcconference.org/library/images/ofc/2014/Market%20Watch%20and%20SPS/2-Aoki.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-channel