ROME, March 22 (Reuters) - Negotiations on a potential contract between Elon Musk’s satellite internet operator Starlink and the Italian government have stalled, reflecting broader geopolitical tensions, Italy’s defence minister said on Saturday.

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      Lmao. I wish. I am on a 50 MBIT (not GBIT) connection. And yes. I want more. Please give me just a few crumbs.

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          Oh I’m sorry I might be kind of an idiot in IT stuff. What I meant was 50.000 megabytes. Which is poor as hell. Even for developing countries.

          Really, all I know is that my connection sucks and that I’m on the lowest posisible speed.

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            No, I think you mean 50 megabits per second. I’d consider 100mbit (megabits) average, 50 000 megabits, which is equal to 50 gigabits (or ⅛th of 50 000 megabytes) would be ludicrously unnecessarily much for a residential connection today, and it’d be hard to find hardware to support it.

            Just for reference:

            • Modern DDR5 Random Access Memory can be bought for 8000 mega transfers per second, which is pretty high end. According to wikipedia, this is roughly 64 gigabytes per second.

            • PCIe 4 SSDs can reach up to 7GB/s or 56 gigabit/s of data transfer speeds. PCIe 5 drives cap out at roughly 16GB/s or about 128gb/s.

            I don’t think your internet would be quite that fast, or at least you wouldn’t be complaining about it 😅