Readers of a certain age may well remember when having a 56 kbps internet connection was considered fast. Then DSL came along and dial-up looked like a comatose snail in comparison. A team of engineers, though, have achieved a data transmission rate of 402 Tbps using standard fibre optic cables, so fast that you could download Baldur's Gate 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, and the entire Fallout 4 collection all in less than a tenth of a second.
Of course, nobody will be getting a 400 Tbps home broadband connection any time soon. The cost of the current setup is far too prohibitive for general users, but the development will certainly be of interest to the industry as a whole, ashave such a home broadband package.
Not yet, at least. A gaming PC from the 56k dial-up era would be a huge bottleneck on a modern DSL connection, so you never know—give it a couple more decades and we could all be moaning about how slow our 400 Tbps ultra-broadband is. Mind you, games will probably be a lot bigger than 150 GB by that point, too.