Dr Povey's group is already up to 130 megabits a second (faster than some older Wi-Fi routers) over a distance of about two metres, using standard LEDs.
Researchers in China recently showed that, using a one-watt LED bulb, li-fi could connect four computers to the Internet at data transfer rates up to 150 megabits per second.
Several large companies, like Google, Facebook, and Space X, are already working together on a project that will bring the Internet to everyone on the planet at speeds over 1 megabit per second.
At a whopping 0.05 megabits per second, the average person could access a whole new world of information pixel by pixel, but that didn't stop people from enjoying the internet.
And while some have complained about Valve's choice of a wifi five chip instead of wifi six I saw 580 megabit per second download speeds from gigabit fiber over a powerful wifi router.