holy moly, how do they manage that?
and for only 38 a month? how?

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Originally posted by Haunted holy moly, how do they manage that? and for only 38 a month? how?

fibre cable is cheaper to lay than any other form, i'm presuming... whats more the service would be so popular in japan that they'd make a mint from all the people who would use it... only thing that would be hard to maintain is all the fkn routing/switching hardware which would be required for a project like that

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Originally posted by Haunted holy moly, how do they manage that? and for only 38 a month? how?

The only reason prices for internet access are so high in the U.S. is because the companies set the prices to be so high, not because of exceptionally high costs.

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Originally posted by -=M=- fibre cable is cheaper to lay than any other form, i'm presuming... whats more the service would be so popular in japan that they'd make a mint from all the people who would use it... only thing that would be hard to maintain is all the fkn routing/switching hardware which would be required for a project like that

Laying fiber is not cheaper than cat5. Terminating and splicing is a tad more tricky than cat5 and its recommended not to be bent over a 45 degree angle so you have to be careful with it. And if you get a break in it, it's a lot more expensive and time consuming to fix.

We had a 2MB fiber connection to our office once with an option of going up to 10MB. Trouble is it'd be a long time before you'd even reach a higher download speed than what broadband offers because everything works as a bottle neck. You may have a 1GB per second but if it only starts in Japan, the majority of US servers for example would undoubtedly have a slower connection speed to yourself, hence no change in download speed.

Although the growth in Internet & Broadband usage has skyrocketed above what anyone predicted or expected so this may come sooner than we think. I don't think it will be for a good few years though before home users start being offered fiber connections to their home.

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From what I have been hearing the broadband there is so good because they need to make up other areas they are lacking in such as poor tv reception and little to no radio reception.

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Yeah, I actually know someone with a 100mbit fibre connection in Japan. Too bad that Asian networks have poor routing to many other networks around the world..

Yep Japan has the highest percentage of BB subscribers in the world.. I though I was addicted lol

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Originally posted by Nou Its cheap their because of the high concentrations of people in small areas, you will have alot more customers, and it is easier to lay fiberoptic in those areas due to that small area.

Damn.. beat me to it

Fookin awesome deal tho.. you could easily stream dvd movies!

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Originally posted by DJAntSmith Laying fiber is not cheaper than cat5. Terminating and splicing is a tad more tricky than cat5 and its recommended not to be bent over a 45 degree angle so you have to be careful with it. And if you get a break in it, it's a lot more expensive and time consuming to fix. Although the growth in Internet & Broadband usage has skyrocketed above what anyone predicted or expected so this may come sooner than we think. I don't think it will be for a good few years though before home users start being offered fiber connections to their home.

what the dual???
granted fibre isn't EASIER to lay than cat5 but it IS certainly cheaper if you don't break it. it goes up to 1km in distance as opposed to cat5's 100m, meaning less requirements for signal strengthening

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We had a 2MB fiber connection to our office once with an option of going up to 10MB. Trouble is it'd be a long time before you'd even reach a higher download speed than what broadband offers because everything works as a bottle neck. You may have a 1GB per second but if it only starts in Japan, the majority of US servers for example would undoubtedly have a slower connection speed to yourself, hence no change in download speed.

ok. this is just a really bad paragraph. 2mbps is NOT fibre, fibre is 1000mbps, what you would have had was an ISDN/ADSL/DSL link if you were going at that speed. whats more the point of the article wasnt talking about transfer speeds across the world, it was talking about the amount of local bandwidth that would be available for video calls, multimedia, etc which would be greatly beneficial. and added to that is the fact that since japan is doing it, there may be more cities/countries in the world to follow it's lead after realising just how superior and readily available the technology in japan would become

sheesh get a clue