Know how I was just talking about Japan's new super fast satellite internet....

[ActiveAero]

........well they've stepped up the game even more.

As of the first of this month KDDI, one of Japan's largest telecom companies, just ramped up it's $57 per month land line internet connection to 1GB/s down and UPSTREAM. :O

This means they'll be able to stream full screen 1080p content at about the same rate most of us que up a shitty low res youtube video. :(

[ChukiDori]

They could download CS4 creative suite in under a minute O.O; Or any of the lastest FPS games in under 10 seconds!

24 hours of porn in 3 minutes!!!!

[Grider]

One of the other network engineers at work is married to a Japanese girl. Her mom still lives in Japan. He has a VPN setup to run an VOIP setup between two Cisco IP phones. He sits in his living room and picks up the cisco phone dials four digits and mom's phone rings just outside of Tokyo.

They also video confrence across that link as well.

The MIL in Japan has the low end package at about 100mb/s for 20 or 30 bucks a month. He is using a 3mb/s DSL package from a local company that is hosted close one hop off our network at work.

[ActiveAero]

They could download CS4 creative suite in under a minute O.O; Or any of the lastest FPS games in under 10 seconds!

24 hours of porn in 3 minutes!!!!

Well it won't be that fast. That's like saying an 8mb downstream connection here actually downloads at 8mb per second. Remember the "b" in bandwidth is bits so you basically divide by 8.......meaning an 8mb service here will download at a "real" rate of about 1mb. This equates to a "real" rate of approximately 125mb per second for their 1gbs service which as we all know is fast as balls.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[Grider]

Well it won't be that fast. That's like saying an 8mb downstream connection here actually downloads at 8mb per second. Remember the "b" in bandwidth is bits so you basically divide by 8.......meaning an 8mb service here will download at a "real" rate of about 1mb. This equates to a "real" rate of approximately 125mb per second for their 1gbs service which as we all know is fast as balls.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

No that is about right. MB (MegaByte) is different from Mb (Megabit). Connections are measured in Mb.

The problem you run into is the same problem we have measuring the speed on our backbones using "consumer" tools like the speedtest results like in my sig. You either cannot have enough connections with a single computer or download to use all of a big connection. Or the server is on a smaller pipe and you are actually measuring their speed and not your own. :D

Here is a link about the 1Gb/s FTTH setup in Japan: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/092608-japans-kddi-to-offer-1g.html?hpg1=bn

[AlmosN8kd]

Let them download a virus superfast. :D


I kid, I kid.

[phillyd]

what is teh internetz?

[TooSlowToCare]

what is teh internetz?

it's a series of tubes through which information travels. it was also invented by al gore.

[xamraci]

it was also invented by al gore.

just like global warming

[JamesCameron1]

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_DjDt_rQmRi4/RqqlGFfr5fI/AAAAAAAACGc/bcAiBOk8-rc/300px-Notabigtruck.jpg

[skyhighsami]

Bellsouth was supposed to be going to a higher speed than what we offer now to provide IP TV. However after the merger was announced plans got shelved and they have only been mentioned here and there. Right now the best we can offer is 8.128 meg down and 512 up however the max rate down is 712 but they have it restricted for some reason on the up but not the down. The plan was to take 2 or 3 pairs to the house wired at the DSLAM or SLC system and basically bridge the speeds together to provide 16 or 24 meg service. This is from memory and stuff that was said at a meeting several years ago so I might not be 100% on the details. I am pretty much one of the main DSL techs in Montgomery and I try and stay involved with what is coming out and etc, though I haven't heard anything about it. It is clled Uverse and we have rolled it out in some markets but not this one. We were supposed to have it in 06 but like I said all big purchases and investments were stopped until after the merger. Now with the CWA contract and people talking strike there will be more delays until after that in 09. It won't be what China has but anything would be better than what we have now.