Download Speed: 61 mbps
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It is every internet user’s dream - a fast connection at a reasonable price. The data show that Japan is at the forefront:
“…Broadband service here is eight to 30 times as fast as in the United States — and considerably cheaper. Japan has the world’s fastest Internet connections, delivering more data at a lower cost than anywhere else, recent studies show.”
link: Japan’s Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future ***
The average download speed in Japan is 61 mbps. In the United States, it is 2 mbps…
Catherine Forsythe
*** Thanks to Sari in Maryland, a regular contributor in the security community, for bringing this article to my attention.
[tags]internet, broadband, speed, Japan, costs[/tags]
2 Comments
P-Thunder.
August 29th, 2007
at 11:36am
That’s all well and good, but what happens if they need to download a file from a US server or a UK server? See if they get 61MBPS then..
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Jason Ellingsworth
August 30th, 2007
at 6:48am
This is largly due to the close clustering of people throughout their country. Most of their country is heavy populated vs the deserted states of our Mid-west. They also use fiber for their transport medium and we have not gone to this as a end user drop off connection.