News Japan to get 1Gb/s in the home

Yes, but 125MB per second is still 7500MB per minute, that makes 7.324 GB per minute, or the biggest HDD (1.5TB, formatted capacity roughly 1.3TB) filled in a tad less than 3 hours.

 

for people who want to emigrate may want to consider the "extremely spacious luxurious apartments" of 3x3m for extremely high prices. Not to mention the non existing parking space, but they have good futuristic transportation and the like...

 

@ LeMaltor , Wow dude! never noticed that. I thought that GB is same Gb. Thanks alot for the info

mean I will download 86400GB / 8 Gb = 10800GB every day not bad

@ naokaji, Dam you are dam good in math your math looks right !

@ spoon.uk, Dude I thought you guys don't have 'Fair Usage Crap' it's freaking ****. 150GB/month! that is dam low.

 

You sure mate, with a place like Dubai, you would think there would be pretty fast speeds considering the unlimited amount of money they have.

Even Egypt has 20mb BB.

 

I mean in home use... max is 2MB for each home

but business board band hahahaha don't even ask. they have things like 20 - 50 - 100 MB

 

omg, that's ridiculous. i mean... i am jealous.

 

for the above math, remember hdd's only have a sustained write of around 100 MB/s So 1 Gb/s won't give you much 100 mb/s coudln't give you for a single user experience. Also not to mention... those are max speeds I'm running on 16 mb/s comcast but with packet loss etc that's more like 4 mb/s sustained to my computer. Also the content host has to be equally as fast and able to handle multiple connections at those speeds... something I don't think is prooven.

I'm not sure why I'm being a wet blanket, but saddly high speed broad band isn't really available in the US mostly due to the low population density some of my friends can still only get dial up or satellite. I hear some small rural communities are paying for fiber optic but it's not widespread yet

 

Great net, shame about the house prices! Best of all is the mortgage, it's a lovely present you get to pass on to your children.

 

Erm, a terabit is 1,000 gigabits, not 10,000. So 86,400 gigabits is 86.4 Terabits, not 8. So about 10 terabytes.

 

We also have 1 Gb in Slovenia but for a far heftier price - 1k €. For 50 € you can get 50/50 Mbit. Though only on fibre which is about 5 cities. It will be long before the whole country is on fiber (especially rural regions, like my village).

 

I'm with Be* and they do 24Mbit down and 2.4Mbit up (theoretical of course) for £22 a month with no caps, throttling or similar *******ry. Be* are pretty popular, so the £30 example used is a bit out of whack.

..... I know, still kind of irrelevant compared to Gb up and down... but I thought I would try and make it seem a "little" less like we are getting shafted here in the UK.

 

Grumble grumble grumble

Best I can get here is 8Mb cable and then they charge you $100 for one of their monkeys to come "install" in and $100 for the modem

I ended up going with 3Mb DSL which was still a pain in the arse, but at least it's in.

 

omg WOW... pointless due to hardware limitations... but still WOW and whats funny is computers per home is far fewer then anywhere else, well in the major cities of japan, they are more for the small and mobile end of things but ya wow... well one more reason to move to Japan, my list keeps getting bigger and bigger.

 

Well, my Uni halls' line gets 48Mbps on what was advertised as 2MBps.. that's uncapped.

I ain't complaining.

 

A terabit is actually 1024 gigabits.

 

Well i'm waiting for fibrecity to start laying cables here (bournemouth) which should get about 100mbs (which should mean a speed of 12 megabites a second max 12%) they are doing the installation for free at the moment, but who knows what price the service will be as they only do the cable to you house through the sewers and the rest is by another isp.

 

the thing is that it doesn't matter much having fiber at a local level when the UK is still running its core infrastructure on decades old twisted copper cabling. No government will spend the millions (billions?) needed to upgrade our entire system because it will be money being spent on something that the tabloid-addled general public won't see and hence will think is a waste of money and as such will result in them not voting for whatever party has the balls to implement something like that at the next election.

At the root of it all it comes down to politics and political survival, not money.

 

Around DFW, Texas, USA; Verizon is installing fiber to the home in new housing communities. Unfortunatly, the developer has to agree to it prior to any road work/land leveling. They would love to be able to install to existing neighborhoods, but dealing with city zoning for utilities is alot more costly to get that last mile to existing homes. Either by above ground lines, or in ground, it is not easy to retrofit existing utility pathways. Take into account that fiber can't be simply spliced as wire can, and that turning radius is alot larger, and that repairs, (think tornadoes here), can take forever to repair fiber breaks.
However, with multiplexing the fiber, (multi wavelengths of [colors] data can be upgraded in future once the fiber is installed), bandwidth is upgradable by new hardware repeaters and switching boxes.
Another point verizon is trying to corner is that, (at least here in texas), copper wiring is de-regulated here so anyone can feasably lease the wire, however fiber is not. So at least for the near future, they would hold all the rights as to who can use their fiber network. As they are installing into new homes they are providing a small battery UPS to protect users that pay for phone service through fiber, to allow the users phone to still function in the event of power outage, and this raises the cost per home install as well.

With all of this information, I don't see the majority of the US getting fiber anytime soon, and high bandwidth without reasonable limits even further away.

 

It's Symmetric/Asymmetric, Rather than Synchronous/asynchronous

 

In slovenia we have FTTH:
10/10Mbit/s 14€
20/20Mbit/s 28€
50/50Mbit/s 50€
100/100Mbit/s 100€
1/1Gbit/s 1000€