Japan is great

[revil]

I'm getting fiber optic internet soon.... i get 100Mbps download and upload with it.... can you say, "WOOT!"

[gear02]

how much does it cost?

[mwatson]

Revil, where in Japan are you? I will be visiting a friend there in the spring. He is near Nagoya.

[bachviet]

Fiber optic

Now that's nice.

[psycho-]

100mbps government subsidised internet connection. For a country with poor broadband penetration and internet usage, Japan is well behind the curve. This is one of those things they're spending billions of dollars on to try to catch up to the rest of the world.

In asia alone, they're behind Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, in broadband penetration.

[_=DeltaForce=_]

Philly is gonna get Free WIFI....

[bachviet]

Philly is gonna get Free WIFI....

Cool but it's still not 100Mbps fiber optic.

[kimchicowboy]

well, the only way korea got so connected was through government subsidies too.

[LegendKiller]

Enjoy your time there, my boss lived there for 8 years and it seems like he had a lot of fun and wishes he could go back often.

And don't clog the whole country's backbone with the porn!!


LK

[InfiniteNothing]

Cool but it's still not 100Mbps fiber optic.

It might be.

[revil]

The whole shabang is about 7000 yen a month. i got the sign up fee knocked down to 800 yen and installation knocked down to 0 yen (from about 250000 yen). since i am splitting it with all the other english speaking people in my building, it will cost me about 800 yen a month. woo!

Revil, where in Japan are you? I will be visiting a friend there in the spring. He is near Nagoya.

I'm in the tokyo metro area.

[kimchicowboy]

for people's information, today's $:yen exchange is $1:111yen.

[gear02]

The whole shabang is about $63.33 a month. i got the sign up fee knocked down to $7.24 and installation knocked down to $0 (from about $2261.87 ). since i am splitting it with all the other english speaking people in my building, it will cost me about $7.24 a month. woo!


I'm in the tokyo metro area.

For those who need a conversion.

[cheapchinese]

is it true ....that all the living condition in tokyo are very small
Cause i've only lived in their hotel (vacation)

only thing i remember are their foods very small.. their hamburger's like happy meal in the US

[revil]

until it gets hooked up, I can leech off one of my neighbors! yay! I just found it and the signal is kinda weak, so i set up an antenna...

[Blitz]

is it true ....that all the living condition in tokyo are very small
Cause i've only lived in their hotel (vacation)

only thing i remember are their foods very small.. their hamburger's like happy meal in the US

Man, theres a few of them places in Tokyo called Oo toya or something rather...Man that place is soo good. I went there and a local katsu place almost every other day. (was in Jimbocho district)