Japan is welcoming the fastest internet connection !
The first of October is going to be a memorable day for Japan, KDDI the Japanese internet company will announce the fastest internet connection in the world 1Gbit/s !
the new service in going to be available for all and it’s the first company that gives such as internet connection, about the price it’s around 52$ per month.
The problem here is for the Wireless connection users because currently KDDI only supports 802.11b and g Wi-Fi so it does not really worth for them .
-Edit :
- The KDDI Official Announcement Link here (Registration & Payment Required)
- Thanks Daniel for the hint .
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Wow!!!This is great.I will hook on to this one by December when I move to my new apartment.Is USD52 the monthly price???Do you have a link to the original announcement from KDDI?
Hey Clement i have posted the link in the article, good luck !
Actually, the fastest internet connection in the world belongs to a 78 year old lady in Sweden.
http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/
Fastest in the world?
I live in Lund, a University town in Sweden and the majority of the inhabitants here have access to 1 GB/S internet access for more than a year.
(since there is no campus, it is not restricted to university housing, it is available to the whole town…)
But it requires a subscription to see the real article. Ugh.
1Gbps speed is also available in Drammen, Norway. NOt sure about the price, though.
More links to this:
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/09/29/japan-to-get-1gbs-in-the-home/1
http://www.japantoday.com/category/technology/view/kddi-to-launch-1gbps-fiber-optic-service-in-oct
How about 40x that?
75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed. Lothberg’s 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2007-07-19-swedish-woman-fast-internet_N.htm?csp=34
1GB is just fine ! heh
Sweden has faster
on an experimental system, they ramped it up to 40gb/s
i am still fine with my 56kbps dial up modem. why need fancy fast internet?
Just one issue, is there a Network Card that can handle more than 1gb?
I think by “fastest available in the world”, they really mean that it is the fastest commercially available. Small towns or an individual person with faster connections don’t compare to the majority of Japan having access to 1GB/s.
PLEASE let the **** up american nazi telecom companies learn from this. PLEASE…
It’s all fine and dandy having a 1 GB/s download speed, but what if the server you are connecting to can only work at a couple of MB/s?
Damn, I just got OCN hyper-family installed last week. Oh well, 100M is fine for now.
Ok please people, get this straight.
1 Gigabyte = 8 Gigabits
or even better
1 ____byte = 8 ____bits
from what the author put, it seems as though it is a 1 gigabyte (GB) and not 1 gigabit (Gb) connection.
so say you have the 40 gigabit connection. this is a 5 gigabyte connection. 40/8. its simple.
so make sure you pay attention to BYTE or BIT. so question for the author, did you mean Gigabyte or Gigabit?
Daniel,
The article CLEARLY says
“Not too late for now in the first of October and for the first time KDDI the Japanese internet company will announce the fastest internet connection in the world 1Gbit/s !”
Gbit/s is pretty self explanatory. Also when referencing an internet connection speed, the standard is to use bit definitions.
Also … why comment on that when no one was confused cept yourself
Daniel – the author said 1 GBit/s. That’s pretty obvious IMO.
Thanks for the heads up on bits and bytes though. I never knew that!
It is a convention in IT and networking circles that the byte nomenclature is used in the case of storage and memory and the bit nomenclature is used in the case of network bandwidth. So I would surmise that the bandwidth being announced is 1Gbit/s (ie 0.125 Gigabytes/s) Its still pretty impressive though.
The fastest standard speed is now 10Gbs. Not many places have it, but 10GBASE-T is an officially sanctioned standard. I just had to wire up my college with Cat 6A cable for the eventuality of installing 10G capable devices.
So all in all I’m not impressed. I guess the idea of having an internet company actually providing a gig over their lines is something momentous in a social or economic sort of way, but technologically it’s old news.
EV – The momentous part about this is that it is becoming available for private use. Sure in terms of large businesses it is not that amazing, but in terms of private use it is amazing. I have not found a single provider that will provide anything close to that for private use in the united states, or Sweden for that matter.
(I do know about the 40Gbit experiment in Sweden, but that is hardly available for all)
WOOOOW! It is to good to be true :) Let’s wait to see!
I wish UK ISP’s would sort their act out, and provide us with something similar. The most we can get in my area is 8mbps, which compared to other countries is ridiculous. And I live in a built up area, so it’s not that they cant justify it! I pay £16.99 for this service as well, thats about $40!
I hate the state of the UK’s internet at the moment, we have had ISP’s throttling torrent bandwidth for years now, and it’s dog slow to begin with.
I guess it’s time to move. I’ve always wanted to go to JP anyway. Super fast internet and awesome food. Can’t lose.
As long as we in the US stay calm we will never have a high speed net for home use and we will pay high prices. It is the nature of our governmental system that only when we act up, get to the point of riot, or find some leverage to force government to actually come alive and do something that we can get anything done. It’s time to act up!
I agree with you Dave, in Australia are speeds are woeful as well. i get about 5mbps at max.
ROFL a swiss guy beat japan with a cheap 40gb/s connection just google worlds fastest internet
The topic is quite hot in the net at the moment. What do you pay attention to when choosing what to write about?
We’re going to have 10Gb/s, in a year or so (so they’re saying…):
http://www.pplware.com/2009/07/24/vem-ai-a-internet-a-10-gbps/