Why can't the rest of the world be like Japan?

[Recursion]

Ahh good point,

And yes that speedtest is correct:

This service connects subscribers of NTT East/NTT West to their Internet service providers via a high-speed optical fiber network at speeds of up to 100 Mbps/1 Gbps.

http://regist.spinnet.jp/cgi-bin/ad2...pn=2#broadband

Spinnet is part of Softbank Telecom.

[ideabox]

You want to move to Japan because of the faster internet connection?

[Neversoft]

Honestly - when will the rest of the world catch up?

Catch up? Japan hasn't even invented the chair yet.

[Recursion]

You want to move to Japan because of the faster internet connection?

No.....

[e5]

You just need to pay more for that speed lol

[Tintinnabulate]

I wish we had that here in the UK

[xxMATTGxx]

Haha, lucky people over there. Wish we could get faster speeds but our ISPs will probably charge us a bomb.

[N!ck]

I doubt even the government gets speed like that in the UK.

All the tax people pay in the UK should do something useful that everyone will appreciate for decades to come .

Lol of course they do. A fair amount of institutes will have 100Mbps like small-mid sized universities and large companies. Large universities will have 1Gbps type access and large web based companies. Large data centres will have several 10Gbps connections, 2.5Gbps conections, many 1Gbps connections and maybe one or two 40Gbps connections.

[Joe!]

We have 100mbps at college, mind you, we share a link with university next to us. The exchange is also across the road(not sure if that makes a difference with fibre optic).

[J0SH]

It's because Japan are like 10 years ahead technology wise.