100Mbps FTTH broadband roxx my soxx
Finally got my FTTH service installed at home. For 2,980 yen a month, it’s crazy speed at 100Mbps!
Preliminary testing showed that I was downloading the latest Linux kernel (2.6.15.1) from a Japan mirror site at over 1 megabyte per second. Then I realized I was on 802.11G Wi-Fi, so I reckon it could’ve been much faster if I was connected over Fast Ethernet instead.
Gonna have more elaborate tests these few days. Before that, let me explain how FTTH works in my apartment:
The fiber connection comes into the building, into the riser room. And then the provider uses VDSL signals to provide access to each unit (that subscribes to the service) by tapping into the pre-installed phone jacks in each unit. Therefore, eliminating the need for a phone line! Which means I dont need to pay high price to rent/own an NTT phone line service. FTTH roxx my soxx! 
January 25th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
wtf! So damn nice… on WiFI also 1MB/sec… damn… you know; these days my BitTorrent is only giving me 20kb/sec… damn damn sad man….
Well, enjoy your FAST speed Internet access la… Don’t stream too much… (you know what)! hahahaha… ciao!
January 25th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
you mean linux kernel?
January 25th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
Well, that’s one of “many” things to stream… hahaha… don’t get too geeky in Japan la… after you come back we’ll be shocked!
January 27th, 2006 at 11:08 am
What is the upstream speed?
Do they have a traffic cap?
*Drooling*
Guess you might as well be download Solaris/SUSE whatever DVD image for testing.
January 27th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
no cap… think it’s 100mbps upstream also…. definitely gonna be downloading DVD images… but not so sure about Solaris/Suse…
January 27th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
JELESY.
February 8th, 2006 at 11:59 am
Wow no cap?
Can start hosting business man!
February 21st, 2006 at 4:01 am
yeah, FTTH rocks. I’m with Usen (in Osaka) and it is also 2,980 but 50up/100 down. It is dead cheap as they try to make money on VoD movies and features. I believe that you can get pretty close to 100 down if you download direct files from their servers. Normal web though is quite a bit slower.