Japanese Internet vs. North American Internet

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Japanese Internet vs. North American Internet

God the truth??

[Soulburner]

On the mainland sure. But just like the US, connect anywhere else in the world and you run into slowdowns. It's all about bottlenecks.

[Celeron Gamer]

but considering the amount of living space in North America, I think the trade off is worth it.

[YukonTrooper]

If you want crazy bandwidth, go to Sweden.

[RPGWiZaRD]

Japan beats any countries when it comes to internet connection speeds but then again they very strict policy regarding filesharing. Our neighbour Sweden however isn't too bad either, with 10/10 and 100/100Mbit fibre connections available a bit all over the place and cheap too, some ISPs offer unlimited full duplex 100/100Mbit speed for ~$30 a month and 10/10 for around $20 a month, I've seen many users with monthly upload usage of several Terabytes a month and the ISPs don't take any action. That's like total opposite of what is seen in USA. Finland is too sparsely populated and doesn't get any funds from the government for broadband (unlike Sweden) so most people here are stuck to ADSL which is the connection type which is in clear domination over here. However it's nice to see the biggest ISP in my hometown is pushing for fibre connections where demand is big enough (you can fill in an online-form if you're interested in getting fibre optical access at your address) and that's a good initiative. Not like 24Mbit ADSL dl speed is like too slow but the price is still too expensive IMO at around 50 EUR a month, fibre once available would be cheaper.

[TheKarmakazi]

unlimited full duplex 100/100Mbit speed for ~$30 a month , I've seen many users with monthly upload usage of several Terabytes a month and the ISPs don't take any action. .

Ive had many a nice FTP from sweden... tons of fast links over there Decent speeds transferring to usa too 300k/s+ usually

[pcsky3]

I don't believe in that.