Sunday 28 April 2013

World's fastest home internet is in Japan - download speed: 2Gbps

What is the likely speed that you get from Malaysia's 3G broadband? Maybe 2Mbps, maybe 5Mbps if you are lucky.

How about the so called 4G? Claimed to be up to 75Mbps but the likely speed the folks will get is just 20 to 30Mbps of download speed.

Well. In Japan, we have the world's fastest internet service with 2Gbps (2,000Mbps) download speed. That's about 1,000 times faster than our average speed of 2Mbps!


                                             Illustration by Nuro


Engadget reported that Japan has the world's fastest commercially-provided home internet service called Nuro. Launched on April 15 by Sony-supported ISP So-net, the fiber connection pulls down data at 2 Gbps, and sends it up at 1 Gbps.

An optical network unit (ONU) given to Nuro customers comes outfitted with 3 Gigabit ethernet ports and supports 450 Mbps over 802.11 a/b/g/n. When attached to a two-year contract, web surfers will be set back 4,980 yen (RM154) per month and pony up a required 52,500 yen (approx. RM1,630) installation fee, which is currently being waived for those who apply online.

Consumers can register their house, apartment or small business to receive the blazing speed, so long as they're located within Chiba, Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Tokyo, Kanagawa or Saitama.


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1 comment:

  1. sure it is very fast but some websites are still slow because they can't handle heavy traffic

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