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 ·buckeye cable
| I'd switch to EVDO only...
If the following conditions didn't exist:
1. I didn't get my cable modem service for next to nothing (one of my work benefits).
2. The caps were in the 50 - 100 GB area. As it stands now, 5 GB just isn't enough to warrant using EVDO as a full time means of connecting at home.
I'm curious what kind of caps the Japanese have on their 100 Mbps wireless connections...
- Tate
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| 100 Mbps wireless? Now you're just making things up. From NTT Docomo's website (which conveniently has a lot of its pages in English), the "Flat-Rate Data Plan HIGH-SPEED" offers 3.6 mbps up and 384 kbps down, symmetrical 384 kbps outside of the high-speed service area. AU by KDDI's English website claims a maximum of 3.1Mbps downstream with no readily available upstream, and Softbank Mobile's (the old Vodafone Japan) English website wasn't too useful. These I believe are the three largest Japanese wireless carriers.
As for caps, annoyingly in Japan ISPs and networks are separate- you have to buy network access from a carrier like NTT Docomo, and then buy internet access from one of several ISPs. All of these ISPs pages are only in Japanese, so I can't get many details. |
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·buckeye cable
| Have a look at this:
»www.informationweek.com/blog/mai···eds.html
I know it doesn't say anything about currently deployed services in the 100 Mbps range, but field testing on 100 Mbps via cellular was successfully conducted as far back as 2005, so I have to believe that they're making some sort of progress with it. You're right though; I don't see anything anywhere that definitively states that 100 Mbps cellular is availble in Japan yet.
- Tate
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