(€38) Per month for 2 GB download and 1 GB upload speeds.

Nolars

No its not Ireland of course :P Seeing **** like this from around the world makes you sick.

TechTrade | 16 Apr 2013 : "A Sony-backed ISP in Japan has launched a 2Gbps Internet service, which it said is the world's fastest for home use.
So-net Entertainment began offering its "Nuro" fiber-based service on Monday to homes, apartments, and small businesses in Tokyo and six surrounding prefectures. Nuro will cost ¥4,980 (€38) per month on a two-year contract, plus a ¥52,500 (€410) installation fee that it is currently offering for free for those that apply online. The upload speed is 1Gb/s.


The company said the service includes rental of an ONU (optical network unit) designed to handle the high speeds. ONU devices are commonly used in homes and business to convert fiber to broadband Internet. Individual users of the service are unlikely to see 2Gb/s speeds on their devices, as it exceeds the capacity of most consumer network adaptors.

The Japanese government has strongly backed fibre connections to private residences, and the country is now among the world leaders. About 25% of Japanese households are currently connected, the second-highest rate in the world, according to data from regional FTTH, (fibre to the home), organisations. The UAE is the highest at over 70%.

Much of Japan's population in Tokyo and other cities lives in tightly packed apartments, which has made it easier to roll out fibre services. Services offering 1Gb/s are now common, with providers slashing prices and offering hundreds of dollars in discounts to draw subscribers. As in other countries, the rollout has been much lower in lower populated rural areas.

So-net said its service uses the GPON, or Gigabit-capable Passive Optics Networks, standard, which supports up to 2.488Gb/s downstream."


Read more: http://www.techcentral.ie/21343/sony-isp-launches-2gbs-home-broadband-in-japan#ixzz2R6KZYxj7

Doublelime

When I'm older I'm moving to UAE. No income tax (yes 0%, earn 100k keep 100k, not like Ireland where you earn 100k keep 50k) and because everything is so cheap.

partyatmygaff

Tbh, the speeds UPC are offering these days are more than enough for the time being. Maxing out 100MB let alone 150MB is pretty difficult.

2Gb sounds nice but most websites and resources have less bandwidth than that to serve their entire userbase.

Nolars

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Tbh, the speeds UPC are offering these days are more than enough for the time being. Maxing out 100MB let alone 150MB is pretty difficult.

2Gb sounds nice but most websites and resources have less bandwidth than that to serve their entire userbase.

UPC's downloads are fine for now but 10 up is noting great. Should be at least 30.

lotas

biggest problem with this is its Sony running it... no more Bit Torrent for you!

PogMoThoin

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Tbh, the speeds UPC are offering these days are more than enough for the time being. Maxing out 100MB let alone 150MB is pretty difficult.

2Gb sounds nice but most websites and resources have less bandwidth than that to serve their entire userbase.

It is for now......

UPC isn't even fibre. Think of the future and IPTV, you could have 4 Simultaneous 4K HD streams in your house, someday you will need this

lotas

PogMoThoin wrote: »

It is for now......

UPC isn't even fibre. Think of the future and IPTV, you could have 4 Simultaneous 4K HD streams in your house, someday you will need this

Some day, maybe, but given that UPC use DOCSIS 3.0 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docsis) which has no Maximum number of bonded channels, and each channel can push down 40-50mbits/s, which the average being about 8 channels, 400mbits/s is not bad... How much bandwidth is needed for 4K? Blu-Ray at 1080P requires only 40mbits/s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rate#Video) so 4K @ about 4X Resolution should only take up 160mbit/s... without extra compression that we get on a broadcast medium... plus, 4K TVs will only be available at sizes of 55" and greater... Who will have 4 in their house?

Mind you, i do agree... You can never have enough bandwidth!

listermint

PogMoThoin wrote: »

It is for now......

UPC isn't even fibre. Think of the future and IPTV, you could have 4 Simultaneous 4K HD streams in your house, someday you will need this

4K!! Maybe in 3 years time might see it making edgeways.

ED E

We cant really say for 4k yet as the compression standards will change over the next few years, we'll be on h.2XX by the time it comes to cable.

PogMoThoin

HD was the new spec a few years ago, now phones do 1080p. 4k isn't that far away, just a few years

ED E

Yeah, but cable is still 720p at best, and most channels are still SD.

partyatmygaff

PogMoThoin wrote: »

It is for now......

UPC isn't even fibre. Think of the future and IPTV, you could have 4 Simultaneous 4K HD streams in your house, someday you will need this

There's next-to-no publicly available content in 2K let alone 4K. Of course that'll change as soon as 4K monitors/TVs become more mainstream but that won't happen until there's some way of encoding it so that it doesn't take up such a huge amount of bandwidth.

Uncompressed, a 4K video takes up 480MB or so per second.

You couldn't even stream that using a Gigabit ethernet cable between two computers. H.265 for compression looks promising but i'd imagine it'll still be in the magnitude of GBs per min which is still well out of reach of more or less the entire planet save for some people in Japan/HK/South Korea. That's not a big enough market for 4K to really kick off.