Coming to Japan: high speed internet via power lines
Also from Yahoo News:
The government plans to enable high-speed Internet access via existing power lines instead of telephone or cable TV lines, government officials said Wednesday.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications will revise a ministry regulation and start accepting applications for the Internet access known as power line communications within this year, the officials said.
In a recommendation report submitted earlier in the day, the Radio Regulatory Council, an advisory panel for communications minister Heizo Takenaka, favored the lifting of a current ban on power line communications, the officials said.
In the planned service, power lines at home will be used as a local area network by attaching special modems to power outlets. The system is expected to be capable of transmitting information at a speed equal to that of data communications via fiber optics.
I already have a fiberoptic connection, but who can say “no” to more ultra high speed internet acess options? The ability to download torrents at 2.0 megabytes a second is something that may keep me in Japan for some time..
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Hmm. . .and keep Japan fossilized in the early days of electricity. I guess, though, since they don’t bury their dead, generally, why should they bury their power lines? I’m aslo glad they learned so much from the live-wire elctrotastrophe caused by the Hanshin quake; conservative Japanese government at work. Maybe next they will revive Dundrearies and the Reimeikan.
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Isn’t your fiber much faster then 2 mega bytes? Mine certainly is…
http://www.imbermedia.net/blog/en/2006/05/24/holy-fast-internet-batman/
I’ve got Teppco with DTI for the provider in Saitama.
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I’ve got 100 mbps hikari fiber, but I never actually download files on bit torrent faster than 2 megabytes per second.
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James, you may be capped at 10 m-bits-ps or so, if you have the typical manshon B-FLETS plan, or whatever they call it. We have that cap, even though at last count there was only six or seven people signed up to it.
Mind you, at 2,500 yen per month I’m not complaining!
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That’s probably it, Ken. Although I have been known to download porn from Japanese sites at about 3 megabytes a second. Is non mansion plan B-Flets is actually capable of regulary downloading stuff at speeds much higher than that?
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