Sony Launches World's Fastest Personal Internet in Japan

[MrTub]

Well, to New York I get quite a bad speed, 30Mbps download and 5Mbps upload, and to Tokyo even worse, but I do have 100Mbps download and 50Mbps upload local and NY/Tokyo are an ocean away. This is why I love Romania. I don't get 10MB/s in BitTorrent for nothing. Oh yea, all of that for 3USD per month, but I am one of their customers since they were a new neighborhood ISP and that was in 2007. They span half the capital now and it still has ups and downs, but quite reliable nonetheless, not to mention Customer Support. EA should learn something from them. )

Edit: I chose a server outside my town. Quite obvious that I would get the highest speeds in the same town. And NY Optium.

[http://www.speedtest.net]

[http://www.speedtest.net]

Edit 2: NY Inerail, the highest speed I could find in NY.

[http://www.speedtest.net]

Another Swede posting

[http://www.speedtest.net]

200/10 for 29euro a month. (Sweden)

 

[Esoomspark]

You guys are complaining about speeds 10mb/s or lower.

In Australia, the maximum fastest speed that i've ever had was not even 500kb/s.

It's usually 200kb/s.

Patience is a virtue, friends.

 

[RicoADF]

*Meanwhile in Australia*

... Japan.
Please help us!
PLZZZZZZZZ

But in all seriousness it would of been nice to got aid from Japan to make our internet awesome.
Because well ... ours suck.
Like really, really, REEEEEEEEEALLY sucks.

So yeah Australia ... it would be nice if you got on the ball. :/

Though I do understand if we can't, we do have a lot of stuff going on.

Sydney Australia here, 100mb/s and smooth as silk, although 2gb/s does sound nice *scratches chin*

You guys are complaining about speeds 10mb/s or lower.

In Australia, the maximum fastest speed that i've ever had was not even 500kb/s.

It's usually 200kb/s.

Patience is a virtue, friends.

Where the hell do you live, cook island or something?

 

[unstabLized]

I usually can push to 4 MB/sec while downloading on Steam, but my God. Give me that internet speed and unlimited downloads and I will be happy for the rest of my entire life <3

 

[Marak Daga]

yay for being in japan getting the wife to find out if they service our area. also only $300 au setup fee too ( including other things). so pretty good deal all round! i still have to find out about a dl limit though ( eg if there is one)

 

[Marak Daga]

And yet all the servers are still in the USA meaning all that infrastructure is pointless until they move the servers to Japan to actually bring out that full potential of that connection. Australia and South Korea also have very powerful infrastructure but because the majority of servers they connect to for example file sharing and video games is in the USA they still will have a shit connection.

on the contrary. connections like these will be great. personally we have 6 different bandwidth hogs in my house, ps3 2xsmartphones, laptop, ipad mini and pc.

atm we only really use 3 concurrently but with more people on using the same network we all get better speeds each.

and theres a lot of non-us servers around too, too assume they are all over there ? jeez get out of the house a little more eh?

 

[uchytjes]

*remembers downloading Bioshock Infinite the past weekend.

256 kb/s at the most... it took me an entire day to download that game.

*shakes fist at University for lack-luster internet service in the dorms.

 

[Marak Daga]

And yet all the servers are still in the USA meaning all that infrastructure is pointless until they move the servers to Japan to actually bring out that full potential of that connection. Australia and South Korea also have very powerful infrastructure but because the majority of servers they connect to for example file sharing and video games is in the USA they still will have a shit connection.

on the contrary. connections like these will be great. personally we have 6 different bandwidth hogs in my house, ps3 2xsmartphones, laptop, ipad mini and pc.

atm we only really use 3 concurrently but with more people on using the same network we all get better speeds each.

and theres a lot of non-us servers around too, too assume they are all over there ? jeez get out of the house a little more eh?

What was that? I'm sorry I can't read what you typed compared to the amount of porn I'm able to DL faster than you with a basic cable connection

But seriously, yes obviously there are servers of all types in all regions. However it still is very annoying when ya say pick up a game of LOL or DOTA or even back in the day with Warcraft III and Starcraft and ya still get that ONE guy from god knows where from Russia and decides, "Ya know what? I'm gonna play on the US servers". Yeah freaking genius there turns what should be an overall easy experience into a lagfest cause everyone is waiting on that one guy's connection. Ya get me on that?

lol i hear you on the games that use us servers.... but i generally dont use them. for gaming my pings pretty good to europe so no stress playing fps with them, (dayz no worries).

and you need more than 5 min of porn? ya doing it wrong!

 

[ckam]

I have 1.5 Mb/s. How unfortunate.

 

[Strazdas]

2gbps downstream, but how much upstream? without upstream downstream is completely useless.

Just some of you have access to higher speeds, doesn't mean the average isn't as low as 3mbps. AVERAGE, people. The average doesn't concern itself with individual numbers.

if your average is that low, there is something extremely wrong with your country and you should be very worried. some 3rd world countries have it better.

Probably need just a little more googling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fiber

1GB in the US is our best and handily beats pretty much everyone but Japan of course. Granted we need to wait a while for it to cover the US but that is the plan as I understand it.

Congrats Japan

Here in lithuania we had 1gbps for couple yesrs. very limited location so far, most places are still limited by 100-300mbps (deneding on ISP).

 

[SteewpidZombie]

"In later news this week. It appears that a mass Exodus to Japan has begun worldwide. Many critics are now citing 'Higher internet speeds' as one of the many reasons. More news on this story as it develops, but in the mean-time I gotta go catch the earliest flight to Tokyo".

 

[DkLnBr]

seriously? I have this:

[http://www.speedtest.net]
Come on Sony! Give me us some loving!
(seriously, it took me like two minutes to open the escapist site)

 

[stabnex]

This reeks of a prelude to an always-on requirement/streaming-only feature for an upcoming Playstation console...

 

[acewolf1569]

My internet speeds are just pathetic most of the time.

[http://www.speedtest.net]

 

[immortalfrieza]

Ok... and does it say anywhere just how much it costs to achieve those kinds of internet speeds? It would be ludicrously expensive I'll bet.

As for my internet speeds, I live in the U.S. and use comcast, and I get this:

[http://www.speedtest.net]

Which is more than enough to load pages in less that 2 seconds and download most anything in only a few minutes. I agree with Product Placement when he says that 2GB is such a unnecessary massively high connection speed, it's way more than just about anybody would realistically need for just about anything.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

I'm currently on 100Mbits down and ~5ish up, though annoyingly my router caps out around 60ish and I haven't gotten around to upgrading it yet. But wow, for 2Gbits...and with only 1Gbit network cards easily available too...

 

[viranimus]

Of course it is fast. You can only access sony approved sites. You are forced to keep all of your software up to date and as soon as a new software update is released you do not just update, you have to get an entirely new connection because there is no possibility for backwards compatibility. Now for only the introductory period you will be informed you can use this on any operating system, but after the first year updates will require you to give up using windows, mac, android, linux for an all new, untested hybrid of Sonys personal OS built on a Solaris framework. Your stored cookies will also be hijacked so that if you refuse to switch Operating systems, the SoNet will forcibly keep you logged into all of your accounts across the internet so that you have to comply with SoNet ToS even if you have abandoned it and returned to an actual ISP.

Sony, No. I dont care if it is 100gbps, Until you grasp how to provide "Service" to customers you will never be worthy of the slightest hint of trust or interest.