Japanese Internet vs. North American Internet (pic)
 

Japanese Internet vs. North American Internet (pic)

:confused: Just wondering can that be true? Can't believe that.

Yes it can be, many many many factors can contribute to it, but overall i'd imagine their IT infrastructure over there to be slightly better than in america

who knows what kind of connections they used for the comparasion as wel.

Wouldn't surpise me if it were true. I'm not sure what population density has to do with it, though. But it wouldn't surprise me if everything else is so. I've always felt the internet should be a free service anyway.

The stats don't tell a great deal. There are too many factors to consider for this to be accurate. I never take notice of these kind of stats because often than not they don't paint the full picture.

Most Japanese enjoy great speeds at home. They also enjoy keeping us westerners out of their P2P networks by enforcing minimum transfer speeds that are hard to maintain from a residential cable or DSL connection on this side of the world.

Nearly everyone over there has fiber running into their home. The unlucky ones might still be on a DSL connection but it still offers service far faster than you'll see offered in the states or Canada.

I'm sorry but JP users don't all get 100mbit in their homes.

I don't care if it's free, I don't care if it's fast...

I would not go there... :mad:

http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/wp-c...ese_toilet.jpg

That looks hard to sit on....

I've not seen one of those toilets since I lived in Japan. Universal-sex bathrooms and squatting toilets - this pic brought back memories. :P

Ugh, looks like it'd be awefully easy to miss that if squatting >_>

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/11/34.png

Is that good or bad? Was a about 100 miles away from where I'm actually at. Closest destination was Seattle..