sure, remoted place very slow.
too expensive to provide them with good servive in first world country
but singapore is not a remote place.
singapore is a city
so we compare city to city
i being to Seoul, Tokyo, Nagoya, Amsterdam, NYC all much faster than Singapore.
So fast, you can download a blu ray film raw.
it is call fiber optics. real fiber optics, not the bullshit PAP try to sell you.
1Gbps = 1000Mbps = 125 MB/s - the speed between your CPU and your HD is much less than that.
Amsterdam Tests Residential 1Gbps Fiber
While city muni-fiber operation delivers fiber to the house boat...
(old news - 01:49PM Thursday Sep 11 2008)
tags: Fiber · business · bandwidth · world · municipal
Amsterdam not only has one of the busiest global Internet exchanges, but consumers also see some fantastic speeds in a city that increasingly treats broadband like a utility. Cable operators have been testing 120Mbps pre-certification DOCSIS 3.0 speeds, the city was the first in Europe to see Wireless WiMax, and they're also deploying municipal fiber thanks to private investment funds and an organization named CityNet. Cooperatively with Netherlands carriers GNA, BBned, and InterNLnet, the outfit has just concluded a 3-day test of 1Gbps connectivity for residential consumers over their network.
"The technical results are quite satisfying," says CityNet's Managing Director Herman Wagter (this older interview is a must read). "The upgrade to 1 Gbps was easy," Wagter says in an e-mail announcing the project. "The STB's are not yet stable but do perform well enough. The transfer speeds to disk of a normal laptop is too slow, a desktop PC will give you 500 Mbps, an optimized PC reached 990 Mbps symmetrical transfer." Not only is CityNet running fiber to the home, they're running fiber to the houseboat (which, if you've visited, are almost as common as bicycles):
It seems the company has developed a new type of optical connector that allows houseboat owners to physically connect to Amsterdam's CityNet fiber-optic network upon mooring and disconnect whenever a trip is necessary. "Trials proved that with minor modifications, a very robust beam connector originally developed for military applications is ideally suited for houseboat applications. It can be cleaned easily and has good transmission characteristics."
As for bumping speeds to 1Gbps, Wagter says that the price levels of equipment are dropping to a level where "1 Gbps seems to become commercially viable", and the consumer equipment for fast and practical home networks (including settopboxes for full HD) is appearing on the market. "So it seemed a good idea to do some testing to prepare ourselves," he says.
Roughly about 40,000 homes (and houseboats) are currently connected to the CityNet network, with the plan being to bring connectivity to half a million. For those interested, CityNet has posted a YouTube video of the 1Gbps connectivity test. The 120 meter patch-cord shown in the video is new bendable fiber, a variant of which, made by Corning (see video demo) is now being used for FiOS installs in NYC.
Not really. I loss count of the number of countries which have slower speed on average then us. Even a country with fast connections like Australia has its own set of problems. The number of open wireless internet area is pretty limited and the charges are very high. The fact that internet connection is not always readily available in public places means that there's no point having a fast connection even if you are the gateway between Asia and the US since foreigners like us isnt going to find it easy to get connected to anywhere. I cant even get GPRS signal on my blackberry at some of our plants in Australia though I have to admit those plants are usually located in ulu areas.
The problem is compounded by the fact that a good number of hotels(even the better ones) in Australia, and I've stayed in almost all the major cities around the country(cept Darwain), doesnt even offer internet access or access at really slow speeds. The same goes for Taiwan however the rates in Taiwan is by far a lot cheaper then that in Australia and even SG.
And seriously the situation isnt that good in Europe either, the speed isnt that much better and but the fees you pay are ridiculous to say the least, Connectivity isnt so much of an issue however as far as I could find, all their plans have limited access.
I heard Korea has a decent infrastructure but I havent actually had the chance to go around looking but Japan is pretty well covered however very often I found the network is not totally free, a number of P2P software are totally blocked or badly restricted.
But seriously if you only consider speed of access, we're actually not that bad, if you consider area of coverage we're not that bad either.
