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Japan Confirms Kizuna Satellite Internet Is World's Fastest, Blows Our Crappy Broadband Away

Generally speaking, the state of broadband in the United States sucks. Hard. You know what sucks harder than your crappy DSL line? Satellite internet—it's stupid expensive and super slow. Except in Japan. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency is reporting that their tests of the world's fastest satellite internet—155Mbps downstream to homes, and 1.2Gbps to businesses with properly endowed antennas—have been successful. Not only to they plan to cover all of Japan, but a fair bit of the Asian Pacific region. Meanwhile, we shit ourselves over 50Mbps cable that runs $150 a month. [JAXA via Impress, JAXA (More Info, readable)]

3:10 PM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By matt buchanan
7,592 views, 35 comments

Latest by n/a: I have internet connections all over the world in places I have business branches and yes our prices here are failures by comparison. Satellite has lag it always will but it you are steaming Youtube for example, once it starts the more »

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Japan's Kizuna Satellite to Beam Souped Up Internet Connection Back Home

Japan is launching the Kizuna satellite, which will bring high-speed internet access to Japan's remote territories and neighboring countries, as well as providing continuous networking in case of emergency. The $342 million project, spearheaded by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is expected to culminate in internet connections reaching speeds of 1.2Gbps, dwarfing current ADSL connections that typically allow data transfer to occur at below 8 Mbps. Users will need to install an antenna to be able to receive a signal, but for those speeds, I'd be willing to trade in a pound of my very own flesh. More »

8:00 PM on Sun Feb 24 2008
By Haroon Malik
6,276 views, 29 comments

Latest by buckminster: At an altitude of 22,240 statute miles, one way light time is .11 seconds so latency is a show stopper. more »

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Panoramic Mecha Simulator Arcade Game is Networked, Awesome

It may look like a decompression chamber, but Senjo No Kizuna is a networked arcade game in which you pilot a Mecha against other players. The game, developed by Banpresto, is, according to notre ami de Akihabara who gave it a spin, pretty damn good. Regular players can log their gaming history (scores, weapons, etc) on a card, so they can play in whichever arcade they fancy without starting from zero each time. Regardez le video below for a closer look. More »

6:40 AM on Fri Oct 19 2007
By AddyDugdale
12,081 views, 27 comments

Latest by kronik: i saw this in an arcade in japan, though it was gundam themed? there were 4 pods and you could follow the action and player statistics on an lcd tv next to the pods. on top of that, there was more »