In Japan, a 900 Gigabyte Upload Cap, Downloads Uncapped 368
Raindeer writes "While the Broadband Bandits of the US are contemplating bandwidth caps between 5 gigabyte and 40 gigabyte per month, the largest telco in Japan has gone ahead and laid down some heavy caps for Japan's broadband addicts. From now on, if you upload more than 30 gigabyte per day, your network connection may be disconnected. Just think of it ... if you're in Japan and want to upload the HD movie you shot of yesterday's wedding, you soon might hit the limit. The downloaders do not face similar problems."
First Post... Drat (Score:0, Funny)
Stupid 300 baud
Re:Seriously? (Score:5, Funny)
Note to all future submitters and to the editors.
From now on, please add *lt;SARCASM> tags for the sarcasm-impaired.
Thank you.
Re:Seriously? (Score:5, Funny)
Catching the subtleties isn't really your thing, huh?
Personally, if I have to live with the connectivity options in the US for actually being able to see genitals in my porn, I'll consider it a fair trade.
Re:Download caps (Score:5, Funny)
900G a month should be enough for everyone.
How? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Download caps (Score:1, Funny)
Re:There is no need for this for ordinary users (Score:5, Funny)
Youtube in HD.
You lose.
Re:Download caps (Score:2, Funny)
640k should be enough for 1.87 seconds.
For you young folks... that was funny. (Score:3, Funny)
There was a time there when the Mars lander had faster network speeds than I had in my house in a populous region of the USA. Nobody was willing to bring cable or DSL to our town, but the damn lander had a 256K connection.
I feel so sorry for the Japanese (Score:5, Funny)
That clearly shows how bad their Internet infrastructure is compared to the US, where we have *unlimited* accounts!
Re:Seriously? (Score:3, Funny)
Whatching? Is that some fiendish portmanteau of whacking and watching? You Japanese porn fans are weird in so very many ways...
Re:First Post (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Download caps (Score:5, Funny)
And what about wedding night movies?
Benefit of HD News? (Score:3, Funny)
900 GB cap is unacceptable in my opinion. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Seriously? (Score:0, Funny)
What the hell is satalite? Some form of slower than normal SATA? Or one that uses a "Lite" cable? Less filling on the grommets? Come on, inquiring minds want to know.
no-suck-luck-in-tennessee (Score:1, Funny)
Re:There is no need for this for ordinary users (Score:2, Funny)
You clearly don't have a internet porn addiction
Re:Seriously? (Score:5, Funny)
I can't figure out what this CAP acronym is... anyone have any ideas?
CAP is a recursive acronym for "CAP Acronym? Please!". Hope that has enlightened you :)
Re:I feel so sorry for the Japanese (Score:3, Funny)
No kidding. I have Comcast and I've downloaded 30 GB just tod [NO CARRIER]
Well when did it get layed then? (Score:5, Funny)
Before? :)
Re:There is no need for this for ordinary users (Score:3, Funny)
~30gb porn
Good god man. You should switch to hentai, its easier to compress.
Re:Bandwidth cap? Not here (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but you don't see the dark side of what that regulation gets you - universal healthcare, decent public transportation (compared to most of the US), lots of vacation time. Your wealthy people probably don't get anything like the tax cuts ours do. Practically the third world, that.
Re:Seriously? (Score:5, Funny)
I moved from Australia to Sweden last year.
Me: "What's my bandwidth cap?"
Swedish ISP Tech Support Guy: "What's a 'bandwidth cap'?"
Me: :)
Re:might be someting else (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Seriously? (Score:2, Funny)
LOLCAP is in j00r t00bs, eatin up your bandwidthz.
Blu-Ray (Score:3, Funny)
Time Warner's highest level tier for their experiment with usage-based pricing is 40 GB/month. This is less than the capacity of a single Blu-Ray disc. Sony must be doing a happy dance.
Re:Seriously? (Score:2, Funny)