Hakone, KOMPAS.com - fastest Internet connection in the world is not Japan, but South Korea. But, Japanese really successful example of the application of 3G technology. On the sidelines of the Media Tour with Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific journalists in Japan, 16 to 19 November 2010, Compass had fun trying different internet connection available.
In the test internet connection test at the Hotel Royal Park, Tokyo, internet connection in the hotel room, which provided for free, data transfer speed reaches 8.32 Mbps for download and 9.20 Mbps for uploads. Yes, to upload is higher than for the download, in contrast to the custom in Indonesia, which used to throttle bandwidth to upload the data.
Value speedtest ping to a server that is used to test in Tokyo shows that only 7ms fantastic figure, as there is only a server in addition to our computer used for testing. Evidence can be seen in http://www.speedtest.net/result/1032198443.png test.
Connections are tested through speedtest.net facility was detected using the provider Softbank, one of the top providers of data services in Japan. Tokyo is the main city in Japan, which connect directly to the international backbone network.
And what about data services in sub-urban areas in Japan? Compass back idly trying to connect in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture. Small town in the mountains usually visited by tourists to see Mount Fuji from near this census only has 13 339 (2010 data quoted from Wikipedia).
From the test results, the numbers are actually staggering to download shows to 10.01 Mbps and 9.36 Mbps upload. Detected connection using NTT DoCoMo, but the cost is not free which is around USD 60,000 per day (rates from the hotel). Evidence can be seen in http://www.speedtest.net/result/1035476167.png test.
Ping results show the value of the above tests in Tokyo that is 18ms, this may be because the server used to test this connection using Speedtest server with locations in Tokyo, a distance of more than 80 miles from Hakone.
With such connection, to download or download a 5MB mp3 file only takes about 4 seconds. To download a 35MB video clip, it takes only 11 seconds. If you want to download the movie file of 800MB, it only takes us about 11 minutes. To upload or upload a 1 MB email only takes 1 second, to upload photos 8MB only takes 7 seconds, while the video upload 35MB, it takes only 30 seconds.
That means, more kenceng than we move our collection of photos from camera to computer using a card reader with USB cable version 2, especially when using a USB cable version 1. Of course, to watch movies on the internet or watching videos on Youtube, as we watch a conventional television are no longer broken.
In Japan, it seems that cable television subscription fee is considered more expensive than the internet. Therefore, the hotels in Japan are not accustomed to jor-rod provides cable television stations such as the hotels in Indonesia generally, and instead equip the hotel room with a PC connected to broadband Internet.
Time to sue
If this experience is drawn to the conditions in Indonesia, if it were spelled Indonesia is a land of the swashbuckler to smell things that politics and business, it is difficult to refute. Yes, this time we have to compare how the Indonesian and Japanese 3G connections defined in their respective countries.
Indonesia, with the number of providers of GSM and CDMA mobile phone that provides data services, has long campaigned for and claimed use of 3G technologies, even the 3.5 G, or even currently testing 4G. Frenzied war was so intensive data services so that in every exhibition of information technology and computer exhibition, sale for a variety of Internet connection device, particularly modems, with a 3G connection or 3.5 G.
At the level of use of mobile phones, now there are almost no young people who use cell phones are not 3G because of the campaign about mobile phones based on 3G video calls that can be successfully performed. In fact, the connection obtained is still below the maximum range of hundreds of kbps, far from the promises of 3G connections that should be able to reach so many mbps.
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) does not define how much speed internet if a provider claimed itself as a provider of 3G services. But at least we agree that the 3G internet connection in Indonesia should not merely equivalent to GPRS only which is only 56-114 kbps, or worse less than the GPRS rate it.
How fast our internet connection at home or at work? Have to meet initial expectations when we buy a packet data? Come share your internet speed data, one with the use of tests in http://www.speedtest.net/.
Share you can do on the blog and also on various forums for internet providers in the country we are aware and willing to improve themselves for a better Indonesia. Do not exploit more consumers with promises of sweet! Time to consumer demand!
Friday, November 19, 2010 10:37 pm
Authors: Amir Sodikin
Editor: Glori K. Wadrianto
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