In Japan, a 900 Gigabyte Upload Cap, Downloads Uncapped

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."

Comments

Re:Seriously?

[sconeu]

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?

[The End Of Days]

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

[Jurily]

900G a month should be enough for everyone.

How?

[jadedoto]

The next step is figuring out how to upload that much each day.

Re:There is no need for this for ordinary users

[Anonymous Coward]

Youtube in HD.

You lose.

For you young folks... that was funny.

[Anonymous Coward]

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

[rrohbeck]

That clearly shows how bad their Internet infrastructure is compared to the US, where we have *unlimited* accounts!

Re:Seriously?

[The End Of Days]

Whatching? Is that some fiendish portmanteau of whacking and watching? You Japanese porn fans are weird in so very many ways...

Re:First Post

[inotocracy]

It must be this guy.

Re:Download caps

[K. S. Kyosuke]

I am also not sure who would want to download those wedding movies :-)

And what about wedding night movies?

900 GB cap is unacceptable in my opinion.

[Xizer]

I regularly upload more than 900 GB in a month on a residential connection and I live in the United States. I thought Japan was supposed to be some kind of broadband utopia? I must say, I am disappointed.

Re:Seriously?

[Spy der Mann]

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 :)

Well when did it get layed then?

[patio11]

Before? :)

Re:There is no need for this for ordinary users

[Alibaba10100]

~30gb porn

Good god man. You should switch to hentai, its easier to compress.

Re:Bandwidth cap? Not here

[Reality Master 201]

It's what sane government regulation gets you.

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?

[Zontar The Mindless]

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

[dmbasso]

my deja-vus are getting weirder every time...