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There is no mention of how the internet connectivity is.

by janmo 5y ago

dubcanada 5y ago
huh? It's not a real estate website. It's a news website. Go look it up for yourself.
- janmo 5y ago
  I think this is an important point. I would consider living in a remote area, but usually the internet access there goes from very slow to non-existing.
  - vnchr 5y ago
    Coming soon to your farm… StarLink!
  - jacoblambda 5y ago
    If the house is in the few thousand to tens of thousands of USD range, you could probably afford to pay for a fibre run out to your property with the money saved compared to the cost of a house in the US or EU.
  - dubcanada 5y ago
    None of the information has anything to do with a specific location, every single individual house has specific internet options. You can't say, oh all of rural Japan gets 10mbps. Cause every different part has different options. You need to go look at a real estate website that has internet availability information.
  - hocuspocus 5y ago
    This is Japan we're talking about. Remote isn't that remote. Like numpad0 mentioned above, even in the outskirts of small towns, you can typically expect aerial fiber pretty much everywhere, and the actual broadband options will depend on the last few meters.
    - janmo 5y ago
      Thank you, this is the kind of information I was looking for.
numpad0 5y ago
I see utility poles and neighboring homes in the photos, so most likely gigabit wired and LTE wireless are available. Amazon Prime next day delivery probably works too.
3np 5y ago
Japan has extremely good fiber connectivity. You can live in a small cottage high up on the mountainside of a small village and have the NTT monopoly get you near-1Gbps installed for 20,000 yen and ~5,000 per month. You can usually get cable for cheaper and even the LTE can be good enough for many.
- bruxis 5y ago
  I'm not sure where you have this impression from, but I can assure you that in many non-urban areas getting fiber (hikari) is a non-option. Many folks resort to LTE or WiMax to compensate, which has poor performance in general and even worse in poor weather. For context, even in Tokyo, you would be surprised at the number of apartment buildings that come with shared 100Mbit lines for 30+ units, with no way of installing faster direct lines (in large part due to owner/agency refusal).
  - numpad0 5y ago
    It’s NTT policy or something to lay only single 1Gbps fiber per building, ever, so if you’re living in a single family home with nice front yard you’re forced to share the fiber with — no one else. But for 30 units apartment your connection is at mercy of 25 kids trying to download Apex Legends in background while taking remote schooling classes. If you’re desperate find a place that already has or allows Sony Nuro installation. They lay fibers given owners’ permission, whereas NTT won’t and just send you a Fast Ethernet VDSL modem(with a blue Cat.5 8P4C cable to match!)
  - fomine3 5y ago
    No. 1Gbps FTTH is very common choice even in rural area. Fibre covers 98.3% of family in 2020 [1], thanks to NTT Flets. Sometimes FTTH internet in rural residence is better than VDSL or crap internet service in urban apartment because of some apartments won't allow to sign up another fibre line instead of those crap. [1] https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000680621.pdf https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000680621.pdf
  - 3np 5y ago
    > For context, even in Tokyo, you would be surprised at the number of apartment buildings that come with shared 100Mbit lines for 30+ units, with no way of installing faster direct lines (in large part due to owner/agency refusal). This is almost always the owner/agency actually. The above discussion is in context of being the owner.
walrus01 5y ago
One of the things that has led to widespread gigabit class FTTH in Japan is that they're not averse to using overhead utility poles and lines almost everywhere. As an ISP it's much less costly and complicated to do real FTTH if your infrastructure can be purely aerial.

There is no mention of how the internet connectivity is.

by janmo 5y ago

There is no mention of how the internet connectivity is.

dubcanada 5y ago

huh? It's not a real estate website. It's a news website. Go look it up for yourself.

janmo 5y ago
I think this is an important point. I would consider living in a remote area, but usually the internet access there goes from very slow to non-existing.
- vnchr 5y ago
  Coming soon to your farm… StarLink!
- jacoblambda 5y ago
  If the house is in the few thousand to tens of thousands of USD range, you could probably afford to pay for a fibre run out to your property with the money saved compared to the cost of a house in the US or EU.
- dubcanada 5y ago
  None of the information has anything to do with a specific location, every single individual house has specific internet options. You can't say, oh all of rural Japan gets 10mbps. Cause every different part has different options. You need to go look at a real estate website that has internet availability information.
- hocuspocus 5y ago
  This is Japan we're talking about. Remote isn't that remote. Like numpad0 mentioned above, even in the outskirts of small towns, you can typically expect aerial fiber pretty much everywhere, and the actual broadband options will depend on the last few meters.
  - janmo 5y ago
    Thank you, this is the kind of information I was looking for.

numpad0 5y ago

I see utility poles and neighboring homes in the photos, so most likely gigabit wired and LTE wireless are available. Amazon Prime next day delivery probably works too.

3np 5y ago

Japan has extremely good fiber connectivity. You can live in a small cottage high up on the mountainside of a small village and have the NTT monopoly get you near-1Gbps installed for 20,000 yen and ~5,000 per month. You can usually get cable for cheaper and even the LTE can be good enough for many.

bruxis 5y ago
I'm not sure where you have this impression from, but I can assure you that in many non-urban areas getting fiber (hikari) is a non-option. Many folks resort to LTE or WiMax to compensate, which has poor performance in general and even worse in poor weather. For context, even in Tokyo, you would be surprised at the number of apartment buildings that come with shared 100Mbit lines for 30+ units, with no way of installing faster direct lines (in large part due to owner/agency refusal).
- numpad0 5y ago
  It’s NTT policy or something to lay only single 1Gbps fiber per building, ever, so if you’re living in a single family home with nice front yard you’re forced to share the fiber with — no one else. But for 30 units apartment your connection is at mercy of 25 kids trying to download Apex Legends in background while taking remote schooling classes. If you’re desperate find a place that already has or allows Sony Nuro installation. They lay fibers given owners’ permission, whereas NTT won’t and just send you a Fast Ethernet VDSL modem(with a blue Cat.5 8P4C cable to match!)
- fomine3 5y ago
  No. 1Gbps FTTH is very common choice even in rural area. Fibre covers 98.3% of family in 2020 [1], thanks to NTT Flets. Sometimes FTTH internet in rural residence is better than VDSL or crap internet service in urban apartment because of some apartments won't allow to sign up another fibre line instead of those crap. [1] https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000680621.pdf https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000680621.pdf
- 3np 5y ago
  > For context, even in Tokyo, you would be surprised at the number of apartment buildings that come with shared 100Mbit lines for 30+ units, with no way of installing faster direct lines (in large part due to owner/agency refusal). This is almost always the owner/agency actually. The above discussion is in context of being the owner.

walrus01 5y ago

One of the things that has led to widespread gigabit class FTTH in Japan is that they're not averse to using overhead utility poles and lines almost everywhere. As an ISP it's much less costly and complicated to do real FTTH if your infrastructure can be purely aerial.