Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer

Most of the city area in Japan will have the optical fibre link ready to be connected inside the house.


And because of the competition between the providers, the discount rate is quite big and you could get 100Mb broadband at only around GBP15.


In UK, BT started the Infinity service that has the download speed of up to 40Mb and 10Mb for the upload.


In order to carry out some research for their new products that will go even faster (100Mb), I decided to give it a try for a limited period.

So, last week, one engineer visited my place and ran the optical fibre to the side of my house wall.


He had to travel back and forth between my house and the exchange box which was bit far away but eventually confirmed that we were getting good signal between the two places and ready for the next step.

So, today, another BT engineer showed up and started to install the GPON terminal inside my study and also connected the new BT Home Hub3.


Although the actual installation of the equipments were very quick, we had to wait for a long time for the comm. link and some data exchange between the GPON and the other end.



Finally, the link was established and already I’m getting about 39Mb download and 9.2Mb upload speed.


With the standard Sky broadband, I was getting about 3 – 4Mb download and several 100Kb upload speed as my house is miles away from the exchange.


It will take several days for the link and speed to be stabilized so not sure when I can move onto the 100Mb speed test but will see how it goes.


Already helping me a lot in several areas including uploading the files to NSXCB site.

Kaz