I may head to a rural area soon( Rural town either in Nagano or Shizuoka) and I’d like to find from teachers in various rural areas how your internet setup is. I have a few questions:
1.What is you current internet speed?Please give numbers if possible.
2.How much are you paying for it?
Thank you so much.
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Depends on how many substations and neighbors you have using the internet. NTT has 1Gig service nation wide and 2Gig available in most urban areas. From there you chose a provider. It is usually 4 to 6k a month depending on your plan.
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If you live in an apartment you get what they have and that can be a roll of the dice. Leospace, the company all dispatch and eikaiwa companies seem to use for rentals, is notoriously slow.
[https://www.speedtest.net/result/12200376362](https://www.speedtest.net/result/12200376362)
From Nagano to Tokyo
I live in a house in northern Hokkaido but didn’t want to pay for wifi installation (thought I’d only be staying a short while) and got pocket wifi. Yamada air mobile WiMAX. $44 a month, 10GB per 3 days limit. When I’m over the limit (basically always thanks zoom) I get about 1 mbps download speed. I can get almost 3mbps using 4G from ilj Mio (uses Docomo) which costs me $40 per month.
If there’s a wired option in your residence, I’d recommend trying that.
Also worth factoring in the cost of cancellation as a lot of options I looked into for home wifi required a 3 year contract.
I’ve lived in Nagano. Company availability varies based on where you live. But honestly the bigger problem I’ve encountered is landlords who let one company run lines 10 years ago and refuse to allow another company to drill holes and run their lines.
I lived in a super small village of around 1000 people. They had fiberoptic lines and the speed was insane.
Used to live in Niigata and the speeds were great. Just as a side-note, be aware that providers hate bittorrent here and will cut you off if they catch you doing it. Not that I would know anything about that….
Not a teacher but this is semi rural outside fukuoka
https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/4818229751
was between 100-200 speed for me
AU hikari. All in I pay 6700 / month. Would be about 1200 cheaper, but I opted for the 500 yen router fee (to use the router they gave) and stuck paying off installation costs at about 600/month.
Speeds – Usually get around 200mbs up/down at any time of day.
Rural city. Pay 4400/month for gigabit fiber. Actual speed is 50-300 (as low as 10 on Friday evenings) because they massively oversold the fiber line.
Around 6k yen for 150-300 MB/s, depending on the time of day. Upload is always over 300 MB/s. It’s blazingly fast most of the time.
I had issues for a while, but eventually discovered it was a known issue caused by a change on their end. Changed a few settings according to their instructions and everything fixed itself.
Yesterday, a Steam download went over 40 MB/s. Yeah, even in a rural area, the Internet is pretty fast.
The slowest thing often is getting hooked up to the Internet, especially if your apartment/house/building isn’t connected already. I had to wait almost two months before they connected my place. If your employer provides an apartment, you’re usually in business from the start though.
Leopalace internet sucks, but its included in the rent. So, meh speeds. It SUUUUUCKED when everyone was staying home more often.