Cozy in Japan with my EeePC, the apartment we are renting comes with an RJ45 jack in the wall that appears to be an optical fibre connection to the internet thru http://www.alpha-net.ne.jp/ (Japanese only) --- very nice!
Downloads aren't startling however initial 5% of an ubuntu iso from http://www.ftp.ne.jp/Linux/packages/ubuntu/releases-cd/ came down at 2~3MB/sec! after that it dropped down to around 700~800KB/sec which is what I get off of the Adam servers.
ross@eeepc:/media/disk$ ping google.com
PING google.com (74.125.67.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from gw-in-f100.google.com (74.125.67.100): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=175 ms
64 bytes from gw-in-f100.google.com (74.125.67.100): icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=176 ms
64 bytes from gw-in-f100.google.com (74.125.67.100): icmp_seq=3 ttl=46 time=179 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 175.522/177.196/179.537/1.773 ms
ross@eeepc:/media/disk$
Ping times are about half of what I see from Adelaide.
ross@eeepc:/media/disk$ ping google.com.au
PING google.com.au (72.14.203.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from tx-in-f104.google.com (72.14.203.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=59.0 ms
64 bytes from tx-in-f104.google.com (72.14.203.104): icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=57.6 ms
64 bytes from tx-in-f104.google.com (72.14.203.104): icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=59.2 ms
^C
--- google.com.au ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2007ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 57.674/58.647/59.228/0.720 ms
ross@eeepc:/media/disk$
And that's even better! LOL!!
