I pay about $37/month for my connection (first 3 months were free). I live in an apartment, so it's cheaper because they just wire up the whole building. I think a home connection is like $50-60, not exactly sure.

It's roughly the same, though many times they do get the newer stuff a bit before it comes out in the US. Although, sometimes it's the other way around for example the iphone just came out not too long ago, but that was probably because it needed the iphone 3g version to work on the phone network here. The original iphone was never released here.

Did you try the Tokyo server? I got slightly better speed from there compared to the Yokohama server.

Try calling them up instead. I know for a fact that New York city (especially Manhattan) has the most FiOs coverage in America, there is a possiblity that there's no Verizon phone lines in your specific area though... (which technically shouldn't matter, but apparently does).

Verizon always advertises FiOs in every Yankees game aswell...

But yea, people that live in Asia (China, Japan, and Korea) have it pretty good in terms of internet speed/costs. decent broadband can be as low as $3-$5 dollars in China, that's even cheaper than dialup in America.

 cant see it.

what wireless phone companies are over there in japan?

Why not give it a shot.

sry

http://www.speedtest.net/result/313339884.png

I like my upload speed...

I think your upload/download rates are probably enough to get by, but the real kicker is your ping.  Did you choose the recommended test site?

Look at how much I suffer: