I have been to quite a few countries but I must say Japan just stands out in internet connectivity. Overall connectivity is just amazing out here. As I landed on airport in Fukuoka, I noticed open free wifi (just one signup online form to accept TOS and it was up), later I noticed Fukuoka City Wifi project and it’s really visible across streets and very much works. As
I got to hotel, I was given SSID for wifi and it was just up! No crazy proxy, no crazy use of hotel room numbers/last name combinations. I was getting 20Mbps speed on wifi. This was a clear sign that transit was not bottleneck and likely wifi/end point connectivity was the one which was putting it on to 20Mbps (802.11n on a good quality router with 5Ghz). As I connected my laptop on wired LAN, I noticed (which I did expected by now) - connection synced at 100Mbps LAN and that was pretty much internet speed I was getting.