Yeah, everybody here in Japan has a 100Mbps optical fiber connection that never has an outage and runs about $40 a month. Of course you don't need that much speed given the size of an order, but it's nice to have.
Quote from fullblotter:
I traded at the Westin Hotel in Tokyo in March of 2010 and was astonished at how fast the connection was. I normally trade in Ontario, Canada and the connection was as fast if not faster! I was expecting lag time because in Hong Kong and Singapore there was a slight lag, although not too bad, but it was perfect. You can easily do micro scalping from Tokyo.