List of ISP to check / ignore

[JeanValjean]

Hello everyone,
I was reading few topics, including this one ISP Connection and I saw that Japanese ISP are still limiting data ? 30GB a month with Flets ? LOL !

Anyway, I really need your help now and I think it will be good for a lot of peoples. Making a list of the best ISP is a thing you cannot find.
And when I say best, list has to include price but download limit and website blocked. Because yes, some ISP have a list of blacklisted website (like China, ya know) when even a VPN will not work.

I don't read japanese so well so I may mistake.

Kakaku list of ISP in Tokyo

Major ISP in Japan <- meaning a lot of bad side.

My goal is to stream HD almost everydays so I do not want to see any limit in upload / download. So is it possible guys that you help me to find the best ISP and saying why it is ? Thank you!

[matsuki]

30GB a month? I do that in a day on my Flets connection?? Are you saying they throttle it down if you go beyond that or is this some sort of new plan?

[LUBA]

30GB a month? I do that in a day on my Flets connection?? Are you saying they throttle it down if you go beyond that or is this some sort of new plan?

How many % of those 30GB in a day is pr0n related??

[yanpa]

I remember seeing something in the Flets t&c about a 30GB monthly limit, but have yet to experience any kind of issues.

[matsuki]

30GB a month? I do that in a day on my Flets connection?? Are you saying they throttle it down if you go beyond that or is this some sort of new plan?

How many % of those 30GB in a day is pr0n related??

Looks at rack of HD's....

I don't want to know.

Seriously though, I stream a bunch of kaigai videos and am constantly uploading product videos, pics, websites, marketing materials and such. Then there is the wifi connected keitai and whatever that adds to it. 30GB in a day is totally feasible.

[Coligny]

yup... 30gb that's around 2-3 days max here. just me. I don't want to know for the rest of the Klan or even what the Masheenz are doing ...

[Taro Toporific]

I remember seeing something in the Flets t&c about a 30GB monthly limit, but have yet to experience any kind of issues.

Ditto here.
Flets has never limited my connection that is well over 30GB a week because I'm streaming Netflix/YouTube/AmazonPrime through my TV 18 hours a day.

What's more far important than the particular ISP you use, is the throughput of your VPN because insane location restrictions for streaming (and Japan's jailtime for t0rrentlng).

[wagyl]

(and Japan's jailtime for t0rrentlng).

Surely it is not illegal to torrent Linux distributions.

[JeanValjean]

I remember seeing something in the Flets t&c about a 30GB monthly limit, but have yet to experience any kind of issues.

Ditto here.
Flets has never limited my connection that is well over 30GB a week bescaue I'm streaming Netflix/YouTube/AmazonPrime through my TV 18 hours a day.

What's more far important than the particular ISP you use, is the throughput of your VPN because insane location restrictions for streaming (and Japan's jailtime for t0rrentlng).

Can you tell us how much it cost for your connexion ? And about speed (There is two differents flets actually). Did you ever had a website blocked even with a vpn ?

[Taro Toporific]

(1) Can you tell us how much it cost for your connexion ?
(2) And about speed (There is two differents flets actually).
(3) Did you ever had a website blocked even with a vpn ?

(1) My internet is bundled with my cellphone and telephone fees, but separated out Internet costs less than 2,000yen/m.
(2) My B-Flets plan claims "Download speed maximum 200Mbps, Upload speed maximum 100Mbps" but in reality it averages 120Mbs down and 40Mbps up.
(3) Nothing is "blocked" in Japan and don't think Japanese ISPs are throttling or traffic-shaping either. However, VPNs often arbitrarily block torrents (or cancel service without refund like StrongVPN just did to me, grrr) .

[Mike Oxlong]

When I used to have Asahi-Net service, Vuze claimed that traffic was throttled.

[Coligny]

When I used to have Asahi-Net service, Vuze claimed that traffic was throttled.

I don't think they have the technical competence to do this...

and by the speed of some of my transfers (like "oh shit, didn't know my router could take this transfer rate without melting" quick) I don't think they do.

BUT
it is also important to avoid buying dirt cheap acces router for your home... or even worse, pocket wifi bridges...
if your router don't even have gigabits ports... it's certainly good for the museum.
just before our usual flock of retarded nitpicker start shitting on the thread.
it's not the gigabit speed of the port that is important, it's the implied powerful hardware running the show behind.
AND don't do traffic shaping on your own either...

[Mike Oxlong]

Thanks for that. When I noticed it, was using the NTT provided router. A friend whose P2P software can't even establish a connection has many years old router he bought - not sure how cheap it was.

[JeanValjean]

Okay, the best choice I could find for now is OCN (from NTT)
The english website is fine, but too expensive (gaijin are all rich ya' know...) . If you go to kakau, you will get best price.