YBB's 50 MB ADSL service Sucks BiG TimE!

[Bongo]

[tonikoro]

I have to say, can't go wrong with Hikari fiber.
I have it through NTT, and it's been fair since. They come and feed it right off the pole into the house, and into a fiberOp modem. It works, it's stable.

[Bongo]

I have to say, can't go wrong with Hikari fiber.
I have it through NTT, and it's been fair since. They come and feed it right off the pole into the house, and into a fiberOp modem. It works, it's stable.

Yeah, as much as I hate NTT, I am comming round to thinking it is one of the best services around.
What does that cost you every month? I hear Asahi net is a good provider to go with the BFLETS service, much cheaper than GOL and faster.

Do you get good constant throuput in tests such as this one?
http://www.musen-lan.com/speed/

[emperor]

After using Yahoo BB for nearly all of last year - I had to pay an extra months rental cause i hadnt notified them of cancellation "early enough" - I wouldve thought 2 weeks notice would be sufficient..

[tonikoro]

I think it was about 5000-6000 yen, my wife would know more than I, but we got in on it after having ODN flets. -which was going to total shit connection wise. best to catch them during Campaign time, for lesser is the installation cost (if any) Only thing I can say that blows in any case is the tech support you get in japan, however there was a number I dialed for NTT that was 24 hrs. that was nice.

[Lifer]

[Bongo]

Yeah, fiber optic doesn't degrade over the distance from the place serving it.
Not that this could be the problem in my case though. My problems stem from YBBs over rating their modem speeds.
Maybe we should have a YBB modem speed poll to see how much people are getting out of their YBB rated modems?
Ha.....

[stuckinkysuhu]

I'm on 10 megabit cable in Oita prefecture, not exactly the high tech center of Japan. Nevertheless I routinely get download speeds over 1000 kilobytes per second when downloading using one of those utilities like flashget, and my record is closer to 2000. That's bytes not bits. I've had friends on hikari that say they can't get that much from the same sites. I wonder what the deal is with that.

[Bongo]

I'm on 10 megabit cable in Oita prefecture, not exactly the high tech center of Japan. Nevertheless I routinely get download speeds over 1000 kilobytes per second when downloading using one of those utilities like flashget, and my record is closer to 2000. That's bytes not bits. I've had friends on hikari that say they can't get that much from the same sites. I wonder what the deal is with that.

Oops........Sorry.

[tonikoro]

I would concur with the above info on Hikari, again, it's fast.

Not sure about other areas of japan, but round here it's either NTThikari or cable via StarCat, who I looked into but at the time had not crossed lines into the kinjo for maters of the shikansen being close.

Anyway, NTT Hikari Fiber is good also for the number of machines that they support for one connection. I run all of my machines off a wifi Airport, and it's just peachy.

[puargs]

In my experience, I've never had an ISP tell me the truth about their services, no matter where it came from. Although this is in the states, I'm pretty sure most people's experiences are the same no matter where they are. The most consistent problem I've found is that they'll give you a quote on downstream and upstream, and then you must cut the downstream in half, and the upstream in eighths to get the real number. In the US, you can't possibly expect a better connection than 600kBps download and 15 kBps upload, unless you want to pay like 3x for "unfiltered" services that don't cap your connection.

In the states, this applied to Aol, Earthlink, Mediacom, InsightBB, a local DSL service, and even Sony's BB-through-cellphone feature (with blazing speeds of up to 22kBps! )