Broadband in Japan
Davey Small
What are the types and costs of broadband connections in Japan.
SPecifically in Kanazawa or the Ishikawa prefecture. I'm going ot be
moving there and simpley CANNOT go back to dial up. ATT/Comcast has
spoiled me.
Thanks
Dave
Brett Robson
I don't know much about the interweb thingy but I know das webmeister of
http://www.gol.com is a really great guy, although some of his friends are a bit
dodgy. GOL customers are both more intelligent and attractive than average and
do surprisingly well with the opposite sex, and in some cases the same sex.
.
----
"I went to Japan once, and was very dissapointed in what I saw."
quote from Japan Today forums.
Marc
"Davey Small" <mr-l...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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You will be happy with broadband in Japan. I had Comcast in the US and
B-FLETs in Japan, I found the B-FLETs connection was somewhat better than
Comcast.
My understanding is that broadband is more common now in Japan than in the
US
Davey Small
>
> You will be happy with broadband in Japan. I had Comcast in the US and
> B-FLETs in Japan, I found the B-FLETs connection was somewhat better than
> Comcast.
>
> My understanding is that broadband is more common now in Japan than in the
> US
That's good to hear. Does anyone happen to know the cost of these
conections? I have only seen one listing on the web that showed
fiber cptic at ~$50 USD per month and speeds as high as 100mbs. Is
this realy the rate/s? If so I'll be diggin it.
Dave
Bryan Parker
Dig this -
*Itemized Statement
Additional Mailbox Service(Monthly) ID:XXXXXXXX
500 yen
from 03/08/01 to 03/08/31
GOL B FLET'S New Family ID:XXXXXXXXXX
2,000 yen
from 03/08/01 to 03/08/31
---------------------------------------------------------------
Sub Total
2,500 yen
Consumption Tax
125 yen
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total Amount for the month
2,625 yen
--
Bryan
gaijenesis -
noun: the event that is a beginning; a first part or stage
of subsequent events of gaijinhood
Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson
<puntspe...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>*Itemized Statement
>Additional Mailbox Service(Monthly) ID:XXXXXXXX
>500 yen
> from 03/08/01 to 03/08/31
>GOL B FLET'S New Family ID:XXXXXXXXXX
>2,000 yen
> from 03/08/01 to 03/08/31
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>Sub Total
>2,500 yen
>Consumption Tax
>125 yen
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>Total Amount for the month
>2,625 yen
Plus 2800 yen or so on your phone bill? Or what extra is Beeflets?
Ken
Marc
I think I was paying about 4000 yen a month
Bryan Parker
said:
Looks like my wife either pays 4300 or 4500/month
to NTT http://www.gol.com/personal/ntt_b_e.html
It's certainly a lot better than the 30,000+/month
that she used to give them for an ISDN CONnection.
Michael Cash
<puntspe...@yahoo.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going
with:
>Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson <ken_ni...@hotmail.com>
>said:
>
>>On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 22:47:59 +0900, Bryan Parker
>><puntspe...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>*Itemized Statement
>>>Additional Mailbox Service(Monthly) ID:XXXXXXXX
>>>500 yen
>>> from 03/08/01 to 03/08/31
>>>GOL B FLET'S New Family ID:XXXXXXXXXX
>>>2,000 yen
>>> from 03/08/01 to 03/08/31
>>>---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>Sub Total
>>>2,500 yen
>>>Consumption Tax
>>>125 yen
>>>---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>Total Amount for the month
>>>2,625 yen
>>
>>Plus 2800 yen or so on your phone bill? Or what extra is Beeflets?
>
>Looks like my wife either pays 4300 or 4500/month
>to NTT http://www.gol.com/personal/ntt_b_e.html
>
>It's certainly a lot better than the 30,000+/month
>that she used to give them for an ISDN CONnection.
Man! That brings back memories of connecting to CompuPerve via nifty.
Davey Small
So all in all, not bad. Faster connections for about the same than I
am paying now. Good, very good.
Thank you all.
Dave
"And they ate the minstrels and,
there was much rejoicing......yeeeaaaa.... . . ."
Marc
"Michael Cash" <mike...@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message
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> Man! That brings back memories of connecting to CompuPerve via nifty.
that brings back memories of getting monthly bills from chumpuserve via
nifty even though I had never signed up for them. Even now if I do an email
search using my name, my old and never-used chumpuserve email address shows
up.
Chris Kern
posted the following:
>So all in all, not bad. Faster connections for about the same than I
>am paying now. Good, very good.
>
>Thank you all.
If you get Yahoo BB you also get the "BB Phone" which lets you make
calls to the US at 2.5 yen a minute (and the first two months of calls
are free, at least under the current deal). It just goes through your
normal phone and normal phone line.
-Chris
thegoons
of her outside Namba station recently with the hottest little campaign-girl
outfit (g-string thong clearly visible). Have no idea if their Broadband
service is any good but the campaign gets 10 out of 10.
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Michael Cash
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>On 3 Oct 2003 10:28:38 -0700, mr-l...@comcast.net (Davey Small)
I recently discovered that even my piece-o-shit ISP provides the same
service, at the same rate. Gotta sign up for it one of these days.
The 2-Belo
>Tell me who the YAHOO BB (Yahoo Broadband) babe on the ads is?
Ryoko Hirosue. And I don't really understand the appeal.
>I saw a clone
>of her outside Namba station recently with the hottest little campaign-girl
>outfit (g-string thong clearly visible). Have no idea if their Broadband
>service is any good but the campaign gets 10 out of 10.
Really? After about 284,178 showings of the commercials on TV over the last
month, I'm kind of sick of it.
PS. Call me biased, but after 2 months of B-Flets, I can't imagine anyone
wanting to waste their time on ADSL if fiberoptic is also available. Trust me:
it's worth every bit the 7000 yen per month.
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The 2-Belo
I decided not to do that, because everyone I'd ever want to call in the US is
already wired and using MSN Messenger, which means I can just start a voice chat
with them and talk to them as long as I damned well please for exactly zero yen
per minute. Plus, I have a webcam to torment them with.
I can understand using IP telephony to call people who aren't on the net, but I
prefer taking advantage of what I've already got.