Comment Re:What Do You Get In The US? (Score 4, Interesting) 360
I'm paying approx. 5000 yen / month for "Hikari Fiber service" -- 100mb fiber to the house, and another 3000 yen for the PPPOE connection with fixed IP to bbexcite.co.jp. Call it USD 65.00 or so. Maybe a little high, but the service is solid, bidirectional throughput is excellent and no apparently filtering or traffic shaping.
I'm told other providers in our neighborhood offer equivalent throughput over copper (usen comes to mind), possibly at a lower price. There's also service available from the local electric utility TEPCO. And of course, lower throughput options like YahooBB are also available.
Having informally checked out each of these options, my impression is that at least in our neck of the Tokyo woods, service is not oversold regardless of which of these options you chose.
Friends back in the states to whom I've described this say I'm in for a rude awakening when we move back.
I'm told other providers in our neighborhood offer equivalent throughput over copper (usen comes to mind), possibly at a lower price. There's also service available from the local electric utility TEPCO. And of course, lower throughput options like YahooBB are also available.
Having informally checked out each of these options, my impression is that at least in our neck of the Tokyo woods, service is not oversold regardless of which of these options you chose.
Friends back in the states to whom I've described this say I'm in for a rude awakening when we move back.
