speedtest.net Tokyo
Download: 64.28 Mb/s
Upload: 36.63 Mb/s
Provider: K-Opticom (EONet)
... my friends and neighbours who use their services get much less speed than I do from K-Opti. This may vary with locality, of course.
Not only that but NTT has several different versions of their fiber optic service running in different areas. Or, actually, I should say that in some areas they have more than one version available. Which you get is
mostly a matter of chance.
In western Japan the most common types are:
B Flet's
B Flet's Premium
Flet's Next (100 M)
Flet's Next High Speed (200 M)
Flet's Next Express (1 Gbps)
Those are the basic types. If you live in an apartment building that has "Mansion-type" installed then those various types are deployed in various ways depending on the size of the building (number of units) and certain features in its construction design. Those deployment differences can have a big impact on the ultimate speed (and monthly cost).
The one you want is Flet's Next which comes in three versions, 100 Mbps, 200 Mbps and 1Gbps. Those are the "nominal" speeds, of course. I have Next 100 and as I mentioned earlier get speeds similar to yours.
*Several of my friends signed up with NTT. I am prejudiced against the company because of their extortionate business practices as a telephone monopoly in the 1980s...
Yeah, but it's hard to get away from them. You are likely still sending NTT money since K-opti almost certainly leases their wire from NTT.
... my friends got 3-4 year old fibre modems, routers, phone adaptors and wireless routers - 4 boxes in all. The wireless routers only supported the old IEEE 802.11b/g standard and not the much faster 802.11n which at the time of installation, fall 2009, had been around for about 4 years in draft form.
"Draft" being the operative word. That word didn't bother Jobs and Apple, but NTT is clearly more conservative. My own theory on the 4 boxes deal is that from NTT's point of view it makes perfect sense. Four boxes means four contracts with manufactures and that means, well, more dinners at
ryotei with all that goes with that ...
My friends' internet speeds were both distinctly mediocre despite having the much-vaunted NTT fibre-optic.
The new Next service uses just one box. The terminal unit, router and two telephone ports are all built-in. No wireless, however, that's an extra charge and another box. Whenever my clients ask about renting one of those, I give them a link to Apple Japan's English page and tell them to buy an Airport Express router.
I've put my NTT Next box in bridge mode, by the way, and I'm using an Apple Extreme to do it's work.
After NTT sales agents phoned me three times in one week after several weeks with calls, I asked them to call no more. I asked the next caller for his name and office contact address and said that I would be filing a harassment complaint with the Nara police. To their credit they never phoned again.
That's interesting. I think you are correct in calling them "agents" because I also get calls every week from "agents" of NTT. Being "agents" they are
not employees of NTT so I'm wondering how NTT got the word out to all their agents not to call you. I'm quite sure NTT didn't tell
me not to call you. But then I'm way over in Hyogo. Maybe they just told the agents in Nara.
If you're curious about which NTT Hikari system is available in your area, just go to my site and fill out an
Availability Check request form.
Jimmie
