Re: Metallic DSL in Tokyo

[Stephen Lee <sl@example.com>]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:36:58 +0900
Masahide Kikkawa <kikkawa@example.com> wrote:
> >Tod McQuillin (devin@example.com) wrote:
> >>  Apparently they used to be NATted (private IP) but now they are not
> >>  (global IP) -- the press release is
> >>  here: http://www.metallic.co.jp/topi/20001019.html
> >My Japanese reading ability isn't what it once was, so I'm
> >not sure if they mean the DSL modem/router was changed to a global
> >IP, or the boxes connected to it also where given global IPs.
> >Do you know?
>    My Japanese reading ablility is OK, but writing in English is not so..
>    Anyway, according to this press release, this means that the DSL 
> modem/router has global IP, and the boxes connected to it will have private 
> IPs. (I am not sure for later part, but it is usual.)

According to my understanding of
<http://www.metallic.co.jp/topi/20001013.html>, they used to assign
private IPs to your PCs but will switch to global IP.

>    As for making server,
> http://www.metallic.co.jp/faq/dsl.html#2
> 
>    will give the answer.

They didn't outright say it is forbidden, just "We recommend you to use
the SDSL services."  Is that Japanese-speak for "don't do that on ADSL"?

Also, is there any 'catch' about the Family 640 service?  If for the
same price you can get multiple global IPs, why not?

Also, NTT-ME seems to be offering static IP ADSL.  It is slower than
Metallic but if static IP is what you want...

<http://www.wakwak.com/adsl/index_en.html> English
<http://www.wakwak.com/adsl/> Japanese

Stephen