Re: DSL in Tokyo (again)

[Kevin Elliott <Kevin.Elliott@example.com>]

One month on, I'm wondering if you (or anyone) got your DSL setup?
I'm thinking too of subscribing, what is the service quality like? Do you
really get super fast downloads, or are the ISP's being overloaded with new
high bandwidth users?

eAccess certainly looks attractive, GOL currently have a special on where
they waiver certain setup fees :-)

I'm wondering, do they restrict the net access at all, i mean no proxies,
firewalls, port blocking, and IP masquerading? I'd love to be able to run a
webserver from home! how nerdy would it be to be able to control the Air
Con from an iMode phone on the way home?!

Rod Holmes wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm not sure if this company was mentioned in the recent DSL thread,
> but I'm so over-the-moon happy that I can finally get DSL in my
> apartment that I wanted to make sure everyone knew about eAccess and
> wasn't put off by their badly organized web page.
>
> I use GOL for an ISP; they sent out a spam on Monday with a URL of
> supported areas. I clicked on it figuring I'd get the same old NTT
> page that would again tell me, "Sorry, but you area isn't supported."
> Instead it took me to http://www.eaccess.net/. I searched the first
> page they sent and was disappointed--not listed. Then I saw the link
> to "Tokyo Area." My area was on that list. (There was also an Osaka
> area list.)
>
> The Tokyo-area list of supported areas is at:
>
>      http://www.eaccess.net/en/service/area-tokyo.html
>
> I called eAccess and tried to apply through them, but they pushed me
> back to GOL. Got the application (only via fax???) and am on my way
> to throwing out my 56K modem. It looks like eAccess is also working
> with biglobe, rimnet, nifty, and ds networks.
>
> I got zilch for writing this, just happy I can finally connect to my
> server without paying NTT a fortune (and listen to NPR.org).
>
> Later,
> Rod
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