Re: [tlug] Provider Info

[Philipp Wollermann <philipp.wollermann@example.com>]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:18, CL <az.4tlug@example.com> wrote:
> Before I sign anything, does anyone have anything negative to say about
> Biglobe service?  Right now, I have no line speed or download limits,
> and we DO a lot of file exchanges on the family LAN so that is a major
> point for us (as well as one major reason GOL only has our e-mail
> accounts, now).  I know about AsahiNet but their pricing is not really
> competitive, nor are they fighting for contracts out here (although, to
> be fair, I just did their online estimate page and have not spoken to
> their sales people).

you may want to forget about AsahiNet, which I once thought of as a
nice and customer-friendly (and TLUG-sponsoring) provider, as they
throttle your connection down for ca. 24 hours to about 300 kbyte/sek
if you download too much (as in > 30 GB). However, I'm not quite sure
if there is any Japanese provider, that doesn't do that.

Here's their lovely explanation I got, after asking them why creating
a personal Ubuntu Oneiric mirror (around 80 - 90 GB, downloaded via a
single HTTP connection from a server at a Japanese university) for my
lab at home went so slow:

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 18:01, ASAHI Net <EAP-NET@example.com> wrote:
> If you are using the Internet for heavy downloading and our systems
> managing our network consider that it is placing a load on our
> network that is putting other users at a disadvantage, then it
> is possible for the systems to manage your traffic to allow other
> users a fair share of the resources available.

Yeah, sure, instead of letting me just download the stuff in 1,5 hours
over my 200 MBit/s Hikari connection, it's much better to waste
energy, time and nerves by forcing me to trickle-download the stuff at
300 - 400 kbyte/sek for 3 days straight.

Philipp