Re: [tlug] Japan Phone experts?

[kts <kts@example.com>]

Actually, decided to continue my Onesimcard.com account and add a US$15/yr Personal Extra Number for Japan (see .sig). Goodbye Softbank and old phone number and ¥8,000/mo bill. This sim identifies as +372 Estonia, but all 3 numbers EU/JP/US resolve to my phone wherever I may be. In a few hours I head to NRT to Singapore for a month, and purchased a US$20 30day/1gb data package which can be renewed when it expires. Not the cheapest, but no switching JP/Other SIMcards, and my company pays for it to keep me connected worldwide.

PS: when I return I plan to retire the ancient 8yr-old & power-hungry AMD 1090T hex-core debian server doing apache / SMB / Syncthing / PLEX 24/7. Idea is to move to a laptop Fujitsu Ultrabook/Lifebook UH75 with dual core and better power profile, with a UASP/USB3 4Tb for the plex and primary photo/video storage. That should cut 24/7 power usage a fair bit. I still like and use the Linux desktop 1090T, but only plan to power it up when a Passmark score of ~6,000 is necessary. The W10 i7 is already shutdown and rarely boots (simple mid-2012 13.3 MacBook Pro does daily duty). My BOINC stats doing SETI and Climate Change Prediction suffer, so my top-two overkill machines 14 cores will be gathering dust mostly, however my electricity bill and pocketbook will thank me.

Next step towards power-savings is to retire the NAS4Free 8Tb RAID 1+0 file server (also ancient, same generation mobo) AMD Phenom II 940 Black 4-core, and find a lower-powered Intel cpu/mobo/Platinum80 PSU combo. Still debating the options there, but my housemate is quite certain the electricity bill is much too high and all my mad scientist IT-man-caves doing. …she’s quite correct of course, hard to fight when they are right… And, hard to choose “less/budget/enough” when for 25 years of PC parts picking the mantra has been 1-2 step retreat from the bleeding edge price/performance line and power-efficiency was not a factor. Now it is.

Regards,

Kevin Sullivan

kts@example.com

JP: +81456702373
US: +17853184287
EU: +37254728541

On May 5, 2018, at 11:52, Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com> wrote:

On 2017-09-30 00:39 +0900 (Sat), kts wrote:

I may have that experience in 6 weeks… Hope to move from Softbank
with my number to another carrier, and (so far) Asahi-net is in the
lead.
...
By end of October I hope to be using their basic plan SIM.

So, Kevin, did you switch to Asahi-Net? How did it work out?

cjs
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