Oli Bayley
@ne.jp
| [Help] b-Flets in Tokyo - any advice on slow speeds?
Hello everyone, I'm new on here, so apologies if I have missed anything - I did search on this.
Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.
I just moved to a Hyper Family Type B flets course (100MB), with an ISP called "Toppa!" (Recommended by the NTT salesman) and I am very unhappy with the download and connection speeds that I am getting. 
I regularly download files of several GB in size, mainly online games purchased over the internet from the publisher. I had a 50MB ADSL plan with ODN and was getting max speeds of between 300 and 500 KB/S.
Using Hikari I have got a max of 1MB/S, but there is no stability at all at and the connection constantly fluctuates up and down between 1MB/S and about 200-400 KB/S, so it feels about the same speed as my old ADSL.(Using www.speedtest.net I have records of between 6MB/S and 65MB/S on download when connecting to the recommended server in Tokyo. I just outside Tokyo)
The plan is more expensive than my old one but I read about other people's Hikari speeds and it seems mine are awful. I expressly went with this to improve download speeds.
As I right to be disappointed? (or is this performance normal?) Do you have any recommendations to help me improve my speeds?
Thanks in advance for any help or comments.
Merry Christmas!
Oliver |
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ddrmanxbxfr
join:2007-05-10
Quebec
 ·Bell Sympatico
| Are you sure that your computer can support thoses speeds ? ( not an old 5 ~ 7 years old pc )
If no then this is not normal getting only between 6 and 65 mbps.I've got an friend that is with asahi-net and he is getting about 85 ~ 99 mbp/s and a much more stable line than adsl but he is living in an mansion so i can't say if this is the problem. |
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OliB
@ne.jp
| Thanks for the reply - much appreciated.
My computer could be the problem, of course, but I built it a few months ago and it is a quad core Intel chip Q6600 with 2 gigs of ram and Windows XP, so I don't think it could be called old!
(although of course computers are pretty much out of date the day you buy them!  )
I live in a apartment building so it could be just that the line is bad or someone else is a heavy user, but there are only 4 apartments...
I guess I am just out of luck!
Many thanks again for the reply - any other ideas anyone? Does distance from an exchange make any difference with Hikari (optical) service?
Cheers,
Oli |
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ddrmanxbxfr
join:2007-05-10
Quebec | Ok nice.Perfect for your pc.
Well hikari service is the same as flet's only the billing system varies.
I would recommand to call NTT so that they could solve this speed problem. |
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