On 10 Mar 2004 18:08:02 -0800, tokyoelbow@totalise.co.uk (Elbow)
wrote:

>Allo,
>I just finished a trial with YahooBB and now would like to change to a
>different provider based on that yahooBB is run by a bunch of
>fuckwits.
>Its a long story so I wont bore you with it.

I've had my own nightmare experiences with YahooBB in the past. I
moved houses in the same dan-chi and did NOT change my phone number
but I made the mistake of politely informing them of the move. This
turned out to be a HUGE mistake as they went right ahead and cancelled
my account and told me I had to reapply. This was right before New
Year's holidays a few years ago and I ended up being off the net for
about 6 weeks until I could get my cable service installed.

YahooBB? NEVER again! They suck donkey balls and their service in any
language is laughable not to mention their policy of allowing customer
data to be stolen and distributed.

>Im after a fast connection , possibly fibre optic if anyone thinks its
>worth it or not.

I went with B-Flets fiber optic just as soon as NTT started their
no-fee construction campaign. I don't know if that is still continuing
but there was no way I was going to pay the 27,000 yen or so they
charged for construction prior to that.

>Something with English support (YahooBB doesnt have a single person in
>their building who speak any English so they told my wife, There was
>me thinking YahooBB out of all of the providers would def have some
>English support).

With all due respect to the Global Online employees in this newsgroup
I signed up with Asahi-Net (http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/en/) and have
not had one single complaint. Not only do they have full English
service and support they are the cheapest provider I could find. I've
subscribed to GOL in the past as well (back in the IDSN days) and they
were also excellent.

>Usernet would be nice but not high priority.

No binary newsgroups with Asahi but for text-based groups like this
Asahi has servers. I use subscription servers based in the USA for
binaries anyway.

>Basically the faster the better.

B-Flets is plenty fast for me.

>As I said I have had Yahoobb for a while so Im assuming all the
>plumbing is in place.
>Would it be fairly simple to get connected (ADSL) to another provider?
>Does fibre optic have a large installation fee?

Yahoo BB ADSL and B-Flets ADSL are totally different animals. If you
go with B-Flets you are going to require construction. You should
contact NTT and check it out.

Raj