kuri wrote:
> "Elbow" <tokyoelbow@totalise.co.uk> wrote in message
> 
>>I have a friend who hasnt got a phone line.
>>What options does she have in getting an internet connection.
>>The apartment is about 10yrs old.
> 
> 
> I live in a ruin too. They'll never install the hikari fiber or even the
> ADSL here*, zero percent of my neighbours are interested in a cable TV
> deal... so till I move,  I've taken a wireless USB gadget. The speed
> compares to only other option, which was ISDN, but you don't have to deal
> with NTT, get a TA or anything. You can use anywhere in urban Japan with
> your laptop.

Yeah, me too ... except mine is a PCMIA card that slots into my laptop. 
  I have a tsunagi hodai account from DDI Pocket and I just log on from 
wherever I am whenever I'm bored.  My wife won't let me bring the laptop 
into the bedroom though.  Speed is equivalent to ISDN when the 
connection is good.  Sometimes you have to spin around in your chair 
until your antenna gets properly aligned, though.

CL