The Story of the Cho: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
Advice for Off-Base Non Military Housing

I've been living in my apartment since March.  I love the view, I love how roomy it is, hell I even love the garage keeper when I greet him in the afternoons to park my car in the big wheel garage next to the building.  The problem......the internet.

I recently talked with GODO, NTT, GIBILLPAY, etc about the issue, the internet is just too slow.  Its a 48mb plan but I'm only getting 4mb.....maybe 5 if that on ADSL.  Which makes for very very horrible gaming, especially for games that are demanding in bandwidth.  I asked to get cable internet but they have to install a seperate line?  I dont know why they cant just run the internet through my cable line thats provided for by the apartment like they did in the states.  What it all finally boils down to is, GODO stated the line or "cable way" was already full and that installation is impossible.

All I wanted was a simple answer, the question being "When are they going to upgrade?  Are you planning to provide an extra cableway so the other floors could benefit from the upgrade?"  This however, was impossible to get and I gave up in utter frustration and my outlook of Japan has become rather...well...less than what it was before...alot less.

An idea for the Cho wall and I am dead serious on this one is the cable service options for each apartment/cho/town house for internet.  Internet is what makes the world turn these days.  It alone gives the power of information at our fingertips, the ability to call home, watch movies, play games etc.  If this option was available it would help in the selection and final leasing of a place of residence instead of going by "word of mouth" by the retailer.  This is what got me in the end, stuck in an apartment that has internet issues when I would have avoided it.  A simple layout like

Cable Internet: Y/N
Fiberoptic Internet: Y/N
ADSL: Y/N