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Setting up hikari fiber optic internet in Japan
I recently got a Hikari Fiber connection from NTT Flets broadband provider and to be honest I wasn’t totally impressed to begin with. Sure the webpages loaded a little faster but I couldn’t really see much difference in my broadband internet.
However, as I’ve used it more and more I’ve come to appreciate how fast it really is. With P2P it’s possible to get 1Mb a second which makes me worried for my HDD!
Anyways, here are a couple of tips about getting Hikari installed from NTT broadband ISP and up and running. It’s a little different from ADSL in terms of routers etc so…
1) Once the ISP people have been to your pad and installed the service you’ll get two boxes connecting the service to your LAN - one is a small white box, the other is a big white box! I’ve no idea what the small one does but the big one is the CTU unit (I think) and this is your new router/firewall.
2) My CTU has four LAN ports from which I can daisychain more routers (but my firewall/router combo didn’t seem to work with this so I had to use a plain router - perhaps something to do with the firewall).
3) Now here is the mindbender. To get my service going I had to install a bit of software which took me to a website and there I had to enter my ISP username and password to activate the account for Hikari.
Once this was authenticated I was then taken to another website on the flets VPN where I could configure the router. That’s right! You can’t access your CTU router via a 168.192.1.1 IP anymore - it has to be configured through the ISP website!
Anyways, this blew my mind and I spent a lot of time trying to decode the Japanese instructions and get my head round the fact that I couldn’t access the router locally (and if you have a powercut you have to access the CTU website and reset the bloody thing!).
Anyways, eventually I managed to get it going and after pushing a couple of wrong buttons (completely cutting off the connection!!) it was working fine.
But, what about opening and forwarding ports? Well, this also has to be done via the CTU website, there is a page which has all the DNS server and port info so I managed to add the ports I wanted forwarding but strangely nothing happened until I pushed the fart button and updated the router!
From this I infer that you make changes to your account stored in a database, and only when you commit changes does that info get sent to the router (maybe your CTU box, maybe the ISP’s - dunno!).
4) After that everything was great and I’m now enjoying mental connection speeds.
Hope that helps save you some time and enjoy the internet the way it was meant to be!
Here are a couple of links in English to help you out.
Softbank Telecom Hikari Fiber service
TECPO and related Asahi Net Inc.
Yahoo B.B. (English Site)
BBapply is an English application website for Yahoo!BB