Wow, you're such a geek!
I think i can connect with you! （笑い）
It's just that I dream of getting my iBook online in some cafe.... pity
it will never happen in Australia, not without costing a bomb!
Oh well it looks like I'm going to be in Japan anyway so who cares where
technology is at back here?!
On Sunday, February 3, 2002, at 12:56 PM, Justin Hall wrote:
>
> Thanks for the helpful links and feedback on the keitai cards. And
> thanks Sam for starting this thread! After a difficult signup and a
> serious computer failure, I'm online nearly all the time.
>
> In the morning, I read the initial mail about Air H from my hotel room
> in Morioka. After paying an enormous hotel dial-up bill for all my
> hours online, I was walking by an electronics store selling these
> devices. I volunteered to buy one, which seemed exciting to some of the
> folks in this provincial capital of Iwate-ken. With my beginner's
> Japanese and a lot of patience, I managed to find a gentleman to help me
> negociate the seemingly complicated sign-up procedure. He spent three
> hours on the phone to DDI, talking them through my tourist visa, my
> lacking a permanent residence, and having no Japanese bank account or
> Japanese credit card. I couldn't tell if he was helping them bend rules
> for me, or if it really didn't matter. But three hours was a long time
> to spend on one signup.
>
> After three hours, once the Air H card was slotted in and I could see
> nytimes.com, I felt very excited. I thanked him profusely, had my photo
> taken with him, and we exchanged business cards. It turns out he worked
> for DDI! I'm still not sure why he worked so hard to sign me up.
>
> http://www.links.net/daze/02/01/pix/airh-lg.jpg
>
> I bought one of the 128k models with the little antennae, perhaps it
> will start working fast in March? I signed up for Prin the default
> service provider, as Earthlink was not supported by the service.
>
> I went to Mister Donut and used the heck out of my new service, loving
> wireless. My Thinkpad X21 ran out of juice, I put it to sleep. When I
> tried to awake it, it was dead. Windows XP wouldn't boot into Safe Mode
> either. After months of seamless computing, it seems the installation
> of the Air H pushed my machine over the edge. I had to return from
> Akita to Tokyo to get Windows software to boot and fix my laptop!
>
> I erased the Air H drivers, and the drivers from my aborted installation
> of Windows 98 only drivers for J-Phone-USB cabling. Maybe there was a
> clash there - I clean installed the Air H drivers and now it's working
> without incident. Not particularly fast compared to all the broadband
> about, but it's definitely a great way to check email from anywhere so
> far. The connection control panel has some Japanese text it can't
> display in my English-language windows, and it continually purports to
> be connecting at 115k. I ran a web-based bandwidth meter from Mister
> Donut in Morioka and I was getting 26.7 kbps.
>
> Next week I'll leave Tokyo and head back into Akita's thick snow; I'll
> let you know how the reception is up there. There's so many ways to get
> online in the big city, this wireless technology matters most to me
> where I'm most isolated and cut off from the wonderful world of the web.
>
> Okay,
> Justin
>
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>
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