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Text Rest of your article	> Best depends on what you are looking for. > > Are you looking for the best price? Or highest > bandwidth? Or reliability? Do you need a static > IP address (so that you can host your own > servers)? Does best include customer support? > Do you want support in English or is Japanese OK? > Is the pipe to the Internet all you care about, > or do you want other services, like email, web > pages hosting? > > What I did to choose my ISP was answer all these > questions for myself, then bought a magazine > that lists all Japanese ISPs: Internet Magazine. > (I don't think you can find it in convinience > stores, but it's available in book stores). > > Note that Internet Magazine publishes a very cool > and updated map of the Japanese Internet. It used > to be a big poster, and looked really cool on an office wall. Unfortunately, now it's on a CD in > PDF format, which is much less usable, and much > less cool... but still very usefull to choose > your ISP: if you are looking for bandwidth, you > can just see how well an ISP is connected to > the rest of the Internet. So you can realize > that that unbelievably cheap ISP is just > connected to the net by one tiny link. Also > bad for reliability: if that link goes down, > your connection may be down for days before > they can fix it! On the other hand, you will > find some ISPs that are connected to the > rest of the Internet through multiple fat > pipes. If you want reliability and bandwidth, > go for one of these. But they are a bit more > expensive... > > So, if you tell us what you are looking for, > maybe we can give you more precise > recommendations.
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