SoftBank non speed and non service

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Well, the saga of SoftBank continues. I put my IT skills to use and did some background checking on their backbone. They have none. I found their servers frequently being hopped, never standing still. Pushing for the names of these they turned out to be owned by KDDI, other local providers or even some obscure Korean outfit. SagiBank themselves seems to only own 2 stations, one in Tokyo the other in Nagoya (which is never "on to the public). Oh.. and one in Okinawa that doesn't seem to belong to them but I can't tell for sure. Anyway, it usually times out...

I guess they're using some ingenious, dynamic push-pull software to provide just-in-time service and are flexibly renting off excess capacity over other's networks. Which means you get cr@p service in reality. They're always johnny-left-standing in the musical chairs of bandwidth priority being some sort of hyena customer feeding on whatever crud latency other providers have. I wonder how that plays out legally. Can they call themselves an ISP without any serious self-owned backup ability in the face of a disaster? I suppose they've made sure to technically comply with a dusty Buffalo router in Masayoshi Son's basement but I'd hate to see it put to the test.

My router broke down the other week and I went to their store. It was usually packed but this particular Saturday it was empty. I was directed to another store 2 stops away to deliver my phone. Also empty except for some small-business woman shouting at them about something for a solid 10 minutes. I got an exchange unit, went back 2 days later and again.. empty. Sell your Softbank stock kids.


I'm dumping them 1 year into a 2 year contract. They'll keep the remainder of the 59,000 yen I paid them and are trying to zing me for another 9000 yen for "breaching" my contract despite the reason for leaving being their appalling service. I'll be lucky if they don't spit in my face and chant "Na na na naaah, hey hey hey Goodbye!" as I leave their office.