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#576 January 5 2014

djunited
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

john wrote:
djunited wrote:

On december 22 i upgraded my ogero connection from 2mbps to 4mbps. I was told the new connection will take affect on the first of the following month. Logging into my ogero account i can see that my connection is now 4mbps but the speeds im am getting reflect a 2mbps connection? Should i give them a call or it will upgrade eventually?

I think it takes about +/-1 week from the start of the month.

I hope so. Guess i'll wait. Thanks

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#577 January 20 2014

insane
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

I used to play Battlefield 4 daily on PS4 and my ping was good, with 3~4/5 bars.

Lately, (Last 3 days) all serves have 1 bar, and I have huge lag inside the game.

I just checked my ping to Google and it was around 350 ms.

Any one having bad ping on Cyberia or only me?

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#578 January 20 2014

nosense
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

I have a very stable ping ~65 all the time but I recall having lags on battlefield 4 some days ago I just exited and never player since (I don't play it much) so Ping was High in game and normal outside

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#579 January 20 2014

Hybrid
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

Ping statistics for 74.125.132.104:
    Packets: Sent = 39, Received = 39, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 90ms, Maximum = 104ms, Average = 91ms

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#580 January 21 2014

samer
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

*Cyberia latency question moved here*

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#581 January 21 2014

nosense
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

samer wrote:

*Cyberia latency question moved here*

Why don't you make Feedback for Cyberia a sticky like other providers ? better than multiple topics

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#582 January 21 2014

samer
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

Good point, thank you Ali. Done!

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#583 February 21 2014

m_zeid
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

Anyone have a clue about SOHO? prices? speeds? latency? other things like static/dynamic NAT/public IP?

any info is really appreciated

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#584 February 22 2014

Gamer
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

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#585 February 22 2014

m_zeid
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

kidding right?

never checked terra's website, just wise and idm and thought maybe they still didn't update corporate pages after the upgrade we got from IMEWE.

But it seems true, so why it's costy like that? just for the unlimited traffic? or the pings are terrific?
and is it really unlimited or FUP is applied?

I hope that someone actually experienced SOHO to give us a feedback. and any other info is always welcomed.

Thanks Gamer for the link :)

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#586 February 22 2014

Hybrid
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

I know for a fact that the 1mbps is for $300 from wise... there is no FUP, no limits and it's purely dedicated, that is you get the 1mbps download speed any time of the day. I don't remember how fast the upload was, but I remember i tried it on gaming and it worked well, latency around 130ms to Germany.

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#587 February 22 2014

m_zeid
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

Hybrid wrote:

I know for a fact that the 1mbps is for $300 from wise... there is no FUP, no limits and it's purely dedicated, that is you get the 1mbps download speed any time of the day. I don't remember how fast the upload was, but I remember i tried it on gaming and it worked well, latency around 130ms to Germany.

Oh dear :(
it's good that it's unlimited and dedicated, but high tariff and the latency kills it.
Currently i'm searching about load balancing connections, and have this in mind 4M25 adsl plan with 1M-unlimited from sodetel.
When things get real i'll open a thread and let you know.

Shame how SOHO connections are costly...

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#588 April 17 2014

xterm
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

Recently had an email exchange with IT Director of Ogero, Dr. Toufic chebaro about available options for corporations; (All of the below through HDSL)

Symmetric 2Mbs: 225,000 L.L and a quota of 40GB per month
Symmetric 4Mbs: 450,000 L.L and a quota of 80GB per month
Symmetric 8Mbs: 900,000 L.L and a quota of 160GB per month

I honestly never knew the options over 2Mbps existed. He did however throw a little gem in the email and I quote:

Note that those tariffs will be largely reduced in the very near future.

Fingers crossed.

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#589 August 1 2014

Ahmad Toutounji
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

is 3g(touch) or dsl(ogero) is better for online gaming? for example call of duty ghosts, i live in ras beirut

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#590 August 1 2014

trent
Member

Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

Ahmad Toutounji wrote:

is 3g(touch) or dsl(ogero) is better for online gaming? for example call of duty ghosts, i live in ras beirut

I wouldn't trust 3G for ping stability. Congestion, signal interference all can cause variation (jitter) in latency.

I just tested it on my phone using a pinging app, touch 3G is slightly higher latency (20-30ms) than Ogero DSL and I noticed a couple of pings that shot to 600ms. Although I wouldn't trust those apps too much on a phone since power management and other parts of the phone's OS might interfere with the testing. A dedicated 3G modem will likely perform better.

I am in Hamra, the surrounding cell towers are in clear sight unobstructed, so my signal is nearly perfect. And yet I find my phone sometimes switching back and forth between H and H+ which can also add to jitter.

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#591 August 1 2014

trent
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

Guess I'm bored did some further testing :)

USB Tethered my phone for better accuracy. Signal stats on phone [-73dbm . 20asu]. Without moving the phone I did 2 consecutive ping tests, for the second one the phone decided to switch down from HSPA+ to HSPA

Touch 3G HSPA+
C:\Users\K>ping bbc.co.uk -n 10

Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.20] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=158ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=127ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=126ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=125ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=122ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=121ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=139ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=147ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=134ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=132ms TTL=46

Ping statistics for 212.58.244.20:
    Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 121ms, Maximum = 158ms, Average = 133ms

Touch 3G HSPA
C:\Users\K>ping bbc.co.uk -n 10

Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.20] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=250ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=289ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=261ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=316ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=424ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=364ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=260ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=302ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=256ms TTL=46
Reply from 212.58.244.20: bytes=32 time=323ms TTL=46

Ping statistics for 212.58.244.20:
    Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 250ms, Maximum = 424ms, Average = 304ms

Ogero DSL
C:\Users\K>ping bbc.co.uk -n 10

Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.246.103] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.246.103: bytes=32 time=114ms TTL=48
Reply from 212.58.246.103: bytes=32 time=105ms TTL=48
Reply from 212.58.246.103: bytes=32 time=117ms TTL=48
Reply from 212.58.246.103: bytes=32 time=121ms TTL=48
Reply from 212.58.246.103: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=48
Reply from 212.58.246.103: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=48
Reply from 212.58.246.103: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=48
Reply from 212.58.246.103: bytes=32 time=98ms TTL=48
Reply from 212.58.246.103: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=48
Reply from 212.58.246.103: bytes=32 time=97ms TTL=48

Ping statistics for 212.58.246.103:
    Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 97ms, Maximum = 121ms, Average = 106ms

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#592 September 10 2014

hussam
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

An interesting article.

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#593 September 10 2014

Adnan
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

Congratulations Lebanon for passing the 3Mbps mark ! Woo ! Just 90Mbps left and we're first.

http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/

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#594 September 10 2014

hussam
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

Wow. UAE has 28Mbits per second.

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#595 September 10 2014

Red7
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

When you see that countries like Iraq, Afghanistan or Palestine have better internet connections than us, you can guess how far from being a developped country we are. And we have such a high opinion of ourselves as peoples.

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#596 September 10 2014

Raficoo
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

Red7 wrote:

When you see that countries like Iraq, Afghanistan or Palestine have better internet connections than us, you can guess how far from being a developped country we are. And we have such a high opinion of ourselves as peoples.

The only way we'll really move forward is Fiber optics and more bandwidth, or if they at the very least replace old obsolete copper wire with new ones that can support VDSL at the very least, but given the prices involved, the size of the country, and future of networking, I'd say they better move forward with fiber optics and forget about copper.

Last edited by Raficoo (September 10 2014)

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#597 September 10 2014

Adnan
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

Red7 wrote:

When you see that countries like Iraq, Afghanistan or Palestine have better internet connections than us, you can guess how far from being a developped country we are. And we have such a high opinion of ourselves as peoples.

I think you should also take into consideration the amount of users and the penetration rate.
Have a look at this Wikipedia article, which takes most of its sourcing from ITU.
You could also say that the statistics are so two years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c … rnet_users

Lebanon: 61.2% of the population has access to the internet.
Iraq: 7.1%
Afghanistan: 5.5%

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#598 September 10 2014

rolf
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

The choices that we have in Lebanon aren't that great. When you compare to European capitals like Paris, Berlin, London, it may look like they have it better, and to some extent it is true, but in practice, a sizeable part of the users live in shared flats, and the internet would be installed by the landlord. Often the cheapest plan they could get and frankly crap, more often then not.
It used to be that they had much advance, and when DSL was publicly available, about 10 years ago, Lebanon was still struggling with over-priced, over-shared bandwidth and satellite links. Dial-up was still sometimes used. Now Lebanon has done some real progress, and although it is still more expensive and has less options for really fast connection, the gap has closed a lot, because, in the meantime, not much progress was done in Europe. OK you have places where you can get fiber-optic, and ADSL now has a theoretical maximum of 25mbps if not more, but in practice the quality of the connection is not much better then in Lebanon, and the standard download speed when everything is working well is around 500KB/s.

It also varies depending on the city, and if you can afford your own place you can also choose your connection and get a much better one, it also depends what you're after, if you're after gaming then it's going to be very difficult to find good latency in Lebanon.

But anyway the point I was trying to make is that the gap is much smaller now.

Last edited by rolf (September 10 2014)

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#599 September 16 2014

julesb91
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

hey guys, can you give me some of your opinions about which isp is the most stable and provides good latencies.

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#600 September 16 2014

Raficoo
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Re: Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

julesb91 wrote:

hey guys, can you give me some of your opinions about which isp is the most stable and provides good latencies.

From my experience I can say Ogero provides one of the most(if not the top) stable connections.. In terms of latency, Ogero's latency is good(90-120ms) in games but I've heard other ISPs provide a ping just as good or even better but stability wise Ogero is one of the top.

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