Internet in Lebanon - General Questions

samer · 2011-08-23T21:02:43+00:00

Questions about Internet in Lebanon will be gathered here. Other topics have grown so much that they have become unmaintainable. Please limit yourself to pos...

m0ei

Currently, I'm with IDM and I'm very happy with them these days.

6mb/s 60gb plan, 60-70ms ping on ADSL/G.DMT, last month consumption was round 500gb, and there's no fup.

I'll stick with them for the new plans if they keep the unlimited night traffic and don't fuck things up with the open speed thing.

Raficoo

So I just read in the news that there's a cabinet meeting set for the coming Wednesday, let's hope this is finally the one.

Adlouni

Raficoo wroteSo I just read in the news that there's a cabinet meeting set for the coming Wednesday, let's hope this is finally the one.

I am afraid to spend the rest of our lives hoping in this country! haha

ahmad-toutounji

Guys from where we can get vdsl2 modem/router?

gamer4life

AVOlio wrote At my end, i will try for one month the 200Gb plan, and limit the YouTube quality at say 480p like now, or 720p max and pay attention to the usage of the internet. And it kills me to do that, because why would i stick to watching 480p videos if i have the ability and speed to watch 1080p and 1440p videos! What a cruel world!

We can limit youtube to 480p for all devices with out everytime changing it? Please tell me how

I can't control my little brothers everytime, and 200Gbs is too low for how much time my family spends on youtube without caring about the quality. 480p should be fine for 10" tablet I think.

nuclearcat

make bandwidth limit on your router, this will limit same way as limited capacity of ADSL

gamer4life

nuclearcat wrotemake bandwidth limit on your router, this will limit same way as limited capacity of ADSL

No I only want to limit YouTube, I still want the extra gbs for downloading huge files.

Draguen

Guys, super bad news.
Turns out our beloved and obviously far seeing visionary decided that FTTH is useless, so it won't be implemented, instead they will and i quote "only renovate and modernise the existing system", instead of swapping the whole copper network by fiber.

https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1051545/jarrah-reoriente-la-modernisation-du-reseau-internet.html

As per his opinion based by years of expertise in Lalaland, our network can deliver a minimum of 25mb once modernised (based on copper?).

Frankly whenever a politician make a promise, divide by 5 the minimum to be expected

nuclearcat

gamer4life wrote
nuclearcat wrotemake bandwidth limit on your router, this will limit same way as limited capacity of ADSL
No I only want to limit YouTube, I still want the extra gbs for downloading huge files.

thats technically possible too, but a bit harder (ipset dnsmasq + firewall), it needs skills, but maybe if many users want, and can use openwrt - i will make solution

roudy5

Draguen wroteGuys, super bad news.
Turns out our beloved and obviously far seeing visionary decided that FTTH is useless, so it won't be implemented, instead they will and i quote "only renovate and modernise the existing system", instead of swapping the whole copper network by fiber.

https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1051545/jarrah-reoriente-la-modernisation-du-reseau-internet.html

As per his opinion based by years of expertise in Lalaland, our network can deliver a minimum of 25mb once modernised (based on copper?).

Frankly whenever a politician make a promise, divide by 5 the minimum to be expected

Yea of course who needs fiber when we have copper ? man i just want to know how do they think?? well then we are stuck to a max of 25 mbps, as he said 25 mbps is "enough" for home internet..

ahmad-toutounji

they are doing fttc all over the country for a minimum speed of 50mbps so we're not stuck to 25mbps

kfc

Draguen wroteGuys, super bad news.
Turns out our beloved and obviously far seeing visionary decided that FTTH is useless, so it won't be implemented, instead they will and i quote "only renovate and modernise the existing system", instead of swapping the whole copper network by fiber.

https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1051545/jarrah-reoriente-la-modernisation-du-reseau-internet.html

As per his opinion based by years of expertise in Lalaland, our network can deliver a minimum of 25mb once modernised (based on copper?).

Frankly whenever a politician make a promise, divide by 5 the minimum to be expected

Imad Kreidieh said that they will do fiber to the cabinet to everyone but fiber to the home for everyone is very costly.

ManOwaRR

kfc wrote
Draguen wroteGuys, super bad news.
Turns out our beloved and obviously far seeing visionary decided that FTTH is useless, so it won't be implemented, instead they will and i quote "only renovate and modernise the existing system", instead of swapping the whole copper network by fiber.

https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1051545/jarrah-reoriente-la-modernisation-du-reseau-internet.html

As per his opinion based by years of expertise in Lalaland, our network can deliver a minimum of 25mb once modernised (based on copper?).

Frankly whenever a politician make a promise, divide by 5 the minimum to be expected
Imad Kreidieh said that they will do fiber to the cabinet to everyone but fiber to the home for everyone is very costly.

I hope mr imad has a word in this

As far as i see it we are very very very far from having fiber connection , maybe our children will enjoy it , thats how far we are

AVOlio

gamer4life wrote
AVOlio wrote At my end, i will try for one month the 200Gb plan, and limit the YouTube quality at say 480p like now, or 720p max and pay attention to the usage of the internet. And it kills me to do that, because why would i stick to watching 480p videos if i have the ability and speed to watch 1080p and 1440p videos! What a cruel world!
We can limit youtube to 480p for all devices with out everytime changing it? Please tell me how

I can't control my little brothers everytime, and 200Gbs is too low for how much time my family spends on youtube without caring about the quality. 480p should be fine for 10" tablet I think.

There was a firefox/chrome add on that used to set the video resolution to whatever you choose. I forgot what it was, since I stopped using it after subscribing to unlimited plan.

xazbrat

Draguen wroteGuys, super bad news.
Turns out our beloved and obviously far seeing visionary decided that FTTH is useless, so it won't be implemented, instead they will and i quote "only renovate and modernise the existing system", instead of swapping the whole copper network by fiber.

https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1051545/jarrah-reoriente-la-modernisation-du-reseau-internet.html

As per his opinion based by years of expertise in Lalaland, our network can deliver a minimum of 25mb once modernised (based on copper?).

Frankly whenever a politician make a promise, divide by 5 the minimum to be expected

Just keep in mind that this politician has said a few things which have proven to be incorrect later on, so take what he says with a grain of salt.

eWizzard

EzikMezik wroteUnlimited nights my arse, prepare to get smashed by the FUP hammer.

andrew55

I wonder if all COs will have the "speed unleashed". I am not aware that all COs are equiped to handle such bandwidth. Maybe just COs in the large cities? Something to think about if the new packages are made official this Wednesday...

infiniteloop

kfc wrote
Draguen wroteGuys, super bad news.
Turns out our beloved and obviously far seeing visionary decided that FTTH is useless, so it won't be implemented, instead they will and i quote "only renovate and modernise the existing system", instead of swapping the whole copper network by fiber.

https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1051545/jarrah-reoriente-la-modernisation-du-reseau-internet.html

As per his opinion based by years of expertise in Lalaland, our network can deliver a minimum of 25mb once modernised (based on copper?).

Frankly whenever a politician make a promise, divide by 5 the minimum to be expected
Imad Kreidieh said that they will do fiber to the cabinet to everyone but fiber to the home for everyone is very costly.

Another excuse to promote privatization of telephony and internet in this country, if they let private isp do the work then unleash a real competition between them we will all be wining, the isp will make lot of money and we will get faster and faster internet (while keeping prices low) . Tech evolution for the mass shouldn't be controlled by politics, these people give billions of $ for useless concerts (Byblos,Jounieh,...) but when it's for internet they suddenly don't have a penny

nuclearcat

I am not sure it is good idea.
I believe ogero and private ISPs should co-exist, but this subject require balance finetuning.

EzikMezik

eWizzard wrote
EzikMezik wroteUnlimited nights my arse, prepare to get smashed by the FUP hammer.
http://i64.tinypic.com/33nutu0.jpg

oh my, this is genius xD
Well at least there's Solaire (obligatory praise the sun [T]/) to help you with that fight in the game, in real life we're alone to the mercy of the evil ISPs.

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