bahaa-k
I have a friend who lives in a hotel, he has internet but his pings are not stable; is it possible to get his own internet ? If yes, how and who provides it, and the price as well ?
Raficoo
I find this info relevant to the topic of internet in Lebanon
In case you don't know what's the picture about, Nicoloas Sehanoui is the Telecommunications minister in Lebanon, and this was one of his replies when when he answering some questions in another forum.
That post dates Feb 21
amkahal
Raficoo wroteI find this info relevant to the topic of internet in Lebanon
http://i56.tinypic.com/359mion.jpg
In case you don't know what's the picture about, Nicoloas Sehanoui is the Telecommunications minister in Lebanon, and this was one of his replies when when he answering some questions in another forum.
That post dates Feb 21
Minister is talking about fiber between COs since long time, so let's hope it was finished, because no such speeds before completion of fiber project. Plus, Even the fiber project is done, it depends on Local CO capacity that can holds.
Adnan
I have some non-professional questions to ask, because I've been wondering about it for a long time:
Why is there absolutely no competition between ISPs ? Why do they wait or do they have to wait until Ogero takes a step forward so that they do / are allowed to do the same ?
Are they just being lazy ? Or are they satisfied and don't care ? Politics ? Monopolies ?
My instinct tells it's some monopolizing business. Does anyone know if that's to be stopped one day so that ISPs can really compete ?
babum
They all rely on Ogero to provide for bandwidth which itself is a monopolistic company. Now I am cannot say if they are not allowed to compete between each others or not, but think about it, any real competition they can have will be based on price and starting a price war wouldn't be really wise. It is easier to just sit and wait, though I could be mistaken.
hussam
Relying on ogero for bandwidth is a good thing. it means a stable backbone and more importantly a standaralized one where all lebanese people have the same route to (for example) google.com.
Ogero is not the problem. The problem is that ISPs are too damn greedy and they throttle people because ogero charges each ISP according to it's total monthly bandwidth consumption.
babum
hussam wroteRelying on ogero for bandwidth is a good thing. it means a stable backbone and more importantly a standaralized one where all lebanese people have the same route to (for example) google.com.
Ogero is not the problem. The problem is that ISPs are too damn greedy and they throttle people because ogero charges each ISP according to it's total monthly bandwidth consumption.
And do you think Ogero charges cheap?
Probably not and probably why ISP's go through all means to sell us this mediocre service.
hussam
babum wrotehussam wroteRelying on ogero for bandwidth is a good thing. it means a stable backbone and more importantly a standaralized one where all lebanese people have the same route to (for example) google.com.
Ogero is not the problem. The problem is that ISPs are too damn greedy and they throttle people because ogero charges each ISP according to it's total monthly bandwidth consumption.
And do you think Ogero charges cheap?
Probably not and probably why ISP's go through all means to sell us this mediocre service.
Yes, it is cheaper than the satellite backbones.
samer
It would be interesting if you could post exact numbers (backed up by good sources) as to what it costs ISPs to buy bandwidth from Ogero VS satellite providers.
hussam
There was one in the VISP thread once where nuclearcat said that ogero prices were good compared to satellite prices but the distributed capacity was not enough.
chosen2k
Random question: What about Ping?
There was no improvement in Ping (at least for me) even after the new speeds and bandwidth.
samer
chosen2k wroteRandom question: What about Ping?
There was no improvement in Ping (at least for me) even after the new speeds and bandwidth.
Make sure that your ISP is not putting you on a satellite route. If you are on a land route, Latency should be reduced if we get the redundant capacity through the Alexandros submarine cable, as mentioned
here.
Adnan
Is there any effective way to know if we're routed via satellite or land ? I think it is possible to so by pinging, whereas high pings would indicate a satellite route, in most cases. Is that accurate ?
amkahal
Αντνάν wroteIs there any effective way to know if we're routed via satellite or land ? I think it is possible to so by pinging, whereas high pings would indicate a satellite route, in most cases. Is that accurate ?
when latency is high, so it is a sign of being routed via satellite, but when the latency is low, then it's not necessary routed via fiber, because maybe the ISP routes ICMP only via Fiber. i think the best thing you can do is http-ping.
aa5tech
hello guys, me and my neighbor got newly OGERO DSL internet.
In the first 2 weeks we were able to access the modem/router to change the router's password, now we cannot do it, and we have to call the 1515 every time we need to do so.
In addition, we tired to put a router on the modem to extend the range because the thomson mode/router has a very short range.
Is there anything that allow us to access the thomson mode/router again? Or is it possible to use our router to work with the Ogero router?
Thank you
sailor
hello friends
Im mobi user since 2009 and it was always a pain since i cant get dsl because of old landline bill
finally i paid it and today i got the 01 line , my question is what provider i should get
to be honest i dont like ogero because the internet bill it attached to the phone bill
i checked idm website and i found that they have the 2mb plan with 10 GB for 35$
my question is why only the idm have this plan (others have the 2mb with 20gb for 50$)
and is it good choice to get idm
Adnan
Sodetel has a same 2mbps / 10GB plan, for 33$ VAT included, you can consider it too. But I think IDM is better than Sodetel.
amkahal
go for ogero. they route traffic via fiber all the time.
sailor
ogero have the 2mb with 20GB for 50$
since all offer free night quota the idm 2mb with 10gb will be better for me
but i no nothing about idm for this am asking u guys
Opeth
So I moved to bshemoon recently and subscribed to a local internet provider (cable, why god ? why ?), it was fine at first but now I can't do shit and don't get pings below 200, everytime I call I get the usual "hala2 bsheflak shu fi" crap :P I would install DSL but I don't have 01 and my dad refuses to get it (we have no use for a home number) any alternate methods for acceptable net ? can't seem to find anything.