jeansalim wroteVISP, you are being childish and ridiculous. I don't know about the practices of your ISP, but I at least have integrity.
When the network is full fiber, from the home to the ISP, from the ISP to Ogero and from Ogero to the speedtest server (Wise), you will get 4ms latency. You won't see those numbers using mikrotik and when you load balance your bandwidth between 10 shitty providors like Walid 7weis and when your Bandwidth is constantly congested because you overloaded it with subscribers.
Well, i was curious how clever will be answer. But as i expected, i got only insult.
Then i will answer appropriately, with same tone:
1)First of all i am not VISP, i am on my own behalf here, for lebgeeks i'm Denys. If it matters, i am supporting more than 10 legal providers in Lebanon, in technical matters. And one thing i am not using - mikrotik. And i do exactly how much customer paid, i will do my job as possible perfect, but if ISP decide to do "sharing" ratio terrible - it is his business decision. Some of them has nice internet, some are terrible.
2)About Walid 7weis, i barely know him, just seen several times, and i know his network is terrible, and yes, he use mikrotiks a lot. But seems he is your competitor, and i know you might face hard times with him, because his strategy is "dirt cheap shitty internet". And most of people is OK to buy it, just because it is $1 cheaper.
3)FTTH is nice, but not feasible with current conditions in Lebanon. You need trained technicians, proper cabling channels to roll it on large scale. Trained technicians, well, i know too much well, how majority of ISP workers handle stuff, and something i will not give in their hands - it is fiber splicer. I am not talking, that all splicing need to be checked after them with reflectometer, to meet link budget. Fiber it is thing that works nice for show off, but when you lay network to all nodes, quality of splicing will matter a lot.
Now cabling channels, that are nonexistent in buildings in Lebanon, with FTTH it means anyone who damaged cable entering (often hanging somewhere) house, you can't just ask nearby shop to crimp for you new cable, this means your technician will have to go and splice it. The more calls, more such guys and splicers you need. And remember, in PON each splicing will cut more and more your link budget due loss. So at the end, if your cable can't stay intact for long time, it will become very expensive to maintain.
And even if we don't talk "building", you can't lay it underground, you will have to lay on poles or somewhere else. And, each accident on road, they hit poles and break your fiber. Or some crane might break your fiber as well, and he will not give a shit about that. Remember, trained, accurate (and highly paid) guy, with quite expensive splicer will have to go, climb poles, day and night, and restore link. It is all just because telecom cabling is not protected by law and doesn't have any rules, how it can be laid by private entities.
And more sad thing, even if you have OK from municipality, you need to have DSP license. As soon as you lay it down enough large network, MoT will come and screw your network, because you don't have right to own your own distribution network without DSP license. This is sad reality and experience too, so if you didn't took care about that, watch your competitors, they might tip MoT about your network. Another thing, importing networking equipment also difficult matter. One day, if i am not wrong Imad Tarabai started to fight with MoT about 3G and etc. Well, all he got, stuck modems in customs, that he was unable to get out for very long time. Thats add additional risk on rolling any technology that is not enough widespread in Lebanon. You might be shipped them in small quantities, but when it comes to large amounts, it will be harder.
4)Congested bandwidth it is another matter. If you are going to make money, it is unavoidable at current moment. Price from Ogero are $100-$150/Mbps if i am not wrong (lazy to ask customers, i am not in financial side of this business). Price of average account is $20. Major expenses even not a bandwidth, but a mess in everything (electricity, as i said above licenses, cabling path). This means just in most perfect case, that your customers sitting in same building as you, you will share 1Mbit with 5 customers. Just 256k for each.
And now, add salaries, license cost, "unofficial costs", ishtirak cost, distribution network cost, and you will end up with 128k-64k per customer. So let me see speed in your network, when you will be able to make some profit.