dsl is going to be limited !!

hj88

i have read in the "assafir" newspaper (may 23 ) the price list of the dsl :

128/32 (2gb limit) 256/64 (3gb limit) 512/128(4gb limit) 1024/256(5gb) hdsl(up to 2.3Mbps)(8gb
home 35000 50000 70000 115000 300000

companies 45000 65000 85000 135000 300000

educational institutions 30000 40000 60000 100000 240000

and 500 LL for eatch additional 10 mb!! and the limit is in both ways which means up+down = the limit

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http://www.assafir.com/iso/oldissues/20060523/pdf/finance.pdf

mahdoum

:S That sux, that means around $34 for each extra GB noo.. does hdsl have no limit?

teodorgeorgiev

Mahdoum,

since 6 months I am explaining it here: the LAYER 1 media CONNECTIVITY SPEED does NOT MEAN Internet speed.

If they put Gigabit fiber link to your house this does not mean that they will give you Gigabit speed to the Internet (the worldwide network).

You will have 1Gbps to the ISP, but not to the Internet.

If they install ADSL2+ specially dedicated for you, then in the very best case you will have 1Mbps up / 22Mbps down (forget the 1.2/24).
But this speed is the speed between you and the DSLAM (and the ISP of course).

The HDSL has limit, of 2-4Mbps let say.

For God sake. Is that me such an idiot, that I am not able to explain this for so many months ???????????????????????????????????????

Damn it... get it here as much easier example:

You have a 5 litres bottle. Your neighbour has a 10 litres mega-bottle. Each of you goes daily to the free-shop to take mineral water for drinking. The goverment has limited amount of water, so they allow only 0.7 litres per day per person. Having a 5 litres bottle and coming
with a 5 litres bottle to the free-shop does not mean that they will feel it to the top and let you go home. Neither does it mean that your neighbour with the 10 litres mega-bottle will take more mineral spring water than you. Kapeesh ?

So, the DSL has one sort of limits, the Internet you will get over this DSL link has QUITE DIFFERENT LIMITS.

mahdoum

teodorgeorgiev I understood your posts when you explained the concept before ;) Nice anecdote though.

I was enquiring about the bandwidth per month limit, and not the upload/download speed limit.

hj88

hello teodorgeorgiev

mandoum actually asked me the gb limit and i edited my post to add the 8 gb limit for the hdsl and you saw his reply after i edited my post...
i guess this is the reason of the misunderstanding

rolf

Are these the final prices?
Enno 1024/256(5gb) at 115000 ll / month are amazing... compared to the current prices.
When will they start rolling out?

lcube

amazing? what about the limit

rolf

lcube wroteamazing? what about the limit

Enno 1024/256(5gb) at 115000... at the same price nowadays you can get about 128/32

5gb sucks it's the size of one fedora linux download... but maybe there are other deals.

See it this way:
today if I want to have more then 32 up I can get a dedicated connection 64 up 256 down at say maybe $ 300 and that is a VERY good deal.

that's 450 000 LL
at that price with dsl I could get 4 1024/256 connections and find a way to make them work in parallel (with Linux), for a theoretical total of 1 mbit upload and 4 megabit download and 20GB traffic limitation.
And yes teodor I know it's bandwidth capacity and not the real transfer speed you get, but with 1 mbit upload you can at LEAST expect 512 kbits upload 90% of the time.

rolf

Teodor nowadays when a customer buys a connection with 256 down bandwidth, he expects 256/8 = about 30 kbytes download speed most of the time.
It's the same thing with adsl, when a customer buys 4mbit adsl he expects 8/4 = 0.5 mbytes/s download speed.

teodorgeorgiev

Rolf, looks like you still have issues getting me. Let me ask you, what kind of link are you using to connect your network with the provider?
A UTP-5 Ethernet cable?

The network status of your card says 100Mbps full-duplex, correct? Does it mean that you will be able to download from Internet with 10 megabytes per second ?

Start making difference between CONNECTIVITY (MEDIA) SPEED and Internet speed.

Dark_angel

Here we go, The Lebanese government want to milk the internet for us by setting limited monthly bandwith!

High internet speed for low limited monthly bandwith is quite rediculous!

rolf

teodorgeorgiev wroteThe network status of your card says 100Mbps full-duplex, correct? Does it mean that you will be able to download from Internet with 10 megabytes per second ?

No, but how is that relevant here?

teodorgeorgiev

forget it...

mahdoum

lol rolf, basically u can connect to the lebanese network at say 1Mb/s, but that doesn't mean you can connect to the world wide web ie internet (which is most websites and stuff you do online) because Lebanon's backend connection to the rest of the world isn't that great....

correct me if i'm wrong teod

rolf

Teodor until now the advertised speeds have always corresponded to the internet bandwidth.
For exaple when you buy GDS "Broadband 512" You expect a connection speed to the internet of 512KB/s and this is what you get for downloads most of the time.
Why are they going to change this with DSL now and advertise only the link speed??? I dont think so.

teodorgeorgiev

The issue is, you were thinking that if they install for you HDSL (indeed, SHDSL) instead of ADSL, you would get higher speeds :)

mahdoum

were we? lol never thought that

nuclearcat

From globalcom website
" High-Speed Internet access up to 512 Kbps dedicated to residential users;
several plans are designed to meet the market needs in terms of
bandwidth, starting at 128 Kbps"
Means it is not guaranteed. When any network reach level of profitability, it start giving real speed, not like it is now - burst always is available. Depends how is hungry for money management of ISP and how close they are to profit level, you will see difference in burst availability. I think if you will try utilise your link 100% 24/24 , you will see how it is working :)

hj88

here is a link to the article : http://www.assafir.com/iso/oldissues/20060523/pdf/finance.pdf

Strider

This is why I am not afraid about my buisiness I supply internet 24h a day no limit