on my account at control panel , i can switch between home 256/56 , home 256/256 , home 1024/256 etcc and each option shows a different expiration date...

what's with this new feature ? and how the system works ?
It is simple. You can upgrade your account, but because higher level account is more expensive, it will cut your expiration date (account will expire earlier).
amazing work nuc!!! anyway let's suppose i upgrade to the ... umm cafe 384 ( since i know it is better for latencies ) just to try for a half hour or so , i can't downgrade to my current plan right and get back my old expiration date right ?
Internet is no worky right now (apart from browsing).
Even https is gone too. anyone else facing this problem too at the moment?
And this is a Sunday, it'll have to wait for tomorrow which means 24 hours of internet outage on the biggest private ISP in Lebanon.
what ? i'm having a gaming dream right now :p latency in game is a stable 300ms with very very few spikes like a little one each 2 hours :p
Are you behind a reseller? I'm a direct subscriber (fake IP) and no internet since 3PM.
yes i'm behind a reseller , no real IP for me , and my account is home 256/56k...anyway on friday we had such a dilemma , no internet since early 10am until 6 7pm , but since then there was slight improvements in quality , don't know if it's related..
I tried calling them now. They said is it slow? I said no, it's completely gone. I suppose it's not easy to explain on the phone the difference between "no internet" and "slow internet".
There was part of services missing on broadband pppoe due attack. After i came to Beirut i fix it (now).
Only http and msn working now. gtalk won't connect. https isn't working at all. online gaming won't connect either.
browsing works ok except for some times at peak hours where...ughh

but any news about the ridiculous ingame latencies we've been having for the past 2 weeks ?
Technical problem for direct apps from yesterday evening (quality degradation), hopefully going to be solved today.
Regarding gaming, well, even bandwidth upgrades done, they are chewed and swallowed by users instantly. Even personally i want to solve that issue, it cannot be fast, i have a lot of other annoying tasks.
Youtube and all video streamings are completely blocked...Why???
blocked ? 2 hours ago at cybercafe , a guy there was streaming some videoclip songs and downloading them via realplayer normally..


EDIT: 4am and latency 700ms ingame ? no offense but sleeping users swallowing bandwidth at this time ?
Again, all video streaming blocked. And I have a 512kbps account.
About gaming latency, can u guys check for improvements?
I just tried. 128 to 149 ms latency ingame :)
---()--()--- wroteWhat game(s) are you playing, hussam ?
---()--()--- http://www.eternal-lands.com
(game server = game.eternal-lands.com and port = 2000)
It's a nice game but it takes ~5 years to level up your character to something good. To reach the top, you need 7 to 10 years.
The game itself is free. But everytime you get high spike and disconnect and die while fighting, you either drop your items and anyone can pick them up, or there is a 5$ item which will save your items from dropping into a bag. This item works only once and will disappear once used (ie. once you die). So this means 5$ every time you die and there is a good chance you will die if you are fighting and you disconnect (or close the client while in the middle of a fight) because the server will not pause or cancel the fight if you disconnect (or close the client while in the middle of a fight). Your character will still show till the fight ends then server disconnects you. However, if you disconnect or manually close the client while sitting somewhere safe and not fighting, the server disconnects you in ~5 seconds or so.
It's a nice game but those 5$ items are only purchasable by Paypal which doesn't work in Lebanon.
Back when I was a big fighter, I used to lose a lot of those 5$ magic items a month.

If you decide to try it, I can give you some tips online but since we are behind the same IP address, we will need to declare this to game moderators when you create your character since interacting with someone from the same IP will cause you to get banned (unless you declare this to moderators first).

At the moment, the game is OpenGL 1.5 but is being ported to OpenGL 2.0 which will improve graphics and game performance.

Random spikes now but not so bad:
Server latency: 210 ms
Server latency: 269 ms
Server latency: 858 ms
Server latency: 169 ms
Server latency: 734 ms
Server latency: 151 ms
Server latency: 185 ms
Server latency: 317 ms
Server latency: 933 ms
Server latency: 1156 ms
Server latency: 181 ms
Server latency: 137 ms
Server latency: 712 ms
Server latency: 127 ms
As for me Eve-Online better, but there same - need years , before you can fill good there :)
can anyone give a report how much latency in Wow?