lebanon ranked 172 out of 183 countries depending on internet speed... just to give you guys some info:

*96 Armenia 2.08mb/s ( just to let you guys know that Armenia is a poor country, its economy is only 12 billion, and Lebanons is 53 billion)
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*162 Afghanistan 0.74mb/s ( the countries a warzone but still manages to have a better internet than Lebanon)
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*171 gabon 0.61 mb/s <-----------anyone heard of this country? (has better internet than Lebanon *sigh*)
*172 Lebanon 0.59mb/s
*173 Nigeria 0.56mb/s

if you want to know more go to : http://speedtest.net/global.php#0
Look at the bright side :D
172 Lebanon 0.59 Mb/s
We are better than those ...

173 Nigeria 0.56 Mb/s
174 Bolivia 0.55 Mb/s
175 Ethiopia 0.54 Mb/s
176 Suriname 0.51 Mb/s
177 Mauritius 0.51 Mb/s
178 Mali 0.48 Mb/s
179 French Polynesia 0.48 Mb/s
180 Zambia 0.47 Mb/s
181 Nepal 0.46 Mb/s
182 Cameroon 0.46 Mb/s
183 Guyana 0.42 Mb/s
;)

in other news,

http://www.tayyar.org/Tayyar/News/PoliticalNews/ar-LB/Charbel-Nahas-UL-mt-4.htm

it's in Arabic, a lil Google Magic and....
Advance 2010 the Minister's speech during the opening of the Copper Gallery guidance and employment
State will open the way for the private sector to compete for maximum freedom


Opened by the Minister of Telecommunications Charbel Nahas, represented by his adviser Engineer Joseph Shalala at noon today in the compound of the Lebanese University in the event, exhibition guidance and employment Advance 2010, in the presence of deputies now Aoun and Hikmat Dib, Naji Gharios, representative of the President of the University Albannanp Dean of Faculty of Science, Dr. Ali Mneimneh, and dignitaries.

Shalala said in a speech the minister copper: I am pleased to represent the Minister of Telecommunications Charbel Nahas and to convey to you his greetings and apologies for not being able to attend in person for reasons of emergency.

This exhibition, version second step is the quality of the student councils at the Lebanese University. It contributes to direct young people in their learning and most importantly in the labor market, and was able to form a channel of communication space and dialogue between students and the Lebanese businesses are often looking for the best in the scientific competencies.

It is no secret to anyone that enlarge the size of the Lebanese economy and expansion is important and is key, because the only way to increase employment opportunities, thereby increasing the gross national product and raise growth rates.

Shortage of many measures to reach this goal.

But amid this picture, there is a glimmer of hope The Ministry of Communications to invest and utilize them to achieve a qualitative leap for the Lebanese community.

BroadBand or services of broadband Internet is precisely the backbone of this ray of hope.

The World Bank estimates in one of his studies that each increase of 10% in the penetration of the Internet Taux De Penetration equivalent increase in the gross national product per year ranging between 1.2 to 1.5%. This image has translated into Lebanese, no meaningful: an increase in national income Lebanese expected if the increased Internet penetration rate of 10%, ranging between 520 billion to 650 billion pounds annually.

Terms of the book BroadBand nearing completion, which means that the concessions and the project will start during the summer. The Lebanese will see the beginnings of the results of this huge project, starting from the first of next year.

We launched the project of extension of optical fiber in parallel with the arrival of the sea cable IMEWE will regulate the exchange of information service of a feather, when consumers and suppliers when and at Internet service providers. A phase line with the evolution in the world and allow for the transition in the cell to the next generation, and allows searching between Lebanon and neighboring countries in the re-cabling system of regional networks and Arabic.

Either the state will take care of and undertake to provide an advanced infrastructure and neutral, and thereby opens the door to the private sector to compete at the level of maximum freedom to provide services and content at the level of services and information.

The project was large and would be as much as the aspirations of the Lebanese, and will be a quantum leap and characteristic of the society, economically, and most importantly developmentally, because it will turn and over the next few years, thousands of jobs and will be an essential input for developing the balanced among the regions, from the far north to the far south.

The two words of Ali Issa student councils at the university and the dean of Munaimnah.
Terms of the book BroadBand nearing completion, which means that the concessions and the project will start during the summer. The Lebanese will see the beginnings of the results of this huge project, starting from the first of next year.
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اما الدولة فستتولى وتتعهد توفير بنية تحتية متقدمة ومحايدة، وتاليا تفتح المجال للقطاع الخاص كي يتنافس بأقصى حرية على صعيد توفير الخدمات وعلى صعيد مضمون الخدمات والمعلومات.
For some reason I cannot believe this statement...

I was at the Advance2010 Conference today actually. It's good to see that companies are interested in fresh graduates and offering training to students that haven't graduated yet. I applied for training at several companies, hopefully I'll get an opportunity.
Good news (for me) I'm back to 3 green bars in mw2 and my ping is low to 190ms, if can someone plz tell how can I show you my tests so u can beleive.
Sorry guys for lying but when I tested my ping I got 190ms, so I directly wrote that I'm getting green, because I thought that it would give me 3 green like before, but when I tried mw2 I got 2 yellow because I noticed that the ping wasn't stable at all after many tests. here are some tests in the cmd:

I tested the europe.com site because it gave 450-550ms before

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\riad>ping europe.com

Pinging europe.com [216.246.74.34] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.246.74.34: bytes=32 time=312ms TTL=47
Reply from 216.246.74.34: bytes=32 time=370ms TTL=47
Reply from 216.246.74.34: bytes=32 time=202ms TTL=47
Reply from 216.246.74.34: bytes=32 time=203ms TTL=47

Ping statistics for 216.246.74.34:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 202ms, Maximum = 370ms, Average = 271ms

C:\Documents and Settings\riad>ping europe.com

Pinging europe.com [216.246.74.34] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.246.74.34: bytes=32 time=923ms TTL=47
Reply from 216.246.74.34: bytes=32 time=958ms TTL=47
Reply from 216.246.74.34: bytes=32 time=549ms TTL=47
Reply from 216.246.74.34: bytes=32 time=290ms TTL=47

Ping statistics for 216.246.74.34:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 290ms, Maximum = 958ms, Average = 680ms

C:\Documents and Settings\riad>ping europe.com

Pinging europe.com [216.246.74.34] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.246.74.34: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=47
Reply from 216.246.74.34: bytes=32 time=226ms TTL=47
Reply from 216.246.74.34: bytes=32 time=229ms TTL=47
Reply from 216.246.74.34: bytes=32 time=227ms TTL=47

Ping statistics for 216.246.74.34:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 226ms, Maximum = 232ms, Average = 228ms
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Karim Nasser>ping europe.com

Pinging europe.com [216.246.74.34] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.246.74.34: bytes=32 time=448ms TTL=43
Reply from 216.246.74.34: bytes=32 time=445ms TTL=43
Reply from 216.246.74.34: bytes=32 time=445ms TTL=43
Reply from 216.246.74.34: bytes=32 time=449ms TTL=43

Ping statistics for 216.246.74.34:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 445ms, Maximum = 449ms, Average = 446ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Karim Nasser>ping facebook.com

Pinging facebook.com [69.63.181.11] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 69.63.181.11: bytes=32 time=513ms TTL=232
Reply from 69.63.181.11: bytes=32 time=516ms TTL=232
Reply from 69.63.181.11: bytes=32 time=517ms TTL=232
Reply from 69.63.181.11: bytes=32 time=512ms TTL=232

Ping statistics for 69.63.181.11:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 512ms, Maximum = 517ms, Average = 514ms

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hello!
want some coffee?
People who are subscribed with IDM forget about online gaming, when it comes to PINGS there is nothing stable with PINGS in IDM, I used to be addicted to games in the past and online games too, but I am not and I am still noticing these days that sometimes the ping to international websites is 170-190 and other times 400-500 it is like they are changing my backbone 3-4 times per day.
That's 100% true what you are saying Aly, but what I noticed in the past week was really weird because it gave low pings for about 3 days in a row even at 11pm. And the ping wasn't 170-190 to international websites only also it was low to all websites like google,gamespot,facebook,yahoo, and more other websites, I also tested my ping at speedtest.net and it gave me 190ms ping and 8ms jitter and C for the grade.
Nemesis-301 wrote

just tested my internet speed... no difference :(


my internet also improved ?
hmm, strange...
yup improved a bit. Man inside Lebanon the loop will go around the world to get back here.

Look at this test it was done at 11:15 a.m. I'll do another test at 3 p.m and you'll notice the huge difference.

Here's another test that confirms the good ping, it's now 1p.m.

You are in Tripoli where the IMEWE is so ..no maybe not.
But i'll check that in practice so i'll play WoW till the latency is stable and report here.
P.S: the server is:exwow-serv.exnw.com
In WoW and on this private server it was a constant 451ms with no lag and of course i wasnt in a raid of 20 chars.
other ISPs DSL subscribers are feeling an improvement in latency?
how's Ogero's ping for instance nowadays?