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belal · 2010-04-13T10:06:44+00:00

السعة ستزيد 100 ضعف بعد تمديد الألياف البصريّة الجديدة تخيّل سعة الإنترنت في متناولك أكبر بـ100 ضعف السعة الموجودة حالياً، وبسرعة لا تقارن مع الواقع القائم....

chosen2k

What is really the issue here, is that the government has no idea what the internet uses are all about. ( Look at any website ending with .gov.lb)

The internet first started as a government application and then grew to the popular masses.
If the Lebanese government actually used the internet for uses other than looking for p0r|| then they will think about a faster internet. Because the majority who are in control think that the internet is p0r||, facebook and msn and probably russianbrides.com

My motorcycle was stolen 1 year ago. When i went to the Police i asked a policeman if they're going to find my motorcycle, he answered without flinching NO.
Anyways the place was crap everything was written on paper. I didn't even see a computer.
How are they going to find anything ? I understand the guy... if they actually found a motorcycle dumped somewhere who the hell is going to look in a huge number of files and cross reference?

Then I went to nef3a. And that's where the fun started. I was being sent from office to office to get "inkad". And each office was telling me to say to the other office to "yefta7 el computer".
What the hell is that? if they were connected "police" --------- "nef3a" then it would have been a matter of seconds. Not 6 hours of running around aimlessly.

In my opinion, to be treated for something other than msn, the internet needs to be implemented within the government !

A central core of data. SKYNET.

The-MMMs

can't really compare internet status with your problems with the police, but i definitely see your line of thought. The majority of users here in Lebanon just need consistent HTTP browsing speeds, they dnt need good latency and big quotas, so its basically we have to do with what we have now. shame really.

chosen2k

internet status in lebanon is exactly the same as the efficiency of the police in lebanon. :)

It's slow, archaic and there are some locations where it's nonexistent.

Anyways that's not what i meant... nonetheless it was fun comparing them for you.

chosen2k

About that Internet cable…
Posted by Matt Nash
Thursday, June 17. 2010

Strangled by slow internet. (Nicholas Lowry)

I took a bold stand a few months ago. Publically, Telecoms Minister Charbel Nahhas was talking up an underwater Internet cable that was supposed to bring Lebanon enough bandwidth to knock your socks off by May. Other sources I interviewed confirmed this. I believed them and declared in an article that salvation was at hand.

Friends continue to mock me. Well, I have an update, of sorts.

Monday, as part of my stalking campaign, I “ran into” Nahhas at an economic conference. What, I asked him, ever happened to this cable? The problem, he said, lies in Egypt and an Egyptian delegation will be visiting Lebanon “tomorrow” [i.e. Tuesday] to discuss the problems.

Today, I texted and e-mailed his PR guy to ask what happened at the meeting. “The meeting will be tonight at 7 pm, so no answer before,” he replied. Tuesday, Thursday, they both begin with “t,” I guess.

Meanwhile, this morning, Riad Bahsoun – who spoke with me about the VoIP ban – gave a little more background on the problems in Egypt. He says Egyptian Army Intelligence wants access to and control of all the switches and terminals – and therefore all data passing through them – associated with the cable on Egyptian soil.

Needless to say, the various companies that have bought into the cable are not impressed. Bahsoun says there’ve been “at least 25” meetings to try breaking through this impasse, all to no avail. He’s not hopeful a solution is in the offing, and lambasted at length Lebanon’s outdated infrastructure, which would have trouble handling the increased bandwidth were the undersea cable ever to arrive.

Lebanon’s IT sector is neither properly governed nor does Lebanon have a dedicated core to support efficient Internet distribution. When will the country be ready – if it started today?

“At least six years from now,” Bahsoun said.

Damn. Sorry to any readers I mislead after getting tricked.
http://nowlebanon.com/BlogDetails.aspx?TID=306&FID=6

Raficoo

Internet Cafe.... lulz :(

o well.. maybe in Leb one day.... 200 years later.. lol

Flakk

One internet cafe in Poland = Lebanon's total internet bandwidth. :P

babum

and Im guessing you are only paying for the price of the coffee.

kareem_nasser

I always say that, before improving the bandwidth we must improve the local infrastructure to handle this and gives us minimal latency locally. The solution is Fiber Optics.

al_jamal

kareem_nasser wroteI always say that, before improving the bandwidth we must improve the local infrastructure to handle this and gives us minimal latency locally. The solution is Fiber Optics.

whos gonna pay this? :(

J4D

They Are Actually Laying Fiber Across Lebanon .

Edit : Samer , cool script ! what i wrote was all capital letters :) .

XhacK

jadberro wroteThey Are Actually Laying Fiber Across Lebanon .

Edit : Samer , cool script ! what i wrote was all capital letters :) .

good news....but how did u know that?

kareem_nasser

al_jamal wrote
kareem_nasser wroteI always say that, before improving the bandwidth we must improve the local infrastructure to handle this and gives us minimal latency locally. The solution is Fiber Optics.
whos gonna pay this? :(

Dude Lebanon is a small country so having a fiber optics infrastructure is not gonna cost billions of dollars and one of the guys here talked about Thomson or Siemens actually approached the Lebanese gov and told them that they can start fiber optics and it will be completed in months costing hundreds of millions, but no reply from the government(or other thinks you know it).

al_jamal

kareem_nasser wrote
al_jamal wrote
kareem_nasser wroteI always say that, before improving the bandwidth we must improve the local infrastructure to handle this and gives us minimal latency locally. The solution is Fiber Optics.
whos gonna pay this? :(
Dude Lebanon is a small country so having a fiber optics infrastructure is not gonna cost billions of dollars and one of the guys here talked about Thomson or Siemens actually approached the Lebanese gov and told them that they can start fiber optics and it will be completed in months costing hundreds of millions, but no reply from the government(or other thinks you know it).

i know, but whos gonna pay these hundreds of millions?

Kassem

al_jamal wrote
kareem_nasser wrote
al_jamal wrote whos gonna pay this? :(
Dude Lebanon is a small country so having a fiber optics infrastructure is not gonna cost billions of dollars and one of the guys here talked about Thomson or Siemens actually approached the Lebanese gov and told them that they can start fiber optics and it will be completed in months costing hundreds of millions, but no reply from the government(or other thinks you know it).
i know, but whos gonna pay these hundreds of millions?

We are? Of course we are. Aren't we paying a fat bunch of money for our phone and internet bills at the end of each month? Where is this money going? They're making huge amounts of profits. They should invest the extra profits somewhere, and improving the infrastructure of the telecom sector is definitely the right place for investment.

babum

they could also let some foreign company into the networking business so it could develop it.

babum

I was checking the liban post site and found out that they sold lynx card, and while searching a bit deeper I found they had some mobi 256 unlimited connection, card.

can anyone confirm this info? is it old? Is there really any difference between the sodetel's mobi to lynx's mobi or cyberia's , I mean besides the ping.

kareem_nasser

I am noticing a lot of degrading in the connection quality, sometimes i can ping 8.8.8.8 there is a response but no internet connection or i cant ping idm.net.lb!

gamer4life

I'm with idm ifly and I can't ping from the cmd at all I can only ping from pingtest.net why this happens?

Kassem

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Admin>ping 8.8.8.8

Pinging 8.8.8.8 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=134ms TTL=55
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=136ms TTL=55
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=136ms TTL=55
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=132ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 8.8.8.8:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 132ms, Maximum = 136ms, Average = 134ms

Ok call me stupid but what does that mean?

kareem_nasser

this is one of the fastest Google DNS servers thats what battikh said

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