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gamer4life wrote

babum wroteabout two months ago I used my mobi connection with a 512kbit plan and got myself a download speed of 120kb/s so its around 1 mbit.

Yea me too, I had the 512kb plan and I was getting 1.02 mb download also. By the way I went to see speedtest.net and pressed on my results which is above and look what I found:

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I don't remember that I did a speedtest and got more then 0.64mb speed, I have the 512kb plan from ifly and I don't have double speed, so why is their 1.38mb in my results?

thats because you are not using a fixed ip, so every time you disconnect your modem you change your ip and while giving your IP to the next user (it doesnt happen just like that but you get the idea) so there must have been someone in lebanon who used your ip and got that speedtest, lets hunt him down.

Nemesis-301 wrote

MegaCool wrotewell mine is supposed to be a 256K connection, heres the after midnight result

http://www.speedtest.net/result/885260107.png

:O

I'm gonna stay up late today and test mine after midnight but when you say "after midnight" do you mean around 1:00 A.M ?

Well yeah you can basically see the exact time this test was taken, its 1:02 am GMT time, add 3 more hours, and its 4:02 am..
I never sleep at night although i have to wake up at 9:00am for my work :P

Yorgi wroteMy ISP is SatGate NOC ;)

If u have the time and patience to make us a Howto thread to connecting with SatGate involving hardware and where u got it from, payment methods, download limits...etc would be widely appreiciated by most members of lebgeeks ;)

MegaCool wrote

Nemesis-301 wrote

MegaCool wrotewell mine is supposed to be a 256K connection, heres the after midnight result

http://www.speedtest.net/result/885260107.png

:O

I'm gonna stay up late today and test mine after midnight but when you say "after midnight" do you mean around 1:00 A.M ?

Well yeah you can basically see the exact time this test was taken, its 1:02 am GMT time, add 3 more hours, and its 4:02 am..
I never sleep at night although i have to wake up at 9:00am for my work :P

too tired to wait until 1 am so I tested it now but no difference :(

But what about the ping? I find it a bit high and that's bad for gamers.

gamer4life wroteI thought the same thing but I noticed it was exactly the same IP for all my results, the IP is 212.36.219.1 and it says Inconet Data Management for all results. Can anyone please explain to me what a fixed IP do?

A fixed Ip would be like a public IP (as I see it) it makes much easier connections from your pc to other computers on the net, programs such as video streaming, download servers, or a camera recording system via internet will be managed easier when you can assign your pc with a fixed IP that can easily be located allowing connections.

Now respecting what you were saying about the IP's, if you always have the same IP while doing the tests, it means that your ISP was assigned with a very limited number of IP's which are being shared by all his customers. Give it a try, try downloading anything from rapidshare or megaupload and see how it will block you because you have already downloaded something or are in process of downloading something (which you havent).

geeks, watch the news today, charbel nahhas talked about the broadband in lebanon I saw it today at the 2 PM news on New TV he also talked about 15 mb/s internet connections...

@babum: the IP address that you always have in speed tests is probably the Proxy IP address.

Nemesis-301 wrotegeeks, watch the news today, charbel nahhas talked about the broadband in lebanon I saw it today at the 2 PM news on New TV he also talked about 15 mb/s internet connections...

yup, I've been trying to find his speech on tayyar.org but couldn't find it. It was a very interesting speech.

for when ?

chosen2k wrotefor when ?

If I'm not mistaken he said that within the next 16 months, 75% of the Lebanese residents will have access to a 15Mb/s broadband connection. He also mentioned that this is not "internet speed" because after 1 or 2 Mb/s it doesn't make any difference. But this will open the door to a lot of other services that are not yet available in Lebanon such as online TV, e-Learning, podcasts and many other services that Lebanon doesn't have access to because of the limited connectivity.

lets just start with the basic: a 1 Mb/s unlimited connection.

Please, somebody post Charbel Nahhas speech.

Kassem wrote

chosen2k wrotefor when ?

If I'm not mistaken he said that within the next 16 months, 75% of the Lebanese residents will have access to a 15Mb/s broadband connection. He also mentioned that this is not "internet speed" because after 1 or 2 Mb/s it doesn't make any difference. But this will open the door to a lot of other services that are not yet available in Lebanon such as online TV, e-Learning, podcasts and many other services that Lebanon doesn't have access to because of the limited connectivity.

that sounds really great, but what about the other 25% :D

i mean 50% is beirut, and then who will be the 25% who are lucky and who will be the 25% who wont :D

Samer99 wrotePlease, somebody post Charbel Nahhas speech.

Here is the link:

http://www.tayyar.org/Tayyar/News/PoliticalNews/ar-LB/Charbel-Nass-JAdi-mt-8.htm

Haven't you heard ? they are naming the Lebanese fiber network after me :)

full text can be read here :http://www.tayyar.org/Tayyar/News/PoliticalNews/ar-LB/Charbel-Nass-JAdi-mt-8.htm