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Internet plans in Pakistan
notice that 1000 Pakistani Rupee= $11 USD....
yeahh hope someday we reach countries we thought we're better than them..

and unlimited :( most of the world is faster then us and by 2020 even 10 Mbps will be slow

At least there are still some countries worse than us, such as Zimbabwe or Sierra Leona. I remeber reading somewhere that the allocated quota for a student of a african university (forgot which one, but i think it was pretoria university) it was around 100 MB or so.

Excluding the African continent you can be sure that our percentile of service quality is definitely below the 10%.
Anyway, get accustomed to the current situation, it's going to be a while till a change comes our way.

Am i the only one who's recently having a super fast Internet connection during night. I've been downloading torrent files at an average speed of almost 160 KB/s. It peaks at 400 KB/s !

I found it weird enough to a point where i contacted my ISP and asked him about any upgrades to my/his bandwidth.

Yorgi wroteAm i the only one who's recently having a super fast Internet connection during night. I've been downloading torrent files at an average speed of almost 160 KB/s. It peaks at 400 KB/s !

I found it weird enough to a point where i contacted my ISP and asked him about any upgrades to my/his bandwidth.

o.O which ISP are you with?

If it's true then you have a speed of about 3.5 mb and that's impossible in Lebanon because max is 2.3 mb which ogero has.

i hope god with his divine powers blesses my internet connection to be like that .. amen (a)

Originally Posted by Abdallah K.
Posted on the NowLebanon Blog

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.

Sorry about the bad news guys

i already saw this article somewhere on the web, but the question is : " is it real ? " what's real ? are we going to have the promised " revolution " or not ? i just want a yes or no ! are they actually installing fiber optics or not ? are we getting connected to a new sea cable in the 31th of july ? or not ? are we gonna have 10x faster speeds by 2011 or not ??

GN90 wrote

Yorgi wroteAm i the only one who's recently having a super fast Internet connection during night. I've been downloading torrent files at an average speed of almost 160 KB/s. It peaks at 400 KB/s !

I found it weird enough to a point where i contacted my ISP and asked him about any upgrades to my/his bandwidth.

i thought i'm the only one with that "problem", cause no one was believing me.

during the whole second week of the month i had a steady 1mb (i should get 512kb) speed all day (and sometimes it gets fastert during the night) and no quota was registered. few days ago the quota marking was back but the speed remains . idk why its happening , its strange but who cares (i wish i remains like that :P), i downloaded lots of stuff last week.
usually this kind of shit happens to me form time to time , not the first time

and i notice some anomalies in the upload speed several times ( i was like WTF ) a 10mb file uploaded within seconds and i was uploading a 20mb video to facebook, it didn't take 45 secs

Can you please make some speedtests during night and day? And with which ISP are you with?

vengeance666 wrotei already saw this article somewhere on the web, but the question is : " is it real ? " what's real ? are we going to have the promised " revolution " or not ? i just want a yes or no ! are they actually installing fiber optics or not ? are we getting connected to a new sea cable in the 31th of july ? or not ? are we gonna have 10x faster speeds by 2011 or not ??

Yes we'll have the promised speed, but the main question is WHEN?????

vengeance666 wrotei already saw this article somewhere on the web, but the question is : " is it real ? " what's real ? are we going to have the promised " revolution " or not ? i just want a yes or no ! are they actually installing fiber optics or not ? are we getting connected to a new sea cable in the 31th of july ? or not ? are we gonna have 10x faster speeds by 2011 or not ??

You saw that on page 14 of this thread.
31th of july ? get real man. No call of duty without lag.

about 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.

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:





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?

wise, 256 kb/s, same *sigh*

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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[url]http://www.speedtest.net/result/886867566.png[/url]

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