Internet Speed and Latency in Lebanon

Doom wrote

RamiB wroteguys does anyone tested this comapny : Connect.net.lb wireless boardband service

they have a 2Mb and 5Mb plans that i am willing to try , but i am afraid the ping will be bad for games

there is no feedback or review for them so far , currently i have ifly 1Mbs plan and the ping sucks :(

regards

https://lebgeeks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=16288
This is the thread for Connect feedback

I have connect and i do not recommend it

thank you guys , that's what i expected , just advertising.
gaming online => DSL

Hi, how can I check the real ping and real packet loss of my internet connection?
I play an online game and the ping is so high with TONS of packet loss every couple of minutes, I'm 99% sure that the results on cmd are cached by my provider. Sometimes when the internet is down, I still can ping to bbc.co.uk or 8.8.8.8 and it gives me a perfect stable 50 ms
0% packet loss.

Seems like more than half of the Lebanese are having problems since the illegal internet scandal. My ISP told me that he wanted to upgrade his bandwidth but most of the companies in Lebanon (Mobi, IDM, Terranet..) don't have enough "internet" since then. Even Ogero's internet has been bad the last few weeks.
Hopefully our government will make the right choice and fix things if not improve them.

Harb said truth.
google global cache
https://isp.google.com/iwantggc/

samer wroteThe post mentions that ISPs were getting the "Google cache service" and passing it on to customers.
This makes zero sense. "Google Cache" is not a service provided by Google to ISPs. The only thing I can think of is how Google caches a page when its crawler indexes it and makes it accessible when you press the "cached" hyperlink next to a search result. Not sure how this relates to slow internet speeds.

I guess some ISPs were forwarding youtube requests to a local google cache server (something like a google cdn for youtube) which saves international bandwidth.
When this stopped, all requests were forwarded to parent google server in europe/us/whatever and this caused a congestion in the internet in Lebanon.
Ideally, there should be a google cache cdn, a cloudflare cdn node, etc... in Lebanon.

My download speeds have been around 700 KB/s non cached, But youtube sucks because it's being throttled by my ISP currently to save bandwidth after the google cache issue.

Approx Lebanon lagging at 2003-2004

Silentcontrol wrote

NuclearVision wrote

nuclearcat wrotehttps://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/9ff81c4d-aedf-437f-a9c5-f8989f74fe8d-original.png
Approx Lebanon lagging at 2003-2004

Perhaps i misunderstood, but 1 Mbps is around 10$ nowadays, this brings up to 2008!)) Did you consider the quota?
edit: i think i get it now, is it not costumer price?

what he means it the dedicated speed which is sold as E1 in lebanon ( E1=2Mbps and cost 250$)
so 1Mbps is 125$ ( although you can't buy it alone )

Ah well thanks.
But as i understand, isps buy those from ogero.
Abroad, they buy it from the state? isn't there some kind of private infrastructure? How does it, in such case, compare?

Giving all details of Lebanese licensing and stuff probably will take several pages, i'm not ready for that. But i think Lebanon has one of most inefficient and outdated laws regarding telecom.

Most countries have private isps that anyone can buy from but they rarely sell E1 since it is really outdated they sell something can't recall the name but i know its a 150 Mbps and it costs on average 40$. Lebanon on the the other side is based on monopoly so only the government is allowed to provide Internet to the country that is why we have those high prices and bad connection : 1 there is no competition
2 do you know anything that the gouvernament runs that is not broken or corrupted ( electricity, trash,...)

155Mbps is STM1, noone use this terms this days, as E1, unless it is some old setup. It is synchronous channels suitable for "old style" telephony.
Everywhere in decent countries bandwidth sold by Mbps.