naregkar
Hey guys!! Whats up???
Probably you heard this. Hopefully DSL will be available after March 2006.
More on the news can be found
here.
samer
thanks for notfying us Naregkar (the news will appear on the front page)
king-killer
Wait wait wait, Everythnig seems great, the price the speed ect.. BUT NO VOIP???? So Like this means I cant tlk to my friends usin my mic on MSN or Battlefield2? Or Am i understaning this wrong? Oh and my friend says his friend has a 1mb connection from WISE, and hes paying for resedential use, not bisness, is that tru?
samer
@king killer: bypassing the filters wouldn't be that hard, hehe. And WISE have a download limit, bleh.
king-killer
Limit huh?
SO lets say the limit is 1gb, and I were to Download 1gb, this means I can continue to use the internet (gamin online, Surfin)without downloadin? Or will it just just stop my connection fully? <----(STUPID STUPID STUPID IF THE CONNECTION IS STOPPED!)
naregkar
I guess you won't be able to use your Internet connection during that particular month. Since browsing is a way of downloading (you are downloading images, javascript files, etc..., all of which are being saved in your temporary Internet folder).
jalal
guys it's only 512 K, i thought i will be minimum 2 MB. if it's 512 K better to still on dial up ...
naregkar
jalal wroteif it's 512 K better to still on dial up ...
That depends on the price and monthly limit.
If the speed is really 512 kbps (= 64 KB/s) and the limit is more than 1 GB, (for example 5 GB), DSL would make sense. Normal dial-up speed in Lebanon is about 4.7 KB/s.
samer
King killer, like naregkar said. By browsing you are download files to your computer so once the limit is passed you will not be able access the Internet at ALL.
king-killer
Well, Then limits suck huh? And I still am Kinda nervouse about no VOIP, you can never trust those ISP people, maybe they make it like its almost impossible to bypass it?
hj88
hello
i called idm they told me the connection is unlimited and that the 512 connection is for 50 $ per month
further details on upload and other packages will be available in 10 days
samer
Hey hj88, welcome to lebgeeks :)
connection is unlimited
you mean, no download limit ?
further details on upload
that's what i'm worried about :/
maybe they make it like its almost impossible to bypass it?
you said "almost" did you not ? ;)
hj88
hello you can check idm for faq regarding dsl
http://www.idm.net.lb/products/dsl/index.asp
samer
ah, there seems to be no session or download limitation, .. :D
nuclearcat
But i guess bandwidth throttling :)))
naregkar
Update about DSL.
Article can be found
here.
samer
thanks for pointing this out :)
teodorgeorgiev
Looks like "the others" are afraid of the unknown (the DSL technology). Let them wait for VISP to build the DSL network, then Ogero, IDM and Cyberia will see that it is not that hard, will get some experience and will copy the VISP structure. It is not easy to be the "pioneer". Running a 10,000-links DSL network is not like to make a mesh of UTP cables, interconnected by CNet, Repotec and similar 8-port switches. Or a set of el-cheapo SMC/Zicomax/Linksys wireless APs :)
Let the small guys learn from the big guys how is the right way to do the things.
KingRhye
You make it sound like visp is lebanon's savior.. yet you don't understand the political aspects that influence these companies you mentioned above in a big project such as DSL technology implementation, so maybe you don't know for real what you're talking about here. But please, again, don't undermine us "small guys and retards".
antokh
[flaming, stop it - please.]
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guys i'm so pissed off to see all this hassle that DSL is making you go through... but also glad i don't have to worry about all those numbers and figures that you're trying to analyse. just one tip:
if the service sucks, then boycott it!!