Feedback for IDM

Shix wrote

wollyka wroteIt is not only VDSL
It is started happening after the online learning and the lockdown.
Check if you have any packets losses try pinging 8.8.4.4 -t

Now while lying in bed and heard my brother complain about lag while he is playing fortnite, I pinged google dns from my iphone to see whats happening and thats the result

From a former IDM user I have no doubt that their ping is awful and not stable, but to really isolate the issue you need to disconnect all the devices from the modem and only have 1 device (the device which he is gaming with) connected to the modem via Ethernet and test if it will happen.

The internet in Lebanon will spike its ping on any usage, add to that the low upload speeds is causing more ping spikes, sometimes it is an issue of a wifi device so if disconnecting all the devices is not possible try to have a ping to your gateway and check the result, it should not exceed 4ms in normal cases

Luckily I am not in Lebanon currently, just to brag a little bit :) here is my ping to the same IP

C:\Users\Ayman>ping 8.8.4.4

Pinging 8.8.4.4 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 8.8.4.4: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=119
Reply from 8.8.4.4: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=119
Reply from 8.8.4.4: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=119
Reply from 8.8.4.4: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=119

How is it that some IDM users have pings ranging from 60-80 while I always am getting ping that ranges from 90 to 120. What is the solution to this?

RH-ExtremeG wroteHow is it that some IDM users have pings ranging from 60-80 while I always am getting ping that ranges from 90 to 120. What is the solution to this?

If it's consistently higher, then it's probably interleaving.

can you turn interleaving off for IDM? I once asked them and the dude was clueless. I get 80+ as well, usually around 90.

Beta0 wrote

RH-ExtremeG wroteHow is it that some IDM users have pings ranging from 60-80 while I always am getting ping that ranges from 90 to 120. What is the solution to this?

If it's consistently higher, then it's probably interleaving.

You cannot turn off interleaving in IDM. Is it possible that ogero can handle that request despite being an IDM user?

Anyone having bad upload speed at night reaching 60kbps? Gaming is unbearable at this time, ping fluctuating between 999,400,300 ms and severe lag spikes. Im really fed up with IDM, I’ve been with them over 8 years. Im starting to think about switching to a cable guy which offers great speed ( download and upload ) with a ping reaching 60 ms. It’s a shame how dsl went so downhill once they started giving offers to everyone.

Did anybody try IDM iplan offers? They claim to be open speed with unlimited quotas. They don't provide the difference between the 3 iplan offers which makes it sound fishy.

agdroubi wroteDid anybody try IDM iplan offers? They claim to be open speed with unlimited quotas. They don't provide the difference between the 3 iplan offers which makes it sound fishy.

I've tried subscribing to the iPlan popular plan for a month and must say it is kind of a scam. The only things that are open speed are caches services such as youtube, netflix, play store, psn... while other stuff is stuck at 2 mbps most of the time, while sometimes being open speed for a couple of hours magically. There doesn't seem to be a FUP of the cached services though. Latency is just the same as regular DSL.
I would not personally subscribe to it again as most of what I do is uncached, but some people might get great service if all they do is socail media and multimedia consumption.

Super Official wrote

agdroubi wroteDid anybody try IDM iplan offers? They claim to be open speed with unlimited quotas. They don't provide the difference between the 3 iplan offers which makes it sound fishy.

I've tried subscribing to the iPlan popular plan for a month and must say it is kind of a scam. The only things that are open speed are caches services such as youtube, netflix, play store, psn... while other stuff is stuck at 2 mbps most of the time, while sometimes being open speed for a couple of hours magically. There doesn't seem to be a FUP of the cached services though. Latency is just the same as regular DSL.
I would not personally subscribe to it again as most of what I do is uncached, but some people might get great service if all they do is socail media and multimedia consumption.

Thank you

anayman_k7 wrote

ZER0 wroteHello. Did anyone try the iplan offer? I was thinking of subscribing to it because it sounds really good, but almost too good to be true. if anyone tried it or has any info on it I would really appreciate it. And if you could give me a general review about idm like latency and support and stuff it would be perfect because I'm currently subscribed to sodetel and am aiming for idm. Also I'm in Ashrafieh for like being far from them... I mostly stream on websites like 4anime gogoanime 9anime...(pirated anime streaming websites) and I also download torrents and play online games. If anyone has any experience with the plan do you think it would work for me and do you recommend it? Open speed for me is about 16mb.

I tired Unlimited Popular, IT SUCKS, it is basically unlimited with speeds being bad most of the times and ping is highly unstable, before that I was using OpenSpeed 120GB and this was very good to me, luckily I only tried it for 1 month and after 2 days my suffer should end

Would you recommend the limited open speed plans? How is the ping and is it good for streaming on pirated websites? I'm currently subscribed to the 150gbs open speed in sodetel and I'm comfortable with it so if the limited plans are better I will subscribe to them

ZER0 wrote

anayman_k7 wrote

ZER0 wroteHello. Did anyone try the iplan offer? I was thinking of subscribing to it because it sounds really good, but almost too good to be true. if anyone tried it or has any info on it I would really appreciate it. And if you could give me a general review about idm like latency and support and stuff it would be perfect because I'm currently subscribed to sodetel and am aiming for idm. Also I'm in Ashrafieh for like being far from them... I mostly stream on websites like 4anime gogoanime 9anime...(pirated anime streaming websites) and I also download torrents and play online games. If anyone has any experience with the plan do you think it would work for me and do you recommend it? Open speed for me is about 16mb.

I tired Unlimited Popular, IT SUCKS, it is basically unlimited with speeds being bad most of the times and ping is highly unstable, before that I was using OpenSpeed 120GB and this was very good to me, luckily I only tried it for 1 month and after 2 days my suffer should end

Would you recommend the limited open speed plans? How is the ping and is it good for streaming on pirated websites? I'm currently subscribed to the 150gbs open speed in sodetel and I'm comfortable with it so if the limited plans are better I will subscribe to them

I was an IDM user for more than 7-8 years. What I can tell you is that they one of the highest pings compared to other ISPs, between 90-120. Ever since covid happened, their services degraded to the bottom, throttling at random times ( even in the morning), bad upload speeds ( can’t even make a whatsapp call). What I would recommend is you to switch to ogero with interleaving off for low pings. I left IDM 1 month ago and switch to a cable reseller which was the best solution ( ping reaching between 60 and 80), download speed reaching to 52 mbps at midnight and upload reaching between 12 and 30 mbps. Netflix and youtube are cached so no lag what so ever. Believe me, do not switch to IDM ever, bad customer service and bad network sadly.

ZER0 wrote

anayman_k7 wrote

ZER0 wroteHello. Did anyone try the iplan offer? I was thinking of subscribing to it because it sounds really good, but almost too good to be true. if anyone tried it or has any info on it I would really appreciate it. And if you could give me a general review about idm like latency and support and stuff it would be perfect because I'm currently subscribed to sodetel and am aiming for idm. Also I'm in Ashrafieh for like being far from them... I mostly stream on websites like 4anime gogoanime 9anime...(pirated anime streaming websites) and I also download torrents and play online games. If anyone has any experience with the plan do you think it would work for me and do you recommend it? Open speed for me is about 16mb.

I tired Unlimited Popular, IT SUCKS, it is basically unlimited with speeds being bad most of the times and ping is highly unstable, before that I was using OpenSpeed 120GB and this was very good to me, luckily I only tried it for 1 month and after 2 days my suffer should end

Would you recommend the limited open speed plans? How is the ping and is it good for streaming on pirated websites? I'm currently subscribed to the 150gbs open speed in sodetel and I'm comfortable with it so if the limited plans are better I will subscribe to them

For ping and latency Ogero is the best, with interleaving off you can see your ping goes as low as 60ms, but you MUST have a clean phone line connection, usually if you are not into details you can tell if your OpenSpeed can reach 16mbps now, the downside of using Ogero that you will pay more since they don't have any unlimited night plan, also they have more blocked sites. With IDM you will have higher ping, around 100ms, also it might get funky sometimes so it is less stable overall but their LIMITED plans are good enough in my experience, what made me go with them is the ability to subscribe to Unlimited Night service which makes your internet unlimited from 11pm to 7am, and during this period your internet will not suck like when you are using any UNLIMITED plan.

Update for IDM iSuck plans, yesterday luckily the month was over and I am back to the limited plan, and like magic the internet was back to its good form! Good speeds, stable pings even during the unlimited night period! This confirms that these plans are purely SCAM!

Don't ever ever subscribe to an unlimited plan from any ISP. They all suck!

wollyka wroteDon't ever ever subscribe to an unlimited plan from any ISP. They all suck!

I'm at 1.3TB since beginning of the month on Terranet WDSL, it's pricey though.

Can confirm, terranet WDSL is on a whole other level.

WDSL is not at the same price level as the DSL plans so no comparison here. You are paying a lot more.
Glad to here that terranet WDSL is great. I might subscribe to it when I move to Mansourieh since no landline/DSL there and I need a fast internet connection.

Terranet WDSL is cheaper than 4G overall if you are able to download 1.3 TB!