Feedback for IDM

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!

If anyone is interested, IDM finally allows to turn off interleaving it seems. Got it sorted out today and my ping reduced by 25ms across the board. Might be worth a shot to improve latency for some.

ZER0 wrote

Super Official wroteIf anyone is interested, IDM finally allows to turn off interleaving it seems. Got it sorted out today and my ping reduced by 25ms across the board. Might be worth a shot to improve latency for some.

Thats neat. How do I request it? Do I just call them and ask them to turn interleaving off? And are there any drawbacks to it?

I just emailed them asking to consider turning it off. They called me back yesterday and told me it can be done as I am on the GDS network and that they'll send a request. They got it done quickly and had it turned off this morning. I noticed that my SNR margin dropped by around 0.8 which I don't mind because I already am locked at 4mbps because I have the unlimited plan. No packet loss or disconnections so far. Latency in rainbow six for example dropped from 95ms to 65ms.
It's worth taking a shot at it especially if your connection is already stable.

Super Official wrote

ZER0 wrote

Super Official wroteIf anyone is interested, IDM finally allows to turn off interleaving it seems. Got it sorted out today and my ping reduced by 25ms across the board. Might be worth a shot to improve latency for some.

Thats neat. How do I request it? Do I just call them and ask them to turn interleaving off? And are there any drawbacks to it?

I just emailed them asking to consider turning it off. They called me back yesterday and told me it can be done as I am on the GDS network and that they'll send a request. They got it done quickly and had it turned off this morning. I noticed that my SNR margin dropped by around 0.8 which I don't mind because I already am locked at 4mbps because I have the unlimited plan. No packet loss or disconnections so far. Latency in rainbow six for example dropped from 95ms to 65ms.
It's worth taking a shot at it especially if your connection is already stable.

Awesome, especially since I play r6 siege. But are there any drawbacks to it?

ZER0 wrote

Super Official wrote

ZER0 wrote Thats neat. How do I request it? Do I just call them and ask them to turn interleaving off? And are there any drawbacks to it?

I just emailed them asking to consider turning it off. They called me back yesterday and told me it can be done as I am on the GDS network and that they'll send a request. They got it done quickly and had it turned off this morning. I noticed that my SNR margin dropped by around 0.8 which I don't mind because I already am locked at 4mbps because I have the unlimited plan. No packet loss or disconnections so far. Latency in rainbow six for example dropped from 95ms to 65ms.
It's worth taking a shot at it especially if your connection is already stable.

Awesome, especially since I play r6 siege. But are there any drawbacks to it?

Possible drawbacks are a little more packet loss when the line is unstable, as well as potentially lowering your speed by a couple mbps. Interleaving is basically a form of error correction so turning it off may cause these issues if your line is already unstable. But so far no drawbacks on my side.

Same! I juust emailed them and instantly they dropped it to 1ms interleaving. Ping went down to 56ms to Paris.

I've been asking alot of questions about Idm because I'll be subscribed to them starting next month. Right now, I'm subscribed to a 200 gbs open speed offer with sodetel (150 gbs with 50 gbs extra during quarantine) and the limit is pretty good. Which plan do you recommend for me from Idm? I considered the iplan popular offer, but I would like to hear other suggestions since I can change it later on (iplans also sound a bit fishy). I know that they also have the same offer for the same price, but do you think there's a better option? My consumption is basically online gaming, conferencing, and streaming (mainly youtube and gogoanime). Thanks

iPlan is basically shared unlimited, my family tried it for one month and had terrible experience with low speeds and unreliable internet so they went back to the limited 100 or 120GB plan which usually works normally, so I do not recommend iPlan at all

if you are searching for unlimited with IDM but with no FUP, you have to get open speed limited for example OS 200GB package like I did and then get the unlimited evening package for 12,000 extra so in my case it's 82,000 a month, and the benefit of this is that it has no FUP so it won't throttle your speed after 13gbs a day like i had with iplan premium.

yourlocalfbiagent wroteif you are searching for unlimited with IDM but with no FUP, you have to get open speed limited for example OS 200GB package like I did and then get the unlimited evening package for 12,000 extra so in my case it's 82,000 a month, and the benefit of this is that it has no FUP so it won't throttle your speed after 13gbs a day like i had with iplan premium.

Actually, besides the iplan I considered the 150 gbs plan with unlimited night. You mentioned the unlimited evening, to my understanding, it only doesn't consume data from streaming (selected apps) and gaming. Is it like the unlimited night traffic? If not what are the selected apps?