Saturday, October 15, 2011

Lebanese ADSL as of 15 of October, 2011


ADSL Report: My Central is Bir Hasan and ISP is IDM. All i did was monitor my connection quality over the past week.

First my original connection plan is the 512k which should become 2M Plan from IDM but didnt, yet. My current speeds are 1 Mbps downloads and 256 Kbps upload. Latency to Most European servers is nothing more than 120ms maximum, in the United States it depends on the State if it is on the Eastern Seaboard(better) or not(worse). Note that sometimes when testing the inner States the latency is ~200ms.

Now the headaches, outages.....packet losses and other "BS".
The periods which I experience bad internet quality are usually from 2pm till 4pm and 10pm till 12:30am. During those times browsing is a real pain when you experience packets losses AND latency back to the regular 450ms i used to experiences before the 1st of October "upgrades". On top of all of this the download speed ONLY becomes 512 Kbps.

In Conclusion let’s forget about the political problems and technical problems in this whole Internet Revolution in this country, and only focus on "What am i getting after i pay my monthly fee for the Private/Public Owned ISP?". I can say there is a "game" in all of this, all telecom ministers did a great job so that we can reach this point from a war plagued country. But you cant keep this "revolution" if all the لجنة الاتصالات which is usually appointed by the Parliament, is filled with "politicians" who dont even know what 3G or ADSL is. What i mean is, not to appoint engineers only.....no but at least people who are technologists, technology enthusiasts......

You may like or dislike what i posted but i am expressing my opinion about the current situation, please do the same by commenting to my post.

"Note to political loyalists: Please refrain from defending or attacking my post just because it supports/attacks your political party's opinion about the Telecom situation or decisions taken by the current government."

Kareem Nasser.....Out...