Broadband in Lebanon - Latest Updates

belal · 2010-04-13T10:06:44+00:00

السعة ستزيد 100 ضعف بعد تمديد الألياف البصريّة الجديدة تخيّل سعة الإنترنت في متناولك أكبر بـ100 ضعف السعة الموجودة حالياً، وبسرعة لا تقارن مع الواقع القائم....

Aj_BlaZ

Aly wroteI personally don't want a house on the moon neither a fiber optic cable to my house,
Simply a 2 Mbps connection with about 16-20 GB quota per month will fit my needs.

its called dream land :D , Libnen balad l ahlem

MegaCool

Flakk wrote4mb/s for 20gb ? nope. I want 100gigs or more or just remove the damn limits.

If it wasn't for that stupid 2.5 gig limit on my connection i wouldn't be nagging on the internet in the first place.

Seriously who needs fast Internet connection with extremely low bandwidth limit, a speed of 4mbps shouldn't have limits on the quota, or at least a reasonable limit like 200GB a month for lets say 30/40 dollars...otherwise seriously 2.5gig a month??? what are we like in 1994?? Internet here is a mad joke

chosen2k

i want a 100mb/s for a terra limit.

/s

EddieEC

The rumored new plan is going to update the 256kb/s to 2 mb/s with 120 GIG Quota.

MegaCool

EddieEC wroteThe rumored new plan is going to update the 256kb/s to 2 mb/s with 120 GIG Quota.

If that's true then we can finally stream HD youtube videos instantly, actually that's what I've heard about the new quota something between 100-200 Gigs,but once again its all talk, i don't this this will ever happen, at least not in this century..

Kassem

yeah but when? :)

Flakk

2011 guys 2011 :P yala a few more month and we will be disappointed again...

Nemesis-301

Flakk wrote2011 guys 2011 :P yala a few more month and we will be disappointed again...

A few more months? its in late 2011, thats another year....

ck-1116

120 gb limit? you guys are dreaming!

kareem_nasser

I have said this before but i really have a good feeling about this i don't know why(or maybe not).

MegaCool

who cares if its in 2011??? thats like a year before the end of the world... let us taste the beauty of fast internet access atleast 2 years before the end :D

Kassem

MegaCool wrotewho cares if its in 2011??? thats like a year before the end of the world... let us taste the beauty of fast internet access atleast 2 years before the end :D

funny... :)

EddieEC

The updates will come soon, I have a feeling it will. I read in Le commerce, that Charbel Nahas said that the quota for the 2mbps plan (currently 256kbps) will be 120 gigs.

bigjudge

The speed might go up; However, I am very skeptic about the limit. You all know that the ministry of communication is a cash cow for the governement (the minister himeself admitted on "kalam el nass" a couple of weeks ago. If i have a gold mine that makes about 16 billion dollar a year profit, why should i get rid of it. We all pay top dollars for those extra gigs, i believe the limit will stay the same, if not worse, the price of the extra gigs might come down a dollar or two.

I Hope that i am wrong, anything is possible in Lebanon.

Flakk

Yeah you have a point, but even now the government or say Ogero pays 0.15$ for each 1GB we spend.
And they charge very high prices for 4GB or 8GB of limits.

Xsever

From Al Balad

kareem_nasser

Al Balad :( i have a bad experience working with them. But ihope they are right. :)

_joe_

Sometimes when i read forums like that i wonder why people don't try to research a bit more and be realistic, quoting some of the posts here, users are waiting for some non logical quotas, me as a person who resided in Montreal for 3 years, and being a heavy user on the internet, got the biggest quota in the region which is a connection of 20mbps with a limit of 100gb (a 30gb can be added for an extra 30$) that connection cost 130$, and believe me, those 130$ can fly within a month, because everything is "relative" a 7mb connection has a 40gb limit a 2mb connection 10gb limit (similar to Lebanon +2gb) and so on and so forth. So trust me a connection of 4mb with a 20gb limit is not logical, not legal, because worldwide standards limit the connections for piracy reduction and similar directions. Now you tell me: we are in Lebanon we do whatever we want, that's your choice but that will just push us further in that retarded hole and we will stick to our fancy 1mb connection. know that a regular user doesn't have use of more than 1mb which is more than sufficient for media streaming, browsing, and flash/small games and a 5mb connection is more than enough for a single user heavy gamer, a faster connection will only be explained with several users on the same connection (i was living with roommates). And for a conclusion, no quota offered a free night traffic period. So to wrap it all up, i came back to Lebanon in January, and i can say, as much as the switch from a 20mbps to 512(wise bronze) was weird, i don't find it limitating me except for gaming. if so get a real ip for +20$ on your dsl quota and you're up to 80-120ms ping, not so good for shooters but a smooth and nice connection never the less.
I hope that my post made things clear, all the best for all
Regards

Joe Hannouch
Game Developer
Ubisoft Entertainment-Montreal

rolf

Thank you Joe.
The unreliability, high latency and low bandwidth of the connection here still makes the experience frustrating. If I'm paying $200, I would at least like it to be fun.
I was in Montreal in 2004 and I've seen how fast pages load, and they still don't load so fast in Lebanon, now, in 2010.
As for the quota, you have a point. But 100gb is about 10 times what you can get here for the equivalent of $130 CAN.
BTW I'm on DSL, but WISE is a responsive connection, in my experience, although with a low quota for the price.

kareem_nasser

because everything is "relative"

I apply "Relativety" on my everyday life.
OMG you're a developer.. do you have twitter or something.(sorry for the off-topic)

I always think about what is the 4megabits/sec going to do to the leabnese ppl well they are not gamers so the latency isnt a concern + they use lots and lots of illegal stuff + they use YT but we got used to the waiting and if you want a better connection for YouTube just get a 512k plan or 1megabit/sec. Knowing the lebanese ppl they will try tricks to overcome restriction so what we have is what we deserve.
The only use for good internet and high bandwidth in Lebanon is for business, banks, firms, etc.

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