I'm working with actcom for few years, both in work and with adsl at home They are great, they would even configure their servers in a ways other ISPs dont even know about just because I asked to (and becuase I'm a business client) I get good rates from the net, and almos no downtime.
erez Malcolm Kavalsky wrote: > Eli Marmor wrote: > >> I'm afraid it was a mistake to raise this problem here. >> >> I thought that *ISP's problems*, which are raised only when Linux is on >> the other side, would interest the list. As it already happened in the >> past. The ISP's don't give a damn, because 99% of their users use >> Winodws. They just ask you whether you use the "haigan" of Bezeq or of >> them, and ask you what the error code is. And please don't tell them >> about CHAP and PAP. They've never heard such terms. Not to mention >> Linux. >> > .. snip ... > >> >> Tomorrow they will tell me what was the exact fix in Barak, but I don't >> believe that 012 will change anything. So I'll buy a third ADSL account; >> After all, somebody must fund the ISP's in such a hard time, don't you >> think so? >> >> And just one last question for other 012 ADSL users (or users of other >> ISP's): Has any of you experienced similar problems recently? i.e. when >> connectiong with a Linux connected to the Alcatel modem, and using IP >> masquerading, have you experienced (sometimes) problems with external >> HTTP sites? Please write. I don't want to leave 012 for another ISP >> that has the same problem. And in any case, it's probably the time to >> add a list of "safe-ISP's" to the great ADSL FAQ of mulix/Dani/etc. >> >> P.S. I must admit that the performance of 012 (when it works...) are >> great. I'll miss them. >> > I recently changed my ISP from Internet Zahav to Actcom. Zahav > were blocking http requests to my home site, and also charged > extra for a fixed IP. (As an aside, when I told Zahav why I > was closing my account, they were prepared to drop their rate > by 50%! But wouldn't fix the problem. It was really hard to get > them off my back) > > In general, it seems that Actcom are more Linux friendly, and > I haven't had any serious problems. Occasionally, once every few > of weeks, their link to overseas goes down for a couple of > hours, I haven't kept exact statistics. Otherwise, I have > no complaints. I am masquerading my home network (not large only > 4 computers) seamlessly. > > Malcolm > > > > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
