Same story here. I signed up for a year, and after the year ended they told me I have too pay 2000 NIS for the next year (that's 166 NIS a month!) because of high bandwidth usage. So I guess that's what they need the monitoring for.
I'm also a happy Netvision customer now. Although having a static IP was pretty cool. --Alex --- "El-al, Netta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this is what i have to say about actcom: > last year i got sick of bezeqint's crappy service > and their hanging up on me every time i uttered the > word linux so i switched to actcom. they were a > little more expensive but offered me a deal for a > half a year for fifty something shekels for 1.5M. > after a half a year, they started charging me about > 100 shekels so i called them up and asked them what > deal they could offer me now. > they said that since my download bandwidth usage was > over 9G a month that it wasn't worth it for them and > they couldn't offer me anything better! > so i switched to netvision who give me 1.5M for > forty something shekels without having to even agree > to be with them for a minimum amount of time. > also, my new connection is much better because > apparently actcom was putting a limiter on the > connection... > so as much as i like actcom's attitude towards > linux, i don't think it justifies paying more than > twice as much for less bandwidth... > oh, and another annoying thing about them - they > charged me on the 24th of each month for the service > of the month after, so when i called to cancel, they > couldn't even reimburse me on the days that i no > longer wanted their service. > so to sum it up, imho, actcom sux. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Ido Kanner > > Sent: Wed, September 21, 2005 12:08 PM > > To: Linux-IL > > Subject: Actcom without a dailer costs more > > > > > > Hi list, > > > > Recently I updated my 4 years old account in > Actcom (this is > > my 4th year). > > After watching the price of the account in my > office, I found > > out that I pay a > > lot more for a lot less. That is I pay 760 NIS for > 750 > > without a dialer, while > > at work we pay a lot less for a faster connection. > > > > > BTW I was told that if I'll move to a dialer, it > will cost me > > 200 NIS less !!! > > > > After a long talk with the finance, I found out > that the > > reason for that is > > that I do not use a dailer, and the CO of Actcom > decided that > > users without a > > dialer should pay more, alto as most of you know, > the > > infurstracture and the > > technical stuff for Radius and other servers that > are working > > in the background > > requires a lot more work (not to mention the > support team > > that need to handle > > very stupid issues such as passowrd lost, > incurrect login > > issues etc) ... > > > > The finance person also mentioned that I need to > pay more, > > because a dialer > > gives them (Actcom) the ability to monitor > connections. But > > on LAN (you all know > > that cables connection is a LAN) you can monitor > activities > > as well, and not to > > mention that a dialer and the rest of the servers > that you > > pass along the way > > makes the connection slower. > > > > Now don't get me wrong, I really like Actcom, and > the fact > > that they support our > > community is a hugh Plus for me, and thats even > before I > > mention their very good > > tech and Linux support etc.. > > > > But I do not wish to have a dialer, And I do not > like the > > fact that the user > > should handle PPP connections for such thing. ADSL > btw also > > does not really > > requires user intervention (L2TP is the protocol > that ADSL talks, and > > theoretically the ADSL router should make the > converting > > between Ethernet and > > ADSL on it's own). > > > > BTW If they will not give a better price, I don't > think that > > I will continue > > working with them next year ... > > > > What do you think ? > > > > Ido > > > > > > > > > ================================================================= > > 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] > > > > > *********************************************************************************** > Information contained in this email message is > intended only for use of the individual or entity > named above. 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