Hi Keith,
I`ve been working with an ISP for the past six years and I have the
inside version of the facts. Your comment about "good ISP" and "Malta"
being a paradox is not correct. From my experience different people
have different expectations and no isp is able to cater for all the
different tastes and desires. If you think that this only applies for
Malta then you are wrong.
Broadband limits by Volume started in other countries a number of years
before they started in Malta. Telephone support provided by most large
ISPs in other countries is on expensive pay by the minute phone numbers.
In Malta this has not been the case.
Then again, keep in mind that in other countries, Liberalisation and
real competition in the Telecoms sector has started around 10 years ago.
In Malta we have not yet started for all is still controlled directly
or indirectly by the old monopolies.
At the end of the day, it is known that levels of service in any sector
only improve when real competition is promoted. Government has little
interest at the moment in promoting this for he would be damaging his
own company and those of political friends. As users, I think we
should promote this by not subscribing with the ISPs of the old monopolies.
This way, the non monopoly funded ISPS will grow stronger and be able to
provide better services.
Cheers
Conrad
Keith Vassallo wrote:
Hi Shawn,
IMHO, "good ISP" and "Malta" are quite a paradox. Anyway, I've tried
several ISPs:
Maltanet: Great speeds, but with a 12GB download limit (depends on which
plan you choose)
Waldonet: I was with Waldonet for two months. Phoned for support four
times. Nevery got a reply. Switched to another ISP. (This is just my
experience though, not saying Waldonet have bad support).
Bellnet: They say the speeds are quite good. A friend of mine complains
that he has no idea what limits his bandwidth has, since Bellnet use the
Datastream (ehem, I should say maltanet) lavender service, the last time
I checked. Also, if you want to setup a home server, forget about
bellnet.
Keyworld: No download limits, but you only get decent speeds at night.
I'm supposed to have a 2Mbit connection but download with half-megabit
speeds.
Melitanet, your current ISP: Don't even think about them.
Again, this is only my experience and opinion, your experience may vary.
Keith
On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 06:37 +0100, Shawn Cassar wrote:
Sorry people to jutt in like this. I am new to the list but have been
following linux and it's developments since I was a kid, have 3 comps at
home (including my lappy) running Mandrake only (no dual boot).
I am seeing you talk about isp ping rate, I too am with Melitanet and I want
to change ASAP cause the service and performance is terrible, plus they are
charging me Lm21 per month for nothing.
So, in your opinions which are the best 2 isps right now? (One with download
limits and the Other without).
I have been told to either switch to Bellnet or to Waldonet. Anybody has
experience about any of these 2 during peak hours?
Thanks alot
Waldonet offers unlimited downloads too. A bit on the expensive side
though..
Keyworld offers unlimited downloads, actually (I dont work at Keyworld
hehe).
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 04:08 -0800, Graham Petley wrote:
The response time is quite variable. Recent pings give:
$ ping -c 10 kh.google.com (about 1245)
--- kh.l.google.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received,
0% packet loss, time 9034ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 143.385/188.061/399.220/87.340 ms
$ ping -c 10 kh.google.com (about 12.55)
--- kh.l.google.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received,
0% packet loss, time 9039ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 80.242/85.977/89.495/2.958 ms
In fact, this morning Google Earth, whch was simply not responding
yesterday
evening, was working fine. I suppose 20:45 in the evening is a peak time
to
California. I use Melita Cable as my ISP. I would shift if anyone offered
unlimited downloads, but I don't think anyone does.
My web site is still slow :-(
$ ping -c 10 vlsitechnology.org (about 12.56)
--- vlsitechnology.org ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received,
0% packet loss, time 9019ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 211.454/215.173/222.490/3.495 ms
- Graham Petley
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