ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread Erez D
hi i want a new Internet connection for my home. first i thought of trying the cellular companies. any experience with them ? are they good ? i am still connected to bbl+hot. i experience problems in creating a connection. one of every 10 connections doesn't open, and i need to reload the page

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Erez (and all)! On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:10:48 Erez D wrote: hi i want a new Internet connection for my home. first i thought of trying the cellular companies. any experience with them ? are they good ? i am still connected to bbl+hot. i experience problems in creating a

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread Dotan Shavit
Try: http://speed.hot.net.il/script/DownloadSpeed.asp And check your effective bandwidth. Also check packet loss statistics with ping and/or hping. With this information you will be able to get decent support from bbl. # On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Erez D wrote: hi i want a new Internet

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread Erez D
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: Hi Erez (and all)! On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:10:48 Erez D wrote: hi i want a new Internet connection for my home. first i thought of trying the cellular companies. any experience with them ? are they good ?

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread Erez D
i have no problems with download speed my ping is acting strange. it works for the first N icmps (N is a number between 30 and 150, changes every time), then it stops working. i spoke with bbl - they can find no problems although i (bbl+hot) and my mom (bbl+adsl) have the same problem On Tue,

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 12:25:54 Erez D wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: Hi Erez (and all)! On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:10:48 Erez D wrote: hi i want a new Internet connection for my home. first i thought of trying the cellular

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread Erez D
i found the following link: http://www.internet-2.org.il/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%92_%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%98/ don't know how to regard the results though ... On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Geoffrey Mendelson

ipv6 q

2009-04-21 Thread Erez D
hi i can ping www.yahoo.com, but when i ping6 www.yahoo.com - i get unknow host does ipv4 and ipv6 use different dns ? ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread Erez D
btw, disabling ipv6 didn't help either On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 12:25:54 Erez D wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: Hi Erez (and all)! On Tuesday 21 April 2009

: ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
2009/4/21 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com: hi i want a new Internet connection for my home. first i thought of trying the cellular companies. any experience with them ? are they good ? Going back to your original question, Orange has a 5g a month limit, which IMHO is worthless. I don't think they

Re: ipv6 q

2009-04-21 Thread David Ronkin
Sure, it'll take time while both will work ok, read this rfc: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3901.txt ...When the Internet moves from IPv4 to a mixture of IPv4 and IPv6 it is only a matter of time until this starts to happen. The complete DNS hierarchy then starts to fragment into a graph

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread Boaz Rymland
I'm using Nezeq-Intl + Hot with no such issues. But: * I'm connecting via a router that manages the connection for me (I guess I would have still felt it - and I'm not). * maybe talk to them and try to change the connection type - pptp/ppoe/direct/etc. (I was using pptp until a few days and

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hi, first i thought of trying the cellular companies. any experience with them ? are they I have a question regarding the cellular companies internet service: I heard that some cellular companies installed a blocking mechansim for their intenet clients which is called DPI. see:

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Rafi Gordon rafigor...@gmail.com writes: I heard that some cellular companies installed a blocking mechansim for their intenet clients which is called DPI. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dpi And choose Deep Packet Inspection from the options... ;-) AFAIK, this DPI can block voip

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Apr 21, 2009, at 10:23 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: If one uses Skype over GPRS then the cell phone company can do DPI, I suppose. They do get paid for GPRS usage, but a lot of it may be flat rate. In Israel free Wi-Fi is common enough so using GPRS does not make much sense in the first

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread Dotan Shavit
Time to use traceroute to find the dropping node. I'd go for mtr hostname Note that some network components are dropping pings directed to them, but the nodes located after these will still show 0% packet loss. # On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Erez D wrote: i have no problems with download speed