ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread Justin
I've been with Interal until now. But they are merging with Bezeq Ben Liumi. I hate BBL, and more than that their quality sucks. Does anyone have a recommendation for a Linux friendly ISP, that doesn't block ports and can provide reasonable, low latency connections? -- There must be a

Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Not enough info.. Low latency connection to where? BBL maybe sucks in service, but they have the biggest pipe in IIX for example (10 Gb) (I'm not trying to recommend them, I'm not their customer).. Some do not block ports, but do use QoS to shove the priority of P2P (torrent, emule) way down...

Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread Justin
fine. - low latency in general - reasonably good VOIP performance - at least 2.5MB asymmetric - no QoS traffic shaping - absolutely no port blocking On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote: Not enough info.. Low latency connection to where?

Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I hardly believe you'll find **ANY** ISP here in Israel which doesn't do traffic shaping due to 2 simple reasons: 1. Bandwidth From/To Israel costs a fortune (thanks goes to Med-1), add it with .. 2. Israel is considered a big big big piracy heaven, which means whatever bandwidth ISP throws to

Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 26, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Justin wrote: I've been with Interal until now. But they are merging with Bezeq Ben Liumi. I hate BBL, and more than that their quality sucks. Does anyone have a recommendation for a Linux friendly ISP, that doesn't block ports and can provide reasonable,

Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 26, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I hardly believe you'll find **ANY** ISP here in Israel which doesn't do traffic shaping due to 2 simple reasons: 1. Bandwidth From/To Israel costs a fortune (thanks goes to Med-1), add it with .. 2. Israel is considered a big big big

Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread Imri Zvik
On Monday 26 October 2009 14:01:52 geoffrey mendelson wrote: Actually I want traffic shaping. I want my VoIP to work. I want my   email. I'd like YouTube to work too, but 012 has not quite caught on   to that. Could you please elaborate? I'm not aware of any issues with YouTube, and I would

Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 26, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Imri Zvik wrote: On Monday 26 October 2009 14:01:52 geoffrey mendelson wrote: Actually I want traffic shaping. I want my VoIP to work. I want my email. I'd like YouTube to work too, but 012 has not quite caught on to that. Could you please elaborate? I'm not

Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread Boaz Rymland
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:45:25 +0200, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 26, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Justin wrote: I've been with Interal until now. But they are merging with Bezeq Ben Liumi. I hate BBL, and more than that their quality sucks. Does anyone have a

Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 26, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Boaz Rymland wrote: True regarding connection (and security is better with router, AFAIK), but not so regarding port 25 outbound comm. Some ISPs block it, as mentioned earlier in this thread. But, I think that a simple phone call to the ISP's tech service

Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread Imri Zvik
On Monday 26 October 2009 14:24:11 geoffrey mendelson wrote: Except for early morning, I can no longer watch YouTube videos. They   run for a few seconds, stop for a while and continue, then they stop   for a while and continue. If I switch to Netvision, they play smoothly. Wierd... Could

Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Imri Zvik wrote: On Monday 26 October 2009 14:24:11 geoffrey mendelson wrote: Except for early morning, I can no longer watch YouTube videos. They run for a few seconds, stop for a while and continue, then they stop for a while and continue. If I switch to Netvision, they play smoothly.

Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread shimi
2009/10/26 Gilad Ben-Yossef gi...@codefidence.com: Just an educated  guess, but I believe Netvision might have an Akamai node hosted there while 012 may  not. Since Youtube uses Akamai as a CDN, the connection via Netvision only foes through the local loop, while in other ISPs it does the