Re: Orange as a landline ISP

2009-04-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
I seriously considering Orange's offer of a combo package of some sort of box, cell phone air time and 2.5mbit Internet. From what I understand the Internet part is over your (not included) cable modem or aDSL line. Does anyone have it? Or have Orange as an ISP? Are they Linux friendly? I

Re: HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-06 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:12:14PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Is there a way to combine several usless at some times and not others connections to get a better service reliabilty and still not have to go with SIFRANET (fiber optic connection) and BYNET as an ISP? Here's another idea: connect

Re: HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
My only neighbor with a wireless network has the poor taste to use WPA. :-) http://xkcd.com/538/ http://xkcd.com/416/ http://xkcd.com/341/ -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת

Re: HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
Is there a way to combine several usless at some times and not others connections to get a better service reliabilty and still not have to go with SIFRANET (fiber optic connection) and BYNET as an ISP? Here's another idea: connect to the neighbor's wireless! -- Dotan Cohen

Re: HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-05 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 04:37:39AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: they are all worthless, it mostly depends on what exactly you need from the at the time. Is there a way to combine several usless at some times and not others connections to get a better service reliabilty and still not have to go

Re: HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-05 Thread Amichai Rotman
Another personal war story: I connected to Hot for phone internet and TV services. Had some service disruptions on and off for about a year. They sent me all kind of technicians - all the way up to the Sayeret Menuim... It seems the apartment upstairs (rented by students) had a bad RF cable

Re: HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-05 Thread Ori Idan
Unfortunatly I hear to many stories of how HOT is bad. My girl friend has HOT for TV Phone and Internet, the phone is unbearable during half hour of conversation we had two disconnections. She does not use the internet at home so much but also on the internet she has disconnections. -- Ori Idan

Re: HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
Is there a way to combine several usless at some times and not others connections to get a better service reliabilty and still not have to go with SIFRANET (fiber optic connection) and BYNET as an ISP? There exists such a thing, but you need a PC with at least three NIC cards to do it. Grep

Re: HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-05 Thread Moish
Dotan Cohen wrote: Is there a way to combine several usless at some times and not others connections to get a better service reliabilty and still not have to go with SIFRANET (fiber optic connection) and BYNET as an ISP? http://www.pfsense.org/ -- Moish

Re: HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-05 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/2/6 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com: Note that there is the drawback that some websites don't like when your IP address changes with every request, though! Apparently there is some American ISP that does this as well, and those users have problems with the same sites. Yes, some American

HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
Right now I have a HOT modem and Netvision, which when it works... It also happens to be down as I write this and has been for almost 6 hours. I just left HOT after four years of suffering their constant outages (I had both internet and VOIP telephone). I went to, of all places, Bezeq and I've

Re: HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 03:54:09 +0200 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Right now I have a HOT modem and Netvision, which when it works... It also happens to be down as I write this and has been for almost 6 hours. I just left HOT after four years of suffering their constant outages

Re: HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 03:54:09AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I just left HOT after four years of suffering their constant outages (I had both internet and VOIP telephone). I went to, of all places, Bezeq and I've discovered that Bezeq has improved in the past few years. It is a few (less than

Orange as a landline ISP

2009-02-02 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
I seriously considering Orange's offer of a combo package of some sort of box, cell phone air time and 2.5mbit Internet. From what I understand the Internet part is over your (not included) cable modem or aDSL line. Does anyone have it? Or have Orange as an ISP? Are they Linux friendly? I