<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Shachar Shemesh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shachar@shemesh.biz" target="_blank">shachar@shemesh.biz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 01/24/2013 02:44 PM, E.S. Rosenberg
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<pre>When you enable timestamps they don't match so the packet is discarded, this could be due to the ISP fiddling with the packets on the way.
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I know what timestamp is, and what it is used for. I have not, yet,
rebooted to see whether this does not happen when the problem is
dormant. What I told Shimi was that I want as much information as
possible, and since he seems to know a bit about it, I would like to
hear it all.<br>
<br></div></blockquote><div> </div></div>If you want to know it all, I never did manage to penetrate the first-line representative ("What's MTR? send me Windows traceroute so I can't see the instability over time!"). Arguing with customer service is like fighting the Borg. Resistance is futile...<br>
<br>So I solved it the way I know best: If you can't change them, show them you put your money where your mouth is. Just like I did to Orange. I am waiting for the day that most people in Israel would be like that, but unfortunately, that day does not seem close :( We only care about substantially lower price to make a difference... like what was caused by Golan T. Some people not even that (still pay > 100NIS/mo. for even sometimes a LIMITED cell line...)<br>
<br>Now I am connected through another ISP (which funnily enough, uses BezeqInt for Intl' traffic, at least per traceroute, and is actually cheaper...), and the problem is gone[*]. Now you know how I knew you were there...<br>
<br>-- Shimi<br><br>[*] Of course, that may have been sheer luck. It might happen to me again one bright day in the future :) But for now, it probably simply doesn't pass through their QoS engine, probably because the ISP has a fixed bandwidth with them, and they don't really care _what_ passes on the link...<br>
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