ISP recomendation found

[Justin]

I'm a die hard capitalist, I believe you should go with whomever gives you
the best service for the best price.

But Bezeq and Netvision are huge companies, and yet they offer not one thing
more than the small ISPs (those that are left).

I remember being a customer of ACT.com and couldn't have been happier.  The
moment they were bought by BBL service turned to crap.  Connections wouldn't
stay up, VOiP quality declined, and service requests (what few I'd needed
under ACT) took days instead of minuets.

On top of all that ALL larger ISPs in Israel block ports and use traffic
shaping.

It's insane that after I've paid BBL for a connection of a 5Mb that I need
to pay them another 20NIS for a gamers package so that VOiP can work (when
VOiP could work as well on an unthrottled line 1/4 the size).  If they
downgrade P2P traffic, I understand that.  I don't like it, but I understand
it.  But VOiP is not bandwidth intensive standards, and doesn't degrade the
network.  Gamers, even hard core gamers, aren't online enough that they
saturate their slice of the bandwidth.  THE ONLY REASON to downgrade traffic
for VOiP or gamers is to justify taking more money from them.

The large ISPs have every opportunity to offer a superior product. They have
efficiency of scale on their sides.  But at the end of the day small
businesses are still offering a better service, because they don't have the
marketing capacity to simply replace abused customers.




On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Not trying to flame anyone, but Mickey Israeli IS one of the owners of
> > Comm.net.il
> > (see:
> http://www.db.ripe.net/whois?form_type=simple&full_query_string=&searchtext=comm.net.il&do_search=Search
> ),
> > so comm.net.il is very small and one of the owners (or the owner). I'm
> not
> > saying it's a bad thing, but being tiny has some advantages and some
> > disadvantages, for example: you're paying a very high price for your
> > connection compared to what other people here on this list pays, but
> > I definitely understand your reasons.
>
> I would definitely pay more for quality internet access. I am happily
> paying 5₪ more per month to Bezeq Beilleumi per month than I was
> paying to the theives known as Netvision. At Netvision they refused to
> diagnose connection problems, blaming my Infrastructure (Bezeq). Now
> they are suing me for not paying them when they refused to even check
> the connection issues. They want our money, not our business. I would
> rather give someone else even _more_ money who is interested in
> keeping me happy as a lifetime customer.
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen
>
> http://what-is-what.com
> http://gibberish.co.il
>



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