[off] Bezeq NGN - good or bad?

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Oct 14, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Ira Abramov wrote:

> my fellow sysadmins - Nezeq just called one of my client offering an
> upgrade from 5000/500 to NGN 10000/800. They say it only takes a sec  
> as
> their router is compatible. Is it stable and safe by now? should one
> make the switch?



If it only takes a second, they already have it. Sometime in the past,  
when they were not looking, BEZEQ changed their connection to NGN, but  
left the old speed settings. Unless there is some hidden instability  
in the router, it should be exactly the same, except occasionaly faster.

What I have found having two lines, one aDSL, one HOT with two  
different ISP's is that the download/upload speeds outside of Israel  
are influeneced by more factors than just connection speed. With a few  
exceptions, they both seem to connect to the same sites at the same  
throughput. What is limited by the line speed is the agregate speed. I  
may be able to get 150k bytes per second from one site at a particular  
time of day, but I can get two connections to two diffferent sites on  
the 2.5m line and four on  the 5m.

Geoff.
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geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
Jerusalem Israel geoffreymendelson at gmail.com