Cellular company as ISP

[Michael Ben-Nes]

Damn they are suckers :)
I defenitly not going consider them after your review of service.
I dl quite a bit of videos ( like ted.com <- recommended! ) or move huge
files around. I also become a bit unrest when SSH crawl :)

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Michael Ben-Nes - Internet Consultant and Director.
http://www.epoch.co.il - weaving the Net.
Cellular: 054-4848113
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Guy Corem <guy at nop90.com> wrote:

>
> Miki,
>
> In the last few months I've used Cellcom unlimited deal with Option
> GlobeSurfer III router, in a reasonable manner ( ~1GB of traffic per month).
> All was well, until today. In the last month, on purpose, I've downloaded
> about ~100 GB through Cellcom.
> I've received the invoice yesterday, and starting from today, the bandwidth
> is about ~150 kbps (before it was ~2000 kbps).
> When changing to other Cellcom SIM (belonging to a different number), I
> receive the expected 2000 kbps. When changing to the "blacklisted" number
> other SIM, I receive the throttled ~150 kbps.
> It's consistent, and doesn't depend on my location.
>
> In the contract I've signed with them, they're stating that if I'll use P2P
> or more than triple of the network average bandwidth per subscriber, they
> reserve the right to throttle me.
>
> It's seem that they're doing exactly that. Tomorrow I'll check with
> Cellcom.
>
> Also, I believe that In the past they've killed DNS queries after starting
> torrent.
>
> Bottom line: if you're planning to consume a lot of bandwidth, use ADSL /
> cables.
>
> Guy
>
>
> 2009/9/23 Michael Ben-Nes <michael at epoch.co.il>
>
>> Hi,
>> What is the quality of a cellular ISP connection compared to an ADSL line.
>>
>> Like:
>> Latency factor that effect SSH like protocols.
>> The ability to consume the full speed capacity.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Miki
>>
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>> http://www.epoch.co.il - weaving the Net.
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