Bezeq's Dropbox imitation

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Dec 21, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Daniel Feiglin wrote:

>  Does anyone
> remember the Internet problems around 11/09/2001? (Incidentally I  
> could
> level the same objection to international web based mail accounts like
> gmail, But that's another story.)
>

I'd worry more about the internet outages when Pakistan tried to block  
YouTube and took down a large portion of the Internet. Or the  
outage(s) when a ship in the Med dropped anchor in the wrong place and  
cut the fiber optic cables to everyone except Israel. We still had  
lots of bandwidth to the rest of the world, but no one was letting us  
use it.

Or the days when every time someone picked up the phone and received  
or made a call outside of the Israel, the internet lines lost 8k bits  
per second throughput. One ISP claimed to have the biggest bandwidth  
to the US, what they did not mention is that it was shared with their  
large telephone business which had priority. Even that was not enough,  
I remember in 2001 when you could not get an ISDN call to the UK at  
3pm on a weekday.

The problem is that while there are multiple points of entry into  
Israel from outside, they probably could be counted on the fingers of  
one hand.

My experience has been that having two separate  lines with 2 distinct  
ISPs does not significantly increase the reliability rate beyond local  
connections. If my connections to my ISPs are working I have the same  
successes or problems getting to a site (or a country) over both of  
them.

What it does REDUCE is the situation when one line into my home from  
the outside world is down. It's become almost impossible to tell with  
the aDSL line now that NGN has replaced it here. The aDSL line I have  
no longer goes from me to the local phone switch, it goes less than  
100 meters to a box which is connected via fiber optic to the phone  
switch. So it is always up, no matter what connectivity it has beyond  
my street.


Geoff.
-- 
Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to misquote it.