Feedback about HOT as an isp

[Micha Feigin]

It depends on what you are doing, I've been running fine with 2mb/s. 
Gave up on Bezeq when they tried to tell me that I need a faster line 
when I called them to resolve my ssh terminal (text only) connection is 
responding poorly.

Hot were OK in terms of performance (was also using the 2mb/s line 
though), but since I was paying only for internet and phone, no TV, fake 
technicians called me every few months, as well as some visits by thugs, 
telling me that they can see on the router that I'm also using TV 
illegally and if I don't upgrade the line they will sue  (I kept telling 
them that  it's only slightly more feasible than building a Perpetuum 
Mobile to detect a passive TV receiver behind the hot band pass and the 
two phone + internet modems, but it was lost on them).

Can't tell you much about higher bandwidth though, sorry.

Note thought that it would also depend on your internet provider as well 
as their settings, not just hot, as the provider is you bottleneck to 
the actual internet, and they may do traffic shaping or just not buy 
enough bandwidth abroad. I got horrible speeds to the states though the 
provider (forget who it was, sorry), while getting very nice performance 
when using the TAU proxy.

On 08-Mar-14 13:50, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
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> 2014-03-08 12:20 GMT+02:00 Michael Ben-Nes <miki at epoch.co.il 
> <mailto:miki at epoch.co.il>>:
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>     Oops, seems I missed the replies a bit.
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>     Any way. I used to have 50mb but after the storm something got
>     wrong and now Bezeq can supply only 15mb.
>     I checked with peers and it seems the HOT infrastracure in Rosh
>     Pina is excellent. 15mb is by far not enough to any one who work
>     on the net.
>
> You are making me really curious what I have been doing wrong for all 
> these years that speeds above 5mb have been fine for me...
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>     On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 6:11 PM, geoffrey mendelson
>     <geoffreymendelson at gmail.com <mailto:geoffreymendelson at gmail.com>>
>     wrote:
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>         On 1/5/2014 6:01 PM, Michael Ben-Nes wrote:
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>             Hi,
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>             Seems like I need to replace my unstable ADSL line :(
>
>             Can any one tip me how good is the Hot cables 100mb
>             service? stability\speed
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>         If it's 15 megabit or below, you've probably been upgraded to
>         NGN. NGN uses vDSL equipment which can run (poorly) in aDSL-2
>         emulation mode. Instead of informing people of the problem,
>         they just wait for them to call and sell them a faster line in
>         vDSL mode with a vDSL modem.
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>         Geoff.
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>         -- 
>         Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
>         Jerusalem Israel.
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