Internet recommendations

[Amichai Rotman]

I am very happy with Triple C's Triple @ 40Mb.

Their Internet is fast and stable and their service is quick and
professional.

I bought my own VDSL2 MODEM/Router (A TP-Link 9970WD I think).

Amichai.

2017-07-20 0:48 GMT+03:00 Rabin Yasharzadehe <rabin at rabin.io>:

> I can't recommend XPhone, I tried them just after the "רפורמה הסיטונאית"
> started, and my VPN connections  were dropping constantly, I retuned to BBL
> after 2 days, and I'm with them ever since. over the past 5 years i think i
> had one issue with them, it was seems they were hijacking DNS traffic, my
> router is configured to use Google Public DNS servers (8.8.8.8) and so all
> my machines in the LAN, but some direct query's were failing (or not
> returning a consistent result), so eventually after having a long
> conversation with the LEVEL1 and then LEVEL2 support I find out that they
> enabled some "CyberWall" service on my account, so I requested to removed
> it, and I have no problems ever since.
>
> my 2c.
>
> --
> Rabin
>
> On 19 July 2017 at 11:18, sara fink <sara.fink at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Geoff,
>>
>> I am connected to xphone and bought myself a modem-router with vectoring
>> support for faster speeds. I bought from yad2 tp-link
>> TD-W9970
>> <http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-15_TD-W9970.html>
>>
>> xphone are ok. I pay 69nis/month
>>
>> just pay attention  to whom you pay the money, because there is a
>> difference between the payment even for the same deal. If you pay to bezeq
>> it's more expensive. If you pay to xphone it's 69.  Now I think they have a
>> deal of 89 nis with free installation.
>> If the installation in the apartment is done and you don't need a visit
>> from the bezeq technician then start directly with xphone. If you need the
>> installation the visit of bezeq technician will cost you something (or just
>> even opening something in the box outside the house). So in this case if
>> you want to free technician/installation you should first start paying to
>> bezeq for a month or 2 (depends on the deal) and then switch paying to
>> xphone or other ISP that you prefer. Nasty game unfortunately.
>> .
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Geoff Shang <geoff at quitelikely.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks everyone for your recommendations, both on list and off.  I
>>> really appreciate them all.
>>>
>>> Firstly, it seems Unlimited is not available in our area, so that's no
>>> longer a consideration.
>>>
>>> We contacted Bezeq today about their offerings, and they mentioned a new
>>> business-class service called Secure Internet (in Hebrew).  It's 50/5 mbps
>>> as opposed to the regular 100/3 mbps, and is a good deal more expensive,
>>> but comes with certain service guarantees (this is a business service).
>>>
>>> You can use it with any ISP, but they recommend Bezeqint, Tripple C or
>>> Xphone.
>>>
>>> I recall hearing good things about Tripple C, possibly from here, and I
>>> also got a recommendation about them just now from a lister.
>>>
>>> We are tempted to go with this Secure Internet and Tripple C.  I haven't
>>> been able to find anything about this secure thing online, and would be
>>> interested to know if anyone here knows anything about the service,
>>> particularly its technical aspects (you can't ask sales reps this sort of
>>> thing).
>>>
>>> Apparently this service uses different equipment (they said something
>>> about Checkpoint).
>>>
>>> Also thanks for the info re third-party modems/routers.  I wasn't aware
>>> this was an option (I've had no luck finding VDSL modems in the past), so
>>> will definitely look at this.
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>>
>>> Geoff.
>>>
>>>
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