Internet recommendations

[Geoffrey Mendelson]

Tonight from around midnight until 0:50 both DSL lines and cellular data
went out.

My son thinks something happened we will read about tomorrow on the news.

I think the timing indicates a shift change at BEZEQ and the night shift
did some maintainence.

Geoff.

On Sun, Jul 23, 2017, 14:47 Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:

> 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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>From my tablet please pardon mistakes and lack of replies.
Geoffrey Mendelson
4X1GM/N3OWJ
Jerusalem Israel
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