Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-28 Thread Shahar Dag
within gmt+2:00 limits , try Athens or Cairo. end of quote - Original Message - From: Ariel Biener [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: El-al, Netta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux-IL linux-il@linux.org.il Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 11:52 PM Subject: Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-28 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:36:47PM +0200, Shahar Dag wrote: I am posting here an answer from a similar thread on the Technion's mailing list. I think it is relevant However, the CORRECT answer is to find a timezone editor. There are several and Microsoft themselves used to publish one. It

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 01:19:57PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:36:47PM +0200, Shahar Dag wrote: I am posting here an answer from a similar thread on the Technion's mailing list. I think it is relevant We're in the wrong thread, right? This thread

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-26 Thread El-al, Netta
] Sent: Mon, September 26, 2005 12:13 AM To: El-al, Netta; Linux-IL Subject: RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more On Sep 25, 14:28, El-al, Netta wrote: } Subject: RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more that was a very nice and detailed email but the bottom line is: the other isps are now

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-26 Thread David Randelman
-David Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 9:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: El-al, Netta; Linux-IL Subject: Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more Hi, On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:13:24AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 25, 14:28, El-al, Netta wrote: You also had a static IP. As far as I

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-26 Thread David Randelman
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ariel Biener Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 10:11 AM To: Yedidyah Bar-David Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; El-al, Netta; Linux-IL Subject: Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more On Monday 26 September 2005 10:26, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-26 Thread amir
On Sep 26, 10:26, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: } Subject: Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more Hi, On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:13:24AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 25, 14:28, El-al, Netta wrote: You also had a static IP. As far as I know the low prices of the other ISPs don't

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:25:36PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 26, 10:26, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: } Subject: Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more 3. Even though routers are tend to connect 24x7, yet with dynamic IPs there is still a need for significantly less IPs. Care

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-26 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Amir, First, regardless of how satisfied the Linux-IL members are with your answers, I would like to thank you for treating the matter seriously enough to personally subscribe to this list and participating so actively. I hope that as a compensation you are getting some useful feedback from a

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-26 Thread amir
On Sep 26, 15:27, El-al, Netta wrote: } Subject: RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more look, i'm not accusing u of fraud or anything. i know what the written agreement says. *but*, i am accusing u of misleading me. your representatives basically implied (not promised) that i would be getting

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-26 Thread Ariel Biener
On Monday 26 September 2005 12:06, El-al, Netta wrote: so you think that customers should pay double prices to their favorite businesses in order to keep them in business. that's not what capitalism and competition is about. hey, if you're a little business and then a bigger business starts

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-26 Thread Ariel Biener
On Monday 26 September 2005 15:27, El-al, Netta wrote: Hello, Please stop posting the whole thread in your mail, it is uselessly long, and against the list etiquette. Secondly, please stop using this list in your piss fight against Actcom, as we're not your rant amplifiers. I think we

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-26 Thread Ariel Biener
On Monday 26 September 2005 21:06, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: By the way, as quite a few others on this list I use my Internet connection at home to connect to my employer's LAN over VPN. It was my employer who insisted on a no-dialer setup because the protocols dialers use (L2TP, PPTP) interfere

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-26 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ariel Biener [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What VPN do you have that is affected by the link layer ? I had no problem using either PPTP or L2TP VPNs, or IPSEC VPNs from either Cisco, Checkpoint and the free projects over either PPPoA or PPPoE, with dialer and everything. None of the above ;-)

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-25 Thread amir
confirmation or error messages. So definitely something in this listar is bogus. I hope that it will not handle the same further mail from me. Amir On Sep 24, 22:00, Michael Vasiliev wrote: } Subject: Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more On Saturday September 24 2005 08:00, Shachar

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-25 Thread amir
On Sep 24, 4:18, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: } Subject: Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more On ה', 2005-09-22 at 10:41 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: The strange thing is that for some reason, getting this sort of dialer-less setup required fighting with the cable company. Actually

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-25 Thread Uri Bruck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The copy you got was my first try, before I was subscribed to the list. I then subscribed to the list and posted my message *TWICE* more (second time after I saw that the first one didn't appear for much time). My mail log says iglu mailer got it fine (it said ok)

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-25 Thread amir
On Sep 25, 22:15, Uri Bruck wrote: } Subject: Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The copy you got was my first try, before I was subscribed to the list. I then subscribed to the list and posted my message *TWICE* more (second time after I saw

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-25 Thread El-al, Netta
Cc: Shachar Shemesh; Ilya Konstantinov; Nadav Har'El Subject: Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more [snip]   Our ADSL and Cable deals are like many similar deals of other ISPs, in that they contain an initial period of low price (now typically for 6 or 12 months, depending on the deal

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-25 Thread amir
On Sep 25, 1:19, Alex Shnitman wrote: } Subject: Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more I am sorry to hear that your feeling was that we treated you as an ISP terrorist. I will validate our customer service people make sure the users understand that this is not anything personal

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-25 Thread Alex Shnitman
I am sorry to hear that your feeling was that we treated you as an ISP terrorist. I will validate our customer service people make sure the users understand that this is not anything personal, and that they didn't do anything abusive or not according to the contract, but it is only a

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-25 Thread Tzahi Fadida
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 9:22 PM To: Ilya Konstantinov; Nadav Har'El Cc: Linux-IL Subject: Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more On Sep 24, 4:18, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: } Subject: Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more On ׳

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-25 Thread amir
On Sep 25, 22:46, Tzahi Fadida wrote: } Subject: RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more Just wanted to point out, that if a user is smart enough to hack the modem to remove the bandwidth limits he is smart enough to reprogram the MAC address (a feature that is not uncommon on pro modem/routers

Re: OT: prices of bandwidth [was: Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more]

2005-09-25 Thread amir
On Sep 25, 8:38, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: } Subject: OT: prices of bandwidth [was: Re: Actcom without a dailer costs m Just a comment on a topic raised. Not specific to Actcom. [...]   So sometimes we cannot give a large enough discount off our official prices (as published in our web site or

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-25 Thread amir
On Sep 25, 14:28, El-al, Netta wrote: } Subject: RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more that was a very nice and detailed email but the bottom line is: the other isps are now giving very low prices that stay low and don't change after a certain period. when i first signed up with actcom

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-25 Thread Random Penguin
Some other companies are not able to find the traffic of their customers due to technical difficulties. This is going to get changed. We plan to solve the traffic issue of free software users by our new project of a near-real-time detailed traffic analysis per user, plus establishing big

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-24 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Saturday September 24 2005 08:00, Shachar Shemesh wrote: [skipped] On a totally different note, I, as it seems some other people as well, forwarded this thread to Actcom's CEO. He sent us back an email saying that he tried to send a reply, but the reply never appeared. Could the list

OT: prices of bandwidth [was: Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more]

2005-09-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Just a comment on a topic raised. Not specific to Actcom. On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:37:08 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:   Our ADSL and Cable deals are like many similar deals of other ISPs, in that they contain an initial period of low price (now typically for 6 or 12 months, depending on the

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
ik wrote: I myself can not see or understand any reason why as a customer I need to be interested that the ISP have any issues with the cables companies. Maybe I can shed some light on the use of dialers in cable modems. Abroad, there is no such thing. You hook up your computer, you get an IP,

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005, ik wrote about Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more: In cables, it seems that without a dialer, the cables company controls your connection, and with one, the ISP control it. I have a cable connection, without a dialer. Because cable clients are offered a choice of ISPs

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-22 Thread David Randelman
will still be limited. -David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nadav Har'El Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:41 AM To: ik Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Linux-IL Subject: Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more On Thu, Sep 22, 2005, ik wrote about

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote about Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more: The network infrastructure is such that if you connect via DHCP, your cable operator needs to know which ISP you belong to. They then allocate an IP for you from that ISP's IP pool, and you are connected

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote about Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more: The network infrastructure is such that if you connect via DHCP, your cable operator needs to know which ISP you belong to. They then allocate an IP for you from that ISP's IP pool

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-22 Thread Alon
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ik Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 6:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux-IL Subject: Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more Hi, I myself uses cables, but dialers are a hoax (at least for customers). In ADSL

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, I had the same problem, but not with the money issue. When i upgraded my Internet line, they automatically moved me to dialer. All my body was shaking from anger ;) I called them and fought for my right to continue with DHCP. I finally got it, but a bitter taste still floating in my mouth. I

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread El-al, Netta
this is what i have to say about actcom: last year i got sick of bezeqint's crappy service and their hanging up on me every time i uttered the word linux so i switched to actcom. they were a little more expensive but offered me a deal for a half a year for fifty something shekels for 1.5M.

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Maxim Kovgan
Ido Kanner wrote: Hi list, Recently I updated my 4 years old account in Actcom (this is my 4th year). After watching the price of the account in my office, I found out that I pay a lot more for a lot less. That is I pay 760 NIS for 750 without a dialer, while at work we pay a lot less for a

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread David Randelman
. (IMHO) -David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Shnitman Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:00 PM To: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more Same story here. I signed up for a year, and after the year

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005, David Randelman wrote about RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more: have no contractual limit on my usage, that I paid extra to increase my upload to 150kbps and to be fair, I don't think 20GB for 3 months (both TX and RX) is abusive of the service. What's strange about

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread El-al, Netta
Subject: RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more After being with Actcom for almost 8 years even when their bandwidth was crappy, the same things recently happen to me with them- they claimed that in 3 months I downloaded 20GB of Data and that according to that I should be paying them

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
El-al, Netta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this is what i have to say about actcom: last year i got sick of bezeqint's crappy service and their hanging up on me every time i uttered the word linux so i switched to actcom. they were a little more expensive but offered me a deal for a half a year

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:59:57AM -0700, Alex Shnitman wrote: Same story here. I signed up for a year, and after the year ended they told me I have too pay 2000 NIS for the next year (that's 166 NIS a month!) because of high bandwidth usage. So I guess that's what they need the monitoring

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's strange about these stories is that they appear to complain about usages which don't appear extreme at all. 20 GB for 3 months is just 2.5 KB/s (20 kbps), an amount that even a modem user could use (say, connected 8 hours a day). If you're not

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:06:51PM +0300, El-al, Netta wrote: btw, i asked them why they care how much bandwidth i use and they said something about them paying netvision for the bandwidth usage... strange... are they basically using netvision's service and charging users to be the

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Random Penguin
Hi list, I am hoping that somebody from Actcom themselves is reading this list and will give us some facts. I personally have been very satisfied with the service I have received from them for the last 2 years. Their presence at August penguin contradicts the claim of some that they are no

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Alon Altman
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Random Penguin wrote: Packets sent to apple.com,microsoft.com,ibm.com,fbi.gov all go via netvision (fbi.gov is only five hops, which is a little spooky) Your data is faulty... All these are hosted in Israel via akamai or similar services. Alon -- This message was

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Peter
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, El-al, Netta wrote: btw, i asked them why they care how much bandwidth i use and they said something about them paying netvision for the bandwidth usage... strange... are they basically using netvision's service and charging users to be the go-between? (oh, and btw, i

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread ik
Hi, I myself uses cables, but dialers are a hoax (at least for customers). In ADSL instead of making the modem/router of ADSL to speak ADSL and Ethernet, it speaks only ADSL, and the dialer make the talking of ADSL and Ethernet for you. In cables, it seems that without a dialer, the cables