2008/10/28 Geoff Shang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I've only been in Israel for 18 months. My wife and I once again find > ourselves in the market for an ISP. > > I work in Internet radio and have to have decent throughput to the US on > non-standard ports. 012 and Bezeqint Standard seem to prioritise standard > ports and cripple others, 012 extremely so (FTP and MP3 streaming on ports > 8550 and 9550 were basically useless). > > We're just trying Netvision and all seems fine except FtP downloading is > painfully slow (passive mode makes no difference) and FTP uploading is not > what it should be. > > We've not tried Barak yet (even though Netvision and Barak have merged, they > seem to still use different infrastructure). > > The only service we've found to be constantly good is Bezeqint's Gamer's > package which we feel is too expensive. It's our feeling that Bezeq cripple > their regular package so that those who are serious about net access have to > pay more to get it. > > Are there any other ISPs? Our Bezeq contract is up on Thursday so this is a > bit urgent. > > Geoff. >
There was a great ISP called Actcom until last year when Bezeq purchased it. Talk to Bezeq and see if you can get the level of support that us ex-Actcom customers get. I doubt that there is officially any difference, but I whenever I get an idiot script-reading support girl, I simply mention Actcom and the call is diverted to Alex or another ex-Actcom superhero. As for your ports usage, if you are a jerk about it you can get your way. Let's just say that I am paying 39 or 49 NIS per month (I forgot which) and I have a static IP address. It's all possible so long as you play the nice-guy rude-guy routine with them. The only problem is that you can only do that after you are already a customer. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
