[General] "دو" الإمارات تطلق أسرع إنترنت للمنازل - Du launches fastest internet connectivity for home users

[Majed B.]

Don't be dissing Counter Strike or you'll go on my hit-list buddy! Did
you try CS-Source 1.6?

2009/6/16 Saleh Al-Saffar <saleh_rambo at hotmail.com>:
> I highly recommend using Viva's 3.5G connection. I've been using it for
> almost 6 months now and I'm really satisfied with the service. During peak
> time my download speed is around 200kbps minimum and other times can go up
> to 800kbps if not more. That's I think due to the number of customers they
> have which is much less than Zain's customer using the E-Go service.
>
> I'm not going to wait for the fiber thing to come and cover my area. Kuwait
> government is known to take ages in doing any project. The E-Gov project is
> still far from being done and we've been talking about it since early
> 2000... that's like 9 freaking years! Other countries have done it in half
> that time!
>
> And regarding gaming, if the host is from Kuwait and other players are from
> Kuwait, you'll be automatically playing as fast as WAN can go or close
> enough. At least that's what I experience when playing with players from
> around the Gulf on Call of Duty 4. Actions in the game happens
> instantaneously with like 0.2sec delay if not less which is almost like
> playing on LAN. By the way, why on earth do you still play Couter
> Strike? The gameplay suck, the graphic suck, it is old and it is not even
> fun to play.
>
>
> - Saleh AlSaffar
>
>> From: majedb at gmail.com
>> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:41:09 +0300
>> To: general at oskw.org
>> Subject: Re: [General] "دو" الإمارات تطلق أسرع إنترنت للمنازل - Du
>> launches fastest internet connectivity for home users
>>
>> I'm not happy with e-Go but it's the only viable option for the time
>> being for me, and Zain's network is getting crappier by the month.
>>
>> Do you know how frustrating it is to get disconnected every 10
>> minutes? This happens often between 11:30 PM and 12:30 AM. -- Just
>> right when you're in the middle of a serious discussion or catching up
>> with friends abroad.
>>
>> I was talking to a friend a while back regarding the fiber project,
>> and told him that to boost local traffic and the whole e-Gov festival,
>> ISPs should make their links' speed about 10 Mbps (or more), but cap
>> Internet bandwidth in accordance to the user's subscription. This
>> means that users have 10Mbps (or more) for traffic inside Kuwait.
>>
>> Of course, as I'm using e-Gov as an excuse, I also have Kuwait-wide
>> WAN gaming :D (imagine 300 people playing Counter Strike! LOL!)
>>
>> OK OK .. I'm getting too excited here... must cool down...
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:37 PM, bashar
>> abdullah<bashar.abdullah at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I share your feelings :)
>> >
>> > I never tried e-Go, some people seem happy though never mentioned 7.2.
>> >
>> > Fiber project... last thing I heard is they stopped installing fibers.
>> > If
>> > thats old news, please someone update.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Manar is a pretentious blob. I hate her. And with the news you just
>> >> brought in, I hate her even more!
>> >>
>> >> As for Zain's 7.2 Mbps network speed, they should be sued for false
>> >> advertisement, because 7.2 Mbps is the speed of the connection between
>> >> the e-go device and the cell tower. It has nothing to do with the
>> >> Internet speed.
>> >>
>> >> Heck, the average speed I get is between 50-80 KB/s. Only once it
>> >> jumped to 410 KB/s. Never saw that number again.
>> >>
>> >> Anyone knows how long it would take them to finish the
>> >> fiber-to-the-home project?!
>> >>
>> >> Japan is providing 1Gbps to the home...
>> >> --
>> >>       Majed B.
>> >>
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