Hi, I agree with you, after all we must expect to less from etisalat's great customer service. the connection went back to normal a few days ago, but seems slow again, my modem and wire are innocent too, changed the 2 wires that go to the main terminal and made no difference. may etisalat burn in hell. regards. --- makhack@xxxxxxxxx, UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR. wrote: > Guys, > > With our ubiquitous, sneaky and totally amoral > Etisalat, nothing > happens for no reason. > > If you look closely on their website, you will find > that they have been > running a promotion for AlShamil, a facility that > could make your > surfing much faster... > > How do you think they are going to nudge the likes > of you and me to > subscribe to it and drum up an obscene amount of > revenue? > > By, all of a sudden, quite unexpectedly and totally > by accident, > having a problem with a cable that goes to > Japan....! > > It would take, literally, a flick of a switch to > shut down few pipes in > order to create a congestion and make us think that > we really should > migrate to a faster facility. > > The promotion ends on the 31st of march, by then the > service will > dramatically improves.... > > Makh > > > > > On 08 Mar, 2005, at 8:50, tarek obeid wrote: > > > > > The problem is in alink between here and the > states, at a point in > > Japan , > > they are working on solving it, hope it will > solved soon. No new > > barrier. > >> From: Nasif Kazia <knasif@xxxxxxxxx> > >> Reply-To: nocensorship@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> To: nocensorship@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> CC: pooh12345678987654321@xxxxxxxxx > >> Subject: [noCensorship] Re: connection slow > without proxy! > >> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 05:42:49 -0800 (PST) > >> > >> Pooh, > >> > >> I second your sentiments, dude! > >> > >> i have been facing problems using the ftp myself > (to my site.) And > >> accessing my pop up account also has been > difficult. I have been > >> using > >> yahoo to retreive emails of late. I don't know > what these wierdo's > >> are > >> upto :( And when you approach them with your > difficulties, they > >> either > >> act ignorant, or pretend otherwise. > >> > >> But, you really think Etisalat is gonna surrender > its monopoly? I > >> seriously doubt it, dude. I work for a > government organization > >> myself, and > >> i don't think it will ever happen > >> > >> Cheers Mate > >> > >> > >> pooh pooh <pooh12345678987654321@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> recently i noticed that when downloading by BT, > dcc or > >> ftp without a proxy, that the speed is way too > slow > >> for my 512k connection, usually tops at 16k max, > >> however when downloading from a ftp through a > proxy > >> the connection goes up to 55-50k. > >> I think Etisalat have put some sort of a > "barrier" on > >> all non-proxy connections. > >> at first i thought there was a malfunction due to > the > >> rain (my internet connection socket had bent pins > in > >> it and i didnt know, so i didn't use the internet > for > >> several days), but i think the problem lies > within > >> etisalat itself. > >> can't wait till etisalat's monopoly seizes. i'll > be > >> the first to disconnect from their service as > soon as > >> another isp becomes available. > >> regards. > >> > >> > __________________________________________________ > >> Do You Yahoo!? > >> Tired of spam? 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