I went for Fast Telco 256kbps connection. I need to find out about their refund policy because it is not as fast as I would like and they have VOIP blocked. I should have went with Quality net I guess. All the ISPs around here seem to have problems though

That speed seems a bit slow for Qnet.

Zajil 512kb:
Download: 549kbps
Upload: 565kbps

I will try it on the FT(512) and Zajil(1mb) connections when I get home.

William:
I am using FastTelco at home; they actually offer more bandwidth than advertised. From my experience, I have been able to get 30-50% more bandwidth than what i paid for.

As for VoIP; I am currently running two vonage-linksys boxes (pap2) at home. They both work perfectly and the line quality is quite good.

I think you should look into another modem and setting up port forwarding for VoIP.

One more time

Zajil(512k):
Last Result:
Download Speed: 643 kbps (80.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 561 kbps (70.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

William: Qnet seems to have the least of problems!

K: It seems that things are working well on your end! I will do more testing in different areas. Let me know when you do the other tests at home and nobody is downloading something!

FastTelco (512k):
Last Result:
Download Speed: 635 kbps (79.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 449 kbps (56.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

Downstream 8,096 Kbps
Upstream 548 Kbps

mwahahahhaa i rock

If you want to compare non-kuwaiti speeds:

Downstream: 25043
Upstream: 15665

Long live fiber (and co-location)

K: thats pretty good for 512K, WHERE THE HELL DID U GET THAT REDICULOUS SPEED! and how much does it cost! hehehehe

ananyah: kiss my ass! that is too much for one person! How bout you share! hehehehe!

I just got Zajil installed at home …

Zajil (1mb):
Download Speed: 870 kbps
(108.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 724 kbps
(90.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

The ridiculous speed is one of my servers in a university; Its for ‘testing’ purposes.

K: I thought Zaijel only offered for corporate accounts. Interesting, your getting 870 kbps while Im getting 693 kbps with 1.5mb connection. I need to see whats going on! I wish we could get fiberoptic straight to the house! I think the one time install would be worth it!

I have fiber optic in my office .. the speed is the same but the latency is amazing (1ms – 100ms). Don’t count on it being much difference in speed; thats all up to the isps (we could go up to 8mb on dsl).

And Zajil is offering residential DSL (same price as Qnet).

K: Ok.. now that makes sense. Zajil, you know what I thought of doing at one point is getting two connections and getting a load balancer and see if it can do wonders and stuff!

Doing that now .. its not as good as i hoped it would be. Then again, my dual WAN router is a bit ghetto.

K: hahahaha! Now thats the truth! I have an old school Linksys that has been working for me, but they are just selling the same one I had before but with a few updates. I have the SRX 400, but the reviews say its good for long range and bad for short range.