tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023991709134950870.post1694815481719441134..comments2009-07-01T11:38:24.449+03:00Redbelthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07338152724455215900noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023991709134950870.post-67658232020404059482009-07-01T11:38:24.449+03:002009-07-01T11:38:24.449+03:00Love the plane analogy, not sure its entirely accurate though. :)<br /><br /> Doubling your speed and reducing the bill by 10 beeds is a huge improvement. But when you compare to Europe and and the UK its clear that the prices are still extortionate.Farishttp://www.classicarabia.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023991709134950870.post-86516579230022917052009-07-01T09:42:35.693+03:002009-07-01T09:42:35.693+03:00Thanks Faris. I&#39;ll grab your last statement:<br />Better but not exactly good.<br />Is this satisfactory?<br />If our football team played better but lost each and every game (Not good), will we be happy?<br />If you take your car to a mechanic complaining of a noise, and receive it later not fixed but with LESS noise, would that be OK with you?<br />If you want to go to the UK, and all the airplane could take you to was as far as Paris (closer, but not there), is that OK?<br />I know many people in Bahrain, the TRA and Batelco will claim that it is better.<br />I claim that it is bull shit.Redbelthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07338152724455215900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023991709134950870.post-7326903381027098112009-06-30T16:41:49.640+03:002009-06-30T16:41:49.640+03:00totally agree that the internet rates are ridiculous. But the fact is, ever since bit-torrent started making up most of the traffic on the internet, telcos all over the world have clamped down.<br /><br />ALL companies that I know of in the UK have either thresholds or packet filtering (or both!) . What&#39;s more, companies such as Virgin will disconnect you (after a warning first) if you download copyrighted material.<br /><br /> As for gaming, I would have thought its only the ping rate that matters as the amount of data that is uploaded or downloaded is usually minimill, its the speed at which that data moves back and forth not the download rate (ie ping rate rather than kbps). But then I haven&#39;t used the device you mentioned. <br /><br />But yeah, Its better but not exactly good.Farishttp://www.classicarabia.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023991709134950870.post-85221797782968630002009-06-24T10:24:30.895+03:002009-06-24T10:24:30.895+03:00We will never get faster internet speeds. maybe in 20 years when everyone have speeds that go up to 100GBPS, MAYBE THEN we&#39;ll get a cheap 100Mb (Megabit not Megabyte so it isn&#39;t MBPS lol!) connection.Ahmedznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023991709134950870.post-12845282262981849572009-06-22T08:45:23.410+03:002009-06-22T08:45:23.410+03:00Totally agreed, as you said, we are happy with the new rates and speeds but it could have been better.Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416738388025187778noreply@blogger.com