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09
Aug

21:15

“No traffic shaping” my ass

Tags 012, annoying, internet, isp, israel

Yes, they do it. They shape my traffic. They cap my connections, my non port 80 connections mind you, at a crawl.

Sure, this is a 2 Mb/s connection, but that shouldn’t mean my shit should be capped at 5 KB/s. Yes, 5.

My ISP is by the way, 012 “Kavey Zahav”. A tech support rep officially told me that they don’t cap connections. However, they do. The way she wanted to me to check it was (strangely enough) to point me to their own help site which contains a test file. Over HTTP. Over port 80. On their server. Sorry, what? I told her it makes no sense. Her response: “must be the hardware.”

I got sick of tech support’s stupidity at that point, but they haven’t heard the last of me.

Here’s what I checked so far:

SSH to a certain remote machine on default port. Uploads at ~20 KB/s, downloads at about 10 KB/s.
Uploaded a file to dushkin.org. Downloaded via HTTP yields reasonable speeds. FTP however is capped at about 15-20 KB/s or so.
BitTorrent is crawling, enough said.

Exhibit 1:

4 KB/s

6 KB/s

I’ll be talking to tech support tomorrow yet again.

And another thing. Non-israeli websites seem to run significantly slower. For instance, a comparison between the download speed of downloading Ubuntu from a Danish server:

Downloading Ubuntu from a Danish server

As opposed to the exact same file being downloaded from an Israeli server

Clearly no issues

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05
Aug

17:10

Making AZTECH 600E do what Bezeq doesn’t want you to do

Tags internet, israel, technology

So I got me this router, AZTECH 600E provided by my new ISP in Israel. The idiots however figured out that nobody really wants to use anything other than Window$ and put a “dialer” on a CD, which you were supposed to install.

Needless to say, it came only as an EXE.

I spoke to a tech support rep on the phone who said he doesn’t support Mac and that my router is apparently not a router but a modem even though the interwebs disagrees. It’s time for some RL haxx.

And so I casually ask, “by the way, what’s the password for 10.0.0.138?”

“Just type in Admin password Admin.”

Yes, it’s that easy. Admin/Admin is the default password for the Aztech.

The next tech support rep said something along the lines of “I’M SORRY YOU HAVE A MODEM NOT A ROUTER I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW TO MAKE IT INTO A ROUTER BECAUSE THIS CALL IS RECORDED AND IT’S AGAINST THE POLICIES YOU WILL HAVE TO COMMIT TO US FOR 2 YEARS TO GET IT”. I hung up, though I should have just shot him in the face with my laser vision because he was an asshole. That laser vision sure is useful.

The next tech rep I called when I wanted to find out what my password was and also figure out the VPI/VCI values. He told me “kk sry i don’t speak mac lol go talk to these guys” and gave me another phone number. It had nothing to do with Mac, but sure, have it your way, silly tech support.

Tech support went something like “how do i shot web”. The values themselves I found on Bezeq’s website (!!) in another guide for a different router with an incredibly similar GUI. These are the settings I’ve used as they appear in the device’s interface after you click Quick Start:

$Settings for Bezeq\'s DSL connection$

TL;DR: 10.0.0.138. Username Admin, password Admin, click Quick Start, put above info spare the username and password which are meant to be your own.

Enjoy.

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28
Jan

16:25

Why We’re Politically Correct

Tags annoying, forums, internet, society

With all my bitching about political correctess, you may ask yourself, why do we need to be more politically correct online than we are in, suppose, face to face conversations.

This is of course, for a multitude of reasons, I’ll try to describe them, hopefully it will start making sense.

1. The more people out there the more likely you are to offend one of them.

This is very true and very real. If you’re talking to just one person, you’re not likely to offend them, as you’re talking to just one person. Talk to ten people, and the chances of you offending one of them is greater, as we introduce diversity. Introduce more diversity and more people, we become more and more politically correct out of necessity as we increase the scale.

2. Replying is as easy as typing an address to begin with.

“lol u suk im offended” takes less keystrokes than blogging about it, typing up an article or heaven knows what. Thus, feedback is immediate, and quite often stupid.

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