Notice: Internet Downtime

On the 29th of this month, Kuwait’s MOC will be going through some maintenance to reroute and allocate higher internet traffic through Saudi Arabia.

Nag Telco 2

It’ April 12th, and I got yet another FastTelco SMS! Unbelievable.

I got the chance today to cancel the jum …

I got the chance today to cancel the jumper and apply for a lite DSL account at United Networks. When I went to pay the land-line fees, the grumpy lady behind the desk asked what my relation was to the owner. “She’s my mom.”, I explained with a smile. For some reason she didn’t look very convinced but didn’t ask for an ID anywho. :/

NagTelco

This is my SMS log for the past month or so…

“3baid, all the bittorrent sites are blocked!”

Here’s a list of some yet-to-be-blocked bittorrent sites (Fast Telco subscribers):

• http://www.mininova.org/
• http://thepiratebay.org/
• http://www.gamestorrents.com/ (for videogames)
• http://www.torrentreactor.net/
• http://www.seedpeer.com/
• http://www.zoozle.org/
• http://extratorrent.com/

Could someone using Qualitynet, confirm these please?

Qualitynet DNS Problems?

During the past couple of months, I’ve noticed that Qualitynet users (at least the ones I know) have been having strange connection issues. Randomly, for about an hour or so, P2P networks would be working, but websites would stop loading on their browser.

After looking into it, I figured it was a DNS problem, which makes sense since P2P networks communication is via IP addresses so there is no DNS intervention. Also, local websites (such as this one) or ones hosted in the middle east would work fine.

One way around this is to use OpenDNS (although I couldn’t test it at the time), another is to simply call and complain about their DNS Servers (don’t accept the a-shark-bit-our-cables excuse). If you’re a geek though, you’ve probably memorized all the IP addresses to your favorite websites anyway :P

Unanswered Questions:
How come ISPs don’t have blogs?
Why doesn’t FastTelco have hotspots?