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How Slow Internet in Lebanon Is
This is how slow the internet in Lebanon is. We rank 165 in download speed and 175 in upload speed among 178 countries. Thanks to Lynn and Poupi for laughing with me about this today! It’s no laughing matter though; it’s pretty pathetic. Test conducted on http://www.speedtest.net. Click on the image to enlarge.
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about 1 year ago
u just knew ?
this fact has been eating me alive since i-can’t-tell-u-when
about 1 year ago
and India is at 134!
about 1 year ago
Mireille, ma ad ma el internet is slow. la halla2 la woslit inna ta3moul el test.. bleh
3am ilkoun, we should protest. take it to the street. we can make fun games, run from downtown to gemmayze and beat uploading a 10mb video to youtube!
about 1 year ago
@liliane, we definitely should protest… everywhere!!!
about 1 year ago
Good to Know Romania, Republic of Moldova and Aland Islands (whatever Aland Islands are… never heard of them) are in the top 10 ! Hurray ! Anyway I can tell you that his is correct as I live in Romania and The advertised speed is 26 and 28 Mbps on both biggest ISPs in the country. The real speed is more like 22 Mbps in the first case (so it’s a 4Mbps difference between advertised and real) but I guess this depends on the location, the quality of the building’s wiring infrastructure and the load of the network. So SpeedTest is actually quite right but let me ask you, what kind of connection is there in Lebanon with such a low bandwidth ? Are you still running Dial-up Modems ? Those are like banned in Romania.
about 1 year ago
I was so inspired by your post, I posted something similar. I gave credit to the original, of course
http://moudz.blogspot.com/2010/06/just-how-slow-is-lebanese-internet.html
about 1 year ago
Two countries, one border- Israel and Lebanon.
look over the differnets..
Lebanon- poor, suffering bleeding country, no rules nor order.
in the other hand Israel, whealthy country, well function economy. why???
Lebanon could be the swiss of the middle east, but arabs and the desire for achievement can’t stand togather.
about 1 year ago
@Arik
At least we are not Israel
about 1 year ago
Hehe! Nadine we’ve got ourselves a nice little zionist racist troll. He probably doesn’t want to hear that oppression and hand outs from the US and EU are the only reasons israel has an economy.
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It’s nice to see that zionists don’t miss a chance to express their racism. Lebanon is one fucked up place, but as you say Nadine at least it’s not israel
about 1 year ago
Maybe it’s true that the arab brothers haven’t stood together til now ~ but where would israel be without the $billions in aid and arms it receives from the u.s. every year?
Which country besides israel does the u.s.protect when it breaks international laws?
What about the 1948 resolution 194 that allowed Palestinians the ‘right of return’ or compensation? What has israel paid for land taken from the Palestinians in these last 60+ years?
israel has always had the upper hand.
about 1 year ago
sorry didn’t mean to be so off topic
about 1 year ago
YESSSSSSS , we should protest. ana mn lebnen w 3ayesh bi lebnen bass mettar 2esta5dem VPN from USA to surf merte7 3al web. L connection 3ende 0.256kb/s which is one of the best cons in Lebanon.
I am suffering with it, I AM DIEING WITH IT.
I got a VPS ( virtual private server: search on google to find out what is it ) and i have like 7mb/s speed there.
But what is funny that i can’t use it. Why ?/???
because of my connection , the server ( which is an online pc (using Windows server ) loads slow to me because of my connection. Walla beddi 2etrok lebnen mn wara l connection . Bi usa 100mbs bi 60$ w ana 3am bedfa3 30$ 3a 0.256kbs . Bi UAE 12mbs bi 8$ . Bi Tunisie 8mb bi 50$ . At least 3melona metel Tunisie. Great BLOG nadine keep it up w yaret 7ada yesma3na !!
about 1 year ago
Lebanon is= hezbollah=stoled=not orden=contamination from the car=no have car by ecodiesel= cars are 5000cc!incredible=1 dollar is 1500LL incredible=not produced nothing=crazy driver=taxidriver killer=no road=no way=no elettricity=no political stability=racist=doble face=no green area= expensive cost from mobile and internet connection is very very low=dont respect the trademark.This is the lebanon=========is SHEAT
about 1 year ago
Everywhere I go the internet just rapes Lebanon, it’s so sad I can’t even open two tabs. I can’t watch vids properly, can’t do anything! Faster internet would probably create more jobs.. seriously
about 10 months ago
Man when I came back to the usa, i was reborn again.. everywhere in lebanon internet sucks ass. I swear when i first got on my computer here i thought it was dream i was saying to myself theres no way internet this fast could actualy exist…fuck lebanon lebanon will never become a country its a fucking shithole how do you expect people to do business in lebanon i don’t know..if it take 1 hour to do online work that uusally takes 5min in the usa…not mentioning cell phone charges you have to cut down you r convo from 10 min to a 59 sec. so that u dont end up payin hundreds of $…electricity shits: u get 6 hours of ON and 6 of OFF..traffic is the most fucked up thing you’ll experience…i can keep going forver
about 7 months ago
DUDE, fuck this country. Just fuck this country. There’s nothing. compare it to other countries. I CANT FUCKING PLAY MY ONLINE GAME. WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT FUCK LEBANON IN THE ASS A BUTTSEX FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK LEBANON FUCK YOU POLITICS FUCK ELECTRICITY FUCK TAXI JUSTT FUCK THIS PLACE.