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I really really want to piss and moan. In 2008, I had a WiMAX broadband connection that most of the time was between 2mbps and 5mbps… some days it could reached 7mbps (700 kB/s), we used to pay $80 per month. Due to us moving from house to a house more than once, my dad thought it would be better if we get a 512kbps connection(50 kB/s) for $26 till we make sure we would settle for few years. However, since that day, the internet experience went pathetic.

The first ISP we registered was STC, we picked up the 2mbps unlimited package. The internet barely gets over 70 kB/s at night and much worse at the day, it was horrible experience to downgrade from such a high speed internet to a pathetic one.

A few days before the connection will expire, my dad needed another phone-line to the home at that time, with ordering the phone-line, it came with it a free 265kbps connection for god 3 damns months. I remember that I argued with dad more than 2 hours for trying to convince him to decline that fake ‘free’ offer and buy back the WiMAX. He didn’t. I lived with a 20 kB/s speed for 3 miserably months. I don’t want to talk about it, so moving on.

After the months passed, we went to the WiMAX’s ISP store to renew our package (at that time, we weren’t able to renew via internet), the guy who was renewing told us if we would like to try out their 2.0 WiMAX router, he told us we can buy the 512 kBs package rather than the 2mbps taking advantage that the 512 kBs package don’t currently have a cap on the download speed, so it’s cheap plus higher speed. So we took it, it was SWEET. The speed was amazingly fast, I used to download about 8GB Game/HDVideo in 1 night, or as soon as I view a YouTube video, the whole damn video loads up at the first 10 seconds no matter how huge it’s, the speed was indeed about 700kB/s. It was epic.

Epic until they capped everyone’s 512 kBs routers to 60 kB/s. That day went horrible.

They capped them after we renewed our subscription for 3 months after a day.

Here goes after another sad 3 months, a new ISP came out called ‘Go’, everyone’s was talking about, and how they’re new and perfect. My dad wanted to try them out, so they gave him an offer for the 512 kB/s 3months unlimited package for $148… He took it. -.-’

The first day my pings were between the 400 and 600. The pages would lag a lot, and the internet speed is between 40-50 kB/s.

Second month, the internet dropped to almost 10 kB/s. I could never reach more than 10 kB/s. I contacted them 7 times in 2 days, they always give me the poor excuse

‘Okay, I have edited some settings, please turn off your router for 15 minutes and open it’.

This morning I called them again asking what the heck is going on, they said that they have limited my connection due to excessive downloading… What the F? I have paid $148 for 512KB Unlimited service. Then what’s the value of “unlimited” if I was going to get limited if I downloaded much? To be honest, I only downloaded 2 games, one about 5GBs and the other one about 6. That’s 11! For god’s sake! I used to download almost 400GB when I had the old WiMAX connection!

They never gave me a CLEAR answer on how many downloaded GBs is “too much”. I asked them 2 times a clear question “How many GBs can I download before getting limited?”… Nothing helped.

They told me they are going to lift the limit on 6/18/2010. And the subscription goin to end at 7/27/2010. I can’t wait till the day 27 comes. HOPEFULLY I’ll buy again the WiMAX one.

P.S. If you live in Riyadh, DON’T ever subscribe to ‘Go’ ISP. They suck big time. Go with Mobily WiMAX or ADSL Afaq Shamel 2mbps, they’re the best I can think of.