I have a DSL 256K subscription and should really thank God that I was an old subscriber and managed to save my broadband connection as an ordinary Home user! You ask why, I tell you. Following a ridiculous sort of law established in 2006, it became all of a sudden totally forbidden for the home users to have internet speedier than 128K!!!! But wait a minute, you may also laugh your heads out more when you learn it's recently announced that a 56K internet connection is more than enough for Iranian users needs and this is out of mere generosity that they are also provided with a 128K connection!!!

OK, now you may say it's not that much bad after all but it is when you exclude some factors such as high prices and awful connection speed quality. I, as a 256K user, am experiencing a speed equal to that of a dial up! Only very early in the mornings and pretty late at nights, when the network traffic is not at its peak I can have an acceptable speed.

Also it seems that the recent non-stop power failures occurring day and night due to the electricity shortage is worsening the situation even more by burning out the ISP's delicate electronic devices.

Poof, just check my ping for yahoo.com today and see for yourself what quality services are delivered and you can do nothing about it but signing petitions to which no authority pays a single attention (like this one: High Speed Internet Connection Is One Of Requirmenet Of Iranian People ) :

Pinging yahoo.com [68.180.206.184] with 32 bytes of data:

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Ping statistics for 68.180.206.184:
Packets: Sent = 55, Received = 41, Lost = 14 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 336ms, Maximum = 390ms, Average = 348ms