Cablenet
| company: | Cablenet |
|---|---|
| website: | www.cablenet.com.cy |
| support email: | info@cablenet.com.cy |
| support phone: | 130 |
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Cablenet is the only Cable TV and Cable Internet carrier in Cyprus. Currently the coverage is limited only to several urban areas. The difference between Cable Internet and ADSL is that unlike ADSL (I-choice, Primetel) that connect you to the internet via the telephone line that is already installed in your home, you connect to Cablenet with a separate coaxial cable that is installed to your home once you purchase the service. Therefore, connecting to the Internet through Cablenet is independent of your telephone carrier. Cablenet also offers an ADSL product which is available at more locations.
Cablenet coverage
Cablenet has a limited coverage. You can find out whether your area is covered by Cablenet by entering your postal code in this form.
Cablenet TV channels
All packages of Cablenet include a number of Cypriot and International satellite television channels. A unique characteristic of Cablenet is that for no additional cost you can watch three different television channels from three different television sets around your home at the same time. If you would like a Cable TV without the Internet you can take the cable/view+ package for €17.90 per month.
Cablenet Internet connectivity
Cablenet has several surf+view (internet + TV) packages as well as talk+surf+view (telephony + Internet + TV) packages. All of the packages below include Internet connectivity as well as several Cypriot and Satellite Analog TV channels. The "Family" and nitro HD+ packages come with both Analog and Digitat TV Channels while the nitro HD+ package offers HD TV channels. All Cablenet prices on this page include VAT.
| Package Name | Downstream | Upstream | Telephony | Deposit | Monthly Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| surf+view 2M | 2Mbps | 512kbps | no | €40 | €20.90 |
| surf+view 6M | 6Mbps | 1Mbps | no | €40 | €27.90 |
| surf+view 20M | 20Mbps | 2Mbps | no | €40 | €40.90 |
| surf+view 50M | 50Mbps | 4Mbps | no | €40 | €71.90 |
| talk+surf+view 2M | 2Mbps | 512kbps | yes | €40 | €23.90 |
| talk+surf+view 6M | 6Mbps | 1Mbps | yes | €40 | €30.90 |
| talk+surf+view 20M | 20Mbps | 2Mbps | yes | €40 | €43.90 |
| talk+surf+view 50M | 50Mbps | 4Mbps | yes | €40 | €74.90 |
| cable/nitro HD+ 100Μ | 100Mbps | 8Mbps | yes | €40 | €99.90 |
| family+ 30M | 30Mbps | 3Mbps | yes | €40 | €51.90 |
ADSL Double Play
Cablenet now also offers Internet and telephony services through ADSL2. The ADSL packages do not include TV.
| Package Name | Downstream | Upstream | Telephony | Deposit | Monthly Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| adsl/talk+surf 10M | 10Mbps | 768kbps | yes | €40 | €34.90 |
Pros and Cons of Cablenet
Pros:
- High Speeds
- Watch three different TV channels at the same time
Cons:
- Limited coverage
- No advanced digital TV options such as video on demand
CABLENET USER REVIEWS
If you have tried the broadband services of Cablenet please write a review about your positive and/or negative experiences.
If your review is based on past experiences please include the time period you have been using Cablenet.
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reviewer: pissa
september 04 2010 10:00am
@washor
re file pos ginete apo tin mia mera stin alli na min exoun bandwidth pros ekso. Afou tin mia mera douleve mia xara ke ksafnika tin epomeni paei sta xalia p exei twra. Idika ama skefteis oti twra mia terastia maza foititon exei figei pros eksoteriko ke peftei pio ligi xrisi.
Exei tin logiki tou afto p les an den exoun anoiktes unlimited simfonies me tous paroxeis tous pros ta ekso ke eftase to limit tous k twra tin travame mexri na perasei to xroniko orio tis simfonias tous. En na ithela polla na mathw ti simvenei. Isos kapios na epikinonisei me tin ipiresia prostasias katanalotwn?
reviewer: washor
september 04 2010 10:23am
To thema ine pos skepsou 2.6 gbits pou exoune me ton kosmo pou exoune eprepe na exoune toulaxiston 5 gbits i primetel pou exei 5 gbps pros eksw paei telia kai to ping ine arketa kalitero apo tin cablenet kai otan pesei to link gia paradigma pros eksw ine thema leptwn na to fitaksoun ante oron edw exei 6 meres i ipothesi kai paei persi ixame ta idia gia 3 mines.
reviewer: Bob
september 04 2010 07:46pm
It seems Cablenet's infrastructure is fine but for some reason they do not handle requests correctly.
Using a proxy server or an anonymizer helps to circumvent Cablenet's compromised "service".
reviewer: player1024
september 05 2010 06:20am
re paidia thelo kapios na mou dosei ena link me picture ton outputs tou modem kai tou set top box tous an mporite sas parakalo.
episis oso afora ta low speeds, molis empike to LTV 3PLAY kai ekamnan upgrades apo oso gnorizo. Ipomoni kai tha ine ola kalitera.
reviewer: DelBoyM
september 05 2010 09:28am
I have been with Cablenet here in Limassol for 2 years and had no real technical problems until one week ago. Great fast connections with no traffic shaping, etc. Brilliant.
NOW IT IS TERRIBLE!!!
Some sites are fast eg Facebook, Youtube, others eg UK news site such as the BBC or Daily Mail rarely even loadable!!
Speedtest.net when I can load it indicates I get a speed of approx 0.02 Mbps to London and 0.10 Mps to New York.
Downloads I am lucky now to get 0.10 Mbps. This service on a subscription package of 6.00 Mbps for "unlimited internet" is just plain unacceptable.
As someone else suggested it is a request problem. Pings around the world are fast, but certain places as soon as you try to download actual packet streams of data, which is kind of what one uses the interet for(!!!) just do not complete but quite simply get lost!!
My friend elsewhere in Limassol has a similar problem. I have tried multiple computers and devices so it is not computer related. Tech support say "we are working on the problem...." but after one week have clearly got nowhere, and seem unable to describe the actual problem (blaming CYTA now??? even though at work my CYTA connection is perfect)
I doubt they have done anything this weekend, whilst we all suffer and pay them their money.
I am very close indeed to terminating my contract and switchng provider, and will tell them this tomorrow. Plus requesting my moneny back for "failure to deliver"
I would suggest others threaten likewise as if all their subscribers threaten to leave this might be the only way to get them to actually try and fix something. I have zero confidence in their engineers nw.
To me, my internet is now barely usable, to the point of throwing this computer through the window!
Not happy.
I would be delighted if others here could also post their experiences of the last week. Thanks.
I think we have to work together on this.
reviewer: barney99
september 05 2010 10:58am
@DelBoyM
Yeah been having the same problem since last Sunday.
And I only signed up 2.5 weeks ago.
I ve already emailed them requesting to advise when its going to be fixed.
As you can imagine they havent replied.
On top of that today I realised their TV SIGNAL has also deteriorated and there is a lot of noise in the picture
Anyone else noticed that?
reviewer: washor
september 05 2010 03:34pm
cablenet is being fucked and their company ma pio koroidevw ti company den exoun tounton titlo para mono to kotsiatisnet,pesame thima apatis tou kotsiatisnet parolafta ine nea texnologia tora irthe stin kipro perasame kalodia mesa apo ton kotsiati gia kalitiro internet elateeeee... 
reviewer: DelBoyM
september 05 2010 10:54pm
Just to prove it is not a fault in London, I am at work now on a 2Mbps CYTA line and get a wonderful straight 2Mbps connection to London (surprised even me it was that good!!) and a 1.3Mbps to New York, so the faults are not elsewhere, but clearly a Cablenet routing problem!!!!
Unfortunately I can not read Greek so can not understand some of the other comments above.
TV seems normal quality to me I think, except maybe I am having to reboot my digital decoder slightly more often these days? It is never a great picture on a blown up LCD TV anyway, as a lot of compression is used on many of the channels. But it is the internet that is the problem.
Plus my personal wireless router went wrong 2 weeks ago, and I had to reset and reprogramme, but now just cannot get it back the way I had before, despite some experience in doing this. Is this Cablenet or me? I now think clearly Cablenet.
Note my speed tests were also done without the wireless router, so this is not the problem either.
Can anyone give me an interpretation of what our Greek users are saying above, in rough summary..... I am very close to leaving Cablenet now. See what they say today.....
reviewer: heshen
september 05 2010 11:37pm
No change since I last posted. As Bob mentioned, you can use any anonymizer/proxy service to bypass Cablenet's throttling (which is basically hammering everything resembling to a file download on port 80, randomly including regular web page downloads, and apparently regardless of the time).
I already had my own VPN, but I imagine any proxy/Tor/I2P/whatever works too. It's annoying, yeah, but it's a workaround. Can't do anything about it since Cablenet's Service takes priority over their customers (cf Terms of Service).
Well, aside from that, everything works fine. Just got full 10 MBps from Usenet earlier. Let's hope they get this fixed soon. I don't care if they slow traffic down, throttling and QoS are understandable, but they should keep it usable at least.
Oh, and no problems with TV here.
reviewer: georget
september 06 2010 01:04am
Εγώ τις τελευταίες μέρες δεν έχω σχεδόν καθόλου internet. Μέρα με την μέρα η κατάσταση επιδεινώνεται.
Τώρα είμαι στο ψάξιμο για άλλο ISP γιατί όταν χρειάζεσαι το internet για την δουλειά σου δεν έχεις την πολυτέλεια να έχεις μέρα παρα μέρα internet.
Το αστείο τις υπόθεσις είναι ότι ανακοίνωσε η LTV internet μέσο Cablenet.