Comments on: Fasttelco security issues

By: Hashas

Hashas — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:02:42 +0000

Hai IT Guys,

The Implementing of WiMAX Basestation and Antenna in Some Areas of Kuwait is Still Under Testing by Arabtelecom(Mada Communication).

There will be No use to the Users of ARABTELECOM(MADA COMMUNICATION)

If You ask their Helpdesk Center 1822888 (or) Office 1801888 they con’t answer. They don’t have the answer even the Intellgent Engineers of Arabtelecom.

The customer’s will face the Problems as the same like before.

Because they are still in some Dought’s about the Implementations & Oprerations of WiMAX Basestations.

They cannot solve your Problems immediately.

The customer’s Will face the same Problems creating by Arabtelecom Current Wireless Broad Band Basestations and Antenna’s.

By: mark sutton

mark sutton — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:35:55 +0000

Hi all – I’ve been following this story for itp.net IT news -

I’ve got a statement on the problem from Google, (no luck with FASTtelco though), although Google claim that users couldn’t access other people’s accounts, just a summary page – wondered what people thought of that?

more here: http://www.itp.net/news/512232

be interested to know if the problems with other sites are still ongoing as well

rgds,

By: MBH

MBH — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:07:23 +0000

Rayboy,
Different frequency = WiMAX.
What ArabTelecom uses is the standard 2.4GHz frequency.

Both use point-to-point antennas; that doesn’t make it the same technology.

And yes, they did implement the actual WiMAX.

By: Rayboy

Rayboy — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:14:52 +0000

FT ? and WIMAX? .. just becoz they use the term WIMAX? that doesnt mean they are using the real WIMAX technology. They still following the same concept like arabtelecom, except on a different frequency.

By: MX5

MX5 — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:29:14 +0000

I would imagine that thier Wimax Base Station Unit (BSU) would be connected to one of the POPs or even any of the exchanges, depending on which area in Kuwait that they are covering. This way the BSU would have direct connectivity to their core devices via Fiber cables.

anyway just speculating, thanks for the info.

By: MBH

MBH — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:05:16 +0000

MX5,
As far as I know, all ISPs rent a space from the MOC and put their equipment there. This however does not apply to FT’s WiMAX, as they only rent the fiber cables from the MOC, and keep the equipment at their own locations.

This information was given by QualityNet & FT project managers.

Maybe they fixed the problem by now… maybe.

By: MX5

MX5 — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:29:18 +0000

MBH,
FT is renting space at each MOC exhange and at each HUB/POP, SKB, MSF and TEC, each exchange is connected to its repected POP, for example Hawally is connected to TEC, Ahmadi is connected to MSF and so on, and i think its the same for every ISP or how else would they have connectivity to their dslams and other equipment in each exchange, I would think that The Wimax backbone is only used for the wimax connections because Fiber cables are way more dependable than any wireless solution. As for the problem with the cache, I have an FT and I have tried logging into gmail and amazon and had no problems, I dont have an KFH or BBK account so I cant confirm if there are any issues or not.

Soul, just wondering are you refering to Burgan Bank or Boubyan Bank?

By: MBH

MBH — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:45:54 +0000

I emailed Arab Times newspaper and pointed at the issue. MAYBE that will force FT to fix the problem.

By: MBH

MBH — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:23:19 +0000

K.theKuwaiti,
The thing about Arab Telecom & fiber-based links, is that they’re all using the MOC’s infrastructure and whatever happens to your links at the MOC end, you become under its mercy.

Let’s say that Shuwaikh hub (SKB) had some temporal damage, or an electricity outage (and I feel we’ll have a lot of that fun during summer), all our links will be dead, because the equipment is on the MOC’s grounds.

So far, the only company that doesn’t use the MOC’s end is FT, with its WiMAX infrastructure. FT is rented fiber pairs only to connect between different locations, they don’t rent space to house the equipment at the MOC.

I heard rumors that QualityNet is trying to get license for WiMAX, but I donno whether they’ll be using MOC or have their own thing.

Soul,
Assuming your sources are legitimate, so for a whole day, every FT subscriber can enjoy the exotic experience of venturing into other people’s accounts, and if not exotic enough, even expose their own!!!
I’m getting such an urge to get an FT account and loot all that money sitting there…

By the way, this begs the question: BBK & KFH don’t use SSL in all their pages????!!!!!

By: Soon

Soon — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:58:57 +0000

Mark,

Keep on posting about FT and soon u won’t have a blog to login to ;-)

By: Tan Go

Tan Go — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:27:13 +0000

All the above is very educational!!!
Thank you all / Tahiyyati

By: Purgatory

Purgatory — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:06:14 +0000

I cannót get to it with all this DNS and Cache Mumbo Jumbo going around, but thanks for the offer.

By: Soul

Soul — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:47:47 +0000

Purgatory,

You got your bone now. Bite my arse !

~ Soul

By: Soul

Soul — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:46:30 +0000

K, I guess its G.W.Bush.
This is my best personal guess after seeing all those videos which popped up.

No idea about Bin Laden.

However, sarcasm doesn’t serve a purpose here.
I am honestly trying.

~ Soul

By: Purgatory

Purgatory — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:22:55 +0000

I never knew net companies had “authorities” .