Ashokjp

Firstly, let me tell you bsnl has doubled limits on all plans, there are plans giving 4 and 8gb space at reasonable rates.And also in my case, i download gb's movies and all each month, i was indeed on a unlimited plan earlier. But when checked data usage, leaving night unlimited timings, my usage comes to around few gbs only (whereas my total download exceeds 10gb each month) That would be your personal preference, whereas majority need speed than sticking on to a term unlimited. Where people can schedule hefty downloads to the night scheme and do the urgent with standard plans, 2mbps suits always. You said you download games etc?. why cant u think of scheduling it to night download. You dont have to be awake at that time. Just schedule your proggie to do it. Its all the way how you take it. Just that you plan your schedule right and you can make your way out. Everything doesn't come right to your way as you need it. You ought to make one step from your side too. If you need to have that speed at an affordable rate, then you need to compromise your schedule. Else if you cant spare time, you shouldn't be compromising the tariff. If you still cant adjust to it, go for a better stuff that might be more costlier. 256 kbps and 128kbps unlimited are all given on tata indicom broadband with rates from some 800rs. if u need 512 take 2 connections and combine it. You need to choose from your money or schedule. Regarding the unlimited upcoming tariff, BSNL has proposals for upgrading 256 unlimited to 512 and airtel has plans to shift to 2mbps.. If you are lucky u might be getting that.

Havent you read this topic? Dont you think at least one need 2mbps reading this topic ? Your view comes under a fraction of people who arent interested in much use of internet. Apart from that people just need more speed. Hi, I also would like to make a point just providing 2 MBPS wont do any good until and unless they provide 2 MBPS with unlimited upload/download..... U can take a poll on this topic right now people would vote for unlimited 128/256 speed with unlimited upload/download bcoz they know BSNL will never offer 2 MBPS with unlimited upload/download.... so buddy i am realistic not day dreaming mate... regards rajiv I wouldnt mind when there is a fact that bsnl gives unlimited @ night. and that itself solves the factor for me. For other times i have got enough gb's. How much would you download in a unlimited plan ? What is your usage ? Some ppl insist unlimited when they are themselves not sure about their download ranges. For those who are sure, they will benefit this from 2mbps. Also dude, not just 2mbps providers will change to 2mbps unlimited in a short span of time.. Competition never ends.

Try reconnecting a couple of times and get into a gateway which has lowest ping latency and keep browsing fast I believe thats where I sometimes get people who can talk a tiny bit of sense. But as I said getting thru is almost impossoble, as its permanently engaged. The call centre guys are worse than hopeles... Right now getting a ping of around 450 ms. Not good ...but much better than yesterday! And its not constant... correction... customer call center has only guy no guys

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Havent you read this topic? Dont you think at least one need 2mbps reading this topic ? Your view comes under a fraction of people who arent interested in much use of internet. Apart from that people just need more speed.

That is just a general definition to that term But in case of bsnl, what NIB does is as said above and they have such teams at each place.. afterall its bsnl

Ok i dont have a exact explanation to NIB. Well they are the ones performing network related things (basics only), and your plan ugpradations (once request forwarded from cust. care) and checking your line etc. Cust. Care is just to listen to ugly talks.

Oh BSNL all gateways except default one 59.93.0.1 in my location has started improving today and right now its at top performance, even damn good ping results drop from 1000 - 290ms and damn good speed. btw regarding help desk dont ever expect anything from them apart from when you are having a situation of a total network being down. For normal network issues, try getting hold of no. of NIB in your city and contact them. They are bit better than customer care executives.

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Cracker that ping you gave is of no use. It is your gateway ip right ? ping to gateway will always be under that 10-60ms delay range. Also regarding opendns or any other dns system, dude simple question... do you think something on the net is queried faster than something right on your system ? Ok forget the dns, we aren't talking that here.. Also gateway is different, down here kerala gateways are 59.93.x.x and also if possible try posting down your ping results to any ip outside BSNL network, "during noon / evening time. Aah even i thought so but then this delay is due to the uprade to 2mbps only. Since there was a issue during that cable damage time but not for much, BSNL routes were changed. BSNL routes some network through airtel, TN. but i havent seen anything like that after network started giving normal speed, then it was upgraded to 2mbps and now its going pathetic.

No offense cracker but let me correct you that whatever dns provider you use will be at least 10% slower overall compared to (when you have a dns server setup locally over your lan with cached entries. And for a fact no site opens in 1 sec.. (kidding) but anyway that site also opens slow for me.. takes around 20-30 seconds (initial) and 10-11seconds on refresh(since it comes half way through cached data). What i am talking is ping latency has increased to 150%+ than what we had till December. You might find the speed ok but if you have used a 1mbps or 2mbps connection with low latency from someone else you will notice bsnl has pathetically gone down. They are having high ping latency and that is what is cutting down performance For eg. see a simple ping delay to google.com Pinging google.com [72.14.207.99] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=647ms TTL=251 Request timed out. Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=642ms TTL=251 Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=653ms TTL=251 Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=848ms TTL=251 Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=644ms TTL=251 Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=670ms TTL=251 Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=711ms TTL=251 Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=652ms TTL=251 Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=654ms TTL=251 Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=646ms TTL=251 Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=948ms TTL=251 Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=646ms TTL=251 Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=644ms TTL=251 The ping averages are very bad. this is the reading during evenings Night it comes to normal around 300 (2am or 3) Day time it hikes to 700-1000 You will find similar readings pinging any site outside Indian ISP's

Either you dint notice the change or it was the same for you throughout. I aint saying it is damn slow but compared to what i had it is slow. Regarding tweaks i have it all. DNS i run my own dns here, then even with firefox tweaks doesnt make any change. Leaving all these tweaks i had mentioned to you about high ping latency (only during day time), ping hikes from 800-1000+ <-- that is what is causing delay(atleast in my case). BSNL Cust. Care has never heard of a word "ping" so it doesnt help me dealing with cust. care.

BSNL broadband is going down towards quality in general terms.. To be more clear the 2mbps upgrade has just downgraded the speed of browsing.. Guess they have again overloaded their nodes than their capacity (just as they did with mobiles few time back), all gateways are often on high ping latency and hence doesnt give enough performance (even to that of earlier 256kbps). While download in a download manager which opens 10-20 connections for a file, speed is fine (still loosing 30kb/s + for a fact) But hope the cope with the situation soon

Well apart from MTNL or something, can you tell me your Modem model ?

Personally saying, if you are ready to wait, try waiting for 2-3 months before committing for a new connection. By then other providers will also be changing to 2mbps. Some might come with unlimited itself. BSNL biggest issue is customer care. Yucky one..

Dont think so.. but better they dont.. now itself they have few issues regarding this sudden increase..

speeds are awesome.. no less than 180kb ever........

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It just doesnt look authentic, whereas it is authentic. BSNL gives average 200kb/s and at times upto 250 - 300kb/s speed here down in kerala

Even i have reliance for a long time but i still say they are expensive compared to BSNL what bsnl lacks is customer care and billing. In SME section itself reliance plans(not unlimited) are costlier than bsnl, Bsnl lacks customer care and billing same is reliance for customer care in broadband billing seems ok

Well with a unlimited connection i have more than 5 or 10 gbs a month at times and constantly above 1 gb for sure. so you cannot say that. even though bsnl limits it also give unrestricted access during for 6 hours at night. that free period is more than enough for you if you very well plan your downloads. especially with 2mbps

BSNL down in kerala has raised its speeds to 200-300kb/s (kilobytes) that is above 2mbps and around constant 200kb/s sounds too good and considering a unlimited plan, i dont think the word unlimited should always be there ? bsnl has slashed rates and there are plans of 5gb and more for around 1-2k price range. and more over with night free Do you think your usage would go above it ??

Anyone can get a GSM / CDMA PCMCIA data card at around 1-2k ? Not the provider cards, but general ones. ?

As an addition let me tell you i am looking for RUIM or GSM SIM Card suppporting cards only.