adwait

Hey poeple.....after the telecom industry guess who's going to be opening up their distribution lines for all the players.....the Power Cos! After that is done you can choose from any of the power companies available in your city, whoever offers the most competetive tarrif, so the power tarrifs are bound to come down. Damn.....can't find a link to that article. Anyway, basically, right now they are about to implement it in 17 states for consumers who are consuming over 1 MW power.....but I guess in some time it will become available to normal consumers as well.

Definitely...in Maharashtra there is an accute shortage of power everywhere. Most of the state (excluding mumbai) is experiencing load shedding for 2-3 hours everyday. The power plants are not running at full capacity due to lack of fuel, and another major source of power ie: Dabhol power plant is lying shut because a whole lot of problems. They have decided to start that plant again, but it will atleast take 2 more years, which time the power consumption will have increased a lot.

I think its going to be implemented in almost all states excluding the north eastern states. Well, the coming of competetion might induce a better power supply scenario because we already have priavte players in Mumbai (Reliance and Tata) but the service isn't all the great. Ofcourse we get uninterrupted power supply which is much more than what can be said for the rest of the country but the billing is pretty much steep........I am hoping competation will remedy that.

congrats man!!

People using over 1 MW power = Small scale Industrial Users

You are talking about broadband in villages, I am talkin about broadband in cities, and in cities almost everyone has copper wires coming to their place.

Lol........finally something linuxguy and sexygurl agree upon!!

The mods moved that post into the broadband over power lines post......hence I added that edit line. I tried to seach for that article, but for some wierd reason, the archives on the TOI site are upto 1st November.......Ill send the link when they update their site.

That's like asking why do you need Cell phones, or even landlines.......PCOs are around every corner! That's not the point..... eg: I use Linux and if I have to upgrade. I have to download about 400-500 MBs of data....you can't expect me to do that at a web world then burn a CD and THEN come home and install the updates! Besides, may times that isn't even possible......you need a direct connection from the computer you are updating to the internet. Forgor linux, even Microsoft Windows, how are you going to download the updates like the service packs etc? Download then burn a CD and then get them home?? Not practical.....

dhakkan thats my name......adwait = advitiya = uniquer!

Yup...there are only two CDMA operators, and even then its apparently illegal to reprogram you handset for another provider (out of a choice of just 2!), even though you bought the habdset with full upfront payment

That varies from country to country In UK, a minimum of 512 kbps is required to classify a connection as broadband. In India its 256 kbps...... I am waiting for the day when 512 kbps becomes affordable......right now the best I can get is 512 kbps @ 599/month but that's with a download cap of 1 GB . Atleast 2 GB would have ben good....or the night unlimited package that I have right now @ 256 kbps.

Dial up services are available in most parts of the country (I think) with Rconnect or otherwise with landline phones/modems/dial up ISPs. Along with increasing the internet penetration, it is also necessary to have broadband, atleast in the cities. What's a farmer going to do with a big bandwidth? But the same can't be said about a user in the city who needs bandwidths for downloads, video conferencing or any other thing. If by that you mean the low income group, then MTNL broadband is available at about 200 bucks. Ofcourse, for that plan the free usage is limited, but you do get high speed. These users hardly use their phones for anything but a few calls and SMS, so they can easily avail of such vanilla services @ 256 kbps with such budget plans of MTNL/BSNL. You are talking about taking broadband connections to the masses in the villages of india........there are no computers there!! What are they going to do with broadband connectivity?

That depends on your definition of broadband. If, broadband for you means a speed of more than 1 mbps, unlimited downloads @ an affordable price like abroad.....true, broadband is a few years away. But, if for you, broadband means any decent connection above 256 kbps....then broadband is here. Using your own anology, we are in the pre mobile era....

Yeah...but as the distance increases, so does the attenuation and hence the speed decreases. 4200 is the absolute maximum......but for good speed you should be around 2-3 km max.

Hey ........wha abt me?? Anybody remember me??

Yeah...DSL worls upto a maximum of 4200 meters.

There are new technologies like HDSL, and VHDSL which allow very high speeds over the existing telephone lines. Laying Optic fibres is expensive and difficult. The copper phone lines are already there. With the current technology they can provide very high speed. MTNL, which uses ADSL 2+ technology, which is not really the latest, can provide 10 mbps, which is quite enough for atleast a few years more. After that, new technologies like VHDSL can be implemented to increase the bandwidth. The cost of laying cables, fibre optic or otherwise, is a LOT. Also there are the hassles of BMC permissions etc. for digging up the roads.

Actually they have incorporated this new tag called Sender ID in emails. In domains which support it, it is possible to verify if the sender address as been spoofed.

Not true:1)Speeds upto 10mbps possible with copper phone lines 3)Speed upto 100 mbps possible with coaxial cable. 4)Speed upto 54 mbps possinle with wi-max (read somewhere on this forum).

It isnt always easy to work with macs, especially in an environment dominated by Microsoft for everything. In linux, atleast you have softwares which can work with microsoft filetypes etc. and even run applications meant for Windows........but i doubt if there is such a thing for Mac (Is there? haven't really used mac ever)

In June they approached my dads company with an offer for broadband and wireline telephone which they claimed were to be launched in Novemeber....but nothing yet.

well, I am not in BSNL area so I have MTNL connection, but since both are PSUs I imagine they must be pretty much the same The speeds are excellent. On my 256 kbps I get a speed of 27 kb/s, which is about 216 kbps.

1)The MTNL network is certainly good. The only reason it went down in CERTAIN places was because of that fact that water entered the exchanges/junction boxes causing short circuit. That has nothing to do with the network/qiring quality. 2)Wireless networks are fine for voice communication but when it comes to high speed communication, wireless can't beat wirline communication. The maximum speeds right now for CDMA network is 144 kbps (with 1X RTT). When EVDO is used, the speed will increase. At the same time, the maximum speed possible on the MTNL network or any other wireline network with ADSL 2+ technology is 10 MBPS. Higher speeds are also possible with VHDSL HDSL etc. Wire line communication gives a much much higher maximum speed as compared to wireless.