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Someone had said on this forum that Reliance is going to soon discontinue usage monitor on its site for non-data card Freedom plan users after it discontinued this plan completely last October for them. Has it come true? Those #$@!@$ They are charging me Rs. 2000 for using 1 GB extra last month because I was too late in checking my data usage from their site. The first GB costs only Rs. 650 and GBs thereafter cost three times as much! What thiefs! And now they even take out their usage monitor so it's the customer's responsibility to check it and Reliance can claim any arbitrary usage at these exorbitant rates. Grossly wrong business practice on the part of Reliance to remove support for their services midway. By the way amitstg thanks for the link. Those idiots shifted/removed it from its earlier place and left me wandering like a blind man

Can't find the login link on the reliance site. Has its location been changed? It was in its place only yesterday.

Hello, I have a LG LSP 340E FWP (Fixed Wireless Phone) since 2 years. It has gradually seemed to develop a very bad voice quality like perhaps an mp3 audio file at a very low bitrate would sound. What could be the reason behind this? It's collected a lot of dust in the last 2 years because of irregularly cleaning it. Could this be responsible? Whom shall I take it to to get it checked out, take it to a Web-World or would an engineer have to come to the location? Thanks.

Dude.... Do some research on the net before committing your money. Tata Indicom is reported to be complete and utter rubbish by its users. And MTNL Triband is reported to be heavenly. Don't go by the old reputation of MTNL as a company with its lines always down and bad service. Nowadays 90 % of the people using MTNL Broadband are very, very pleased with it. And TATA Indicom is being sued by people for its bad service ! ----> http://justice-from-tata-indicom.blogspot.com/ And no, don't go for hathaway, sify, hotwire, spectranet etc etc etc that offer "broadband" over LAN cables or hand you a cable modem because they are the worst of all. Go for an ADSL connection. Airtel is another good ADSL provider alongwith MTNL I hear. And I didn't talk of Reliance at all because -- 1) It's not broadband. Reliance itself says that generally you will get a speed of 20-40 kbps on it. That's dial-up like speed. 2) It's very expensive for a fixed connection compared to what other ISP's offer. The closest you can get 24x7 usage is either by getting a data-card for Rs. 14,000 (!) and then get 24x7 internet with 1 GB limit per month OR get a Reliance phone and get charged Rs. 30 / hour for using it in the morning and use it as much as you want at night. It's no good.

R Connect is costlier than sh*t. They made net access during the daytime more costlier than any other ISP. Rs. 30 /hour or Rs. 600 for 32 hours per month etc. What is this?? Or stay up like owls in the night and access the internet using R Connect. And the less said about its speed the better. As for mobility FWP isn't mobile at all and those highway dacoits apply the same price and technology to FWP also. So R Connect for FWP is complete and total sh*t in speed and price compared to other options, period. I am soon gonna dump it for MTNL Triband.

I haven't checked upload speeds much but they seemed to work fine for me a few days back. But R connect is too inconsistent for me to use voice applications on it. At one instant the speed is 10 kBps and at the next instant 1 kBps. Voice is jerky over such a connection. If you want to use Skype or yahoo voice, R Connect is trash.

Try continuosously pinging some site like google using the command ping -t www.google.com from your command prompt while using R Connect.

Also I observed this wonderful fact. I am getting normal speeds on my uploads, from 30 kbps to 70 kbps, but it is only the download on which i am stuck at around 10 kbps. Is there something wrong with the modem circuitry, modem's software level settings, or the problem is at the ISP end (Reliance) itself?

Hey dacodecz, could you please detail some of these tweaks maybe in a howto (on linux and windows)? Speeds of 10 kbps are not strange to me, I am getting these bl**dy speeds for 10 months now. And no config/virus problems here because i get such speeds on installed windows, linux and linux livecds.

Wherever a data limit is mentioned it always means upload+download which includes BSNL Dataone too.

It shows the maximum level on signal bar.

Hello everyone, I have a LG LSP 340E phone that is about a year old. It has started to give give a bad voice quality (nothing is clear on it) and the internet speed is pathetic at 10 kilobits per second. Is something wrong with its internals? For about 7-8 months after its purchase the phone used to be there without any cover mostly and collected dust. Is it possible that what I am facing is because of this? Does anyone have any idea? Thanks. <TOPIC MERGED!>

By the way what do you guys use to check your speeds? Don't you use the dialer provided by Reliance? It shows the speeds in Kilobits per second and mentions so, hence there shouldn't be any confusion on this if you use the official dialer to check your speed like me.

Actually they claim a speed of 114/115 kbps for upload and download combined (throughput) so assuming it's symmetrical (as i have observed it to be when i used to get nice speeds of even 70 kbps) a download speed of 40-70 kbps is fair enough since you will get a similar speed on upload. I am going to call the Customer Care about my very low speeds. Anyone else gets speeds of 10 kilobits per second?

Man I meant I get 10 KiloBits per second (small b = bits, capital B = bytes) and sometimes around 5 even, not KiloBytes. Do you think I would be calling a speed of 10 Kilobytes per second low?? That would be the advertised speed of R Connect and it would be pretty comfortable. Don't you guys get such low speeds? Or is there something seriously wrong at my end ?

Hah well thanks for confirming it for me yet again. These are unbelievably low speeds. I still can't believe someone can sell an internet service with such speeds.

Speeds here are very pathetic at 10 kbps average (goes to sub 5 kbps often too). Is something wrong with the FWP I have or is it R Connect only?

Okay. That could have happened. Thanks for the information. You mean LG LSP340-E FWP. I get the same pathetic speeds on that phone itself. Right now though, after many, many days, I am getting 16-23 kbps on it. Don't know how long it will last. But even this is meagre. I have previously got around 30 kbps on Govt. run telephone lines.

What the.../ I had posted that in a new thread. How did ti find its way here I haven't heard anyone get speeds of 16-17 kilobytes per second in R Connect. At the most they get around 9-10 kilobytes per second or around 70 kilobits per second, which is what I used to get when I had freshly got the connection. And now I get barely 1 kBps. I don't know what those idiots are upto. They used to not send my monthly bills earlier and then claim I hadn't paid up. At one time they capped by speed due to this nonsense and I suspect their cap is still there. I haven't paid much attention to it coz i use Sify regularly now. Guess have to take it up with them.

Today R Connect touched a new low for me. I checked my access speed at http://myspeed.visualware.com which is a nice site giving you your upload+download speed and Quality of Service rating too. My values came out to be:- Download speed = 7.45 kbps Upload speed = 7.58 kbps Quality of Service = 68 % (This is nothing but a measure of how consistent was my speed. A rating of 100 % would have meant my speed remained constant throughout the testing phase and a rating of 0 % would have meant my speed varied extremely wildly) So you can see that R Connect for me is 2 to 4 times more pathetic than dial-up which people consider to be the most pathetic form of internet access. I don't know how can Reliance advertise it as a 114 kbps internet connection (even if they mention in fine print that this is for "throughput" because most people think it is 114 kbps download speed they will get). You can all go to http://myspeed.visualware.com and cehck your speeds and post them here. All you need to do is a simple sign up with them with an email address (make a fake one and use it so any future spams to that address won't bother you).

I don't think there will be any reduction the charges for the Freedom plan atleast. The benefit that REliance can pass on to its consumer as a result of TRAI's decision, however, is the increase in the data transfer limit substantially from 1 GB. They could even do away with Platinum plan altogether and make the Freedom plan the one with unlimited download (my hopes hehe).

I am not sure about what's wrong but I thought about consulting the Help pages on the official Reliance Dialer program. Here's what they have for Error 721:- The first two possibilities suggested appear unlikely to me. So I'd tend towards the third possibility.

Oh, you mean 16-17 kilobits per second (kbps), not kilobytes per sec(kBps)

This is very wrong. They should give the same speed across all phone models. After all the R Connect tarriffs don't differ model-wise. Why should different people pay the same net access charges and get so widely differing speeds?

Good to hear you're getting such high speeds. Is the speed of 16-17 kBps on downloads only or is it download speed+upload speed combined?