student 0 Report post Posted May 12, 2004 Hi Everyone, Pls forgive me if i dont know all about relianve R-Connect. I am living in Australia for the last 10 years so i dont know much happening in india. I found out a few days ago from Reliance web site that it is possible to have a broadband connection. I have a dial up account for my parents in india( amritsar Punjab). I do VoIP (with VoIP blaster) with them every week. But the voice quality is very poor. I here have a broadband connection. I would like to know that if R-Connect with a FWP will be any better then dial up? How is the speed? How hard it is to get connected and so. I'll really appreciate your help. Thanks in Advance. Gurinder Singh. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arun 795 Report post Posted May 12, 2004 Hello Gurinder, welcome to RIMweb.com ! Even though Reliance claims their R-Connect connection as 'broadband' , it never is in practical. One thing to note is the speeds are improving as time goes by and they say it will improve even more in the coming days. But still, the actual speed will be only a little more than normal dial up connections. So I guess Reliance FWP is not a wise choice if you need more bandwidth to do VOIP applications. Anyway, Reliance will be starting broadband connections in the last quarter of 2004 (no date announced though). I sugges you to wait till then. Just my two cents Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
emmi 3 Report post Posted May 12, 2004 Wait for few month till reliance releases its broadband service.Its likely to be launched in few months Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
city02 63 Report post Posted May 12, 2004 does relianceindiacall work from Oz? its just $0.12/min from the US... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arun 795 Report post Posted May 12, 2004 (edited) RelianceIndiaCall is available in some states in USA only Edited May 12, 2004 by Chirag Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunil_jok 2 Report post Posted May 16, 2004 hey u do VOIP, so u call them to their phone from the net, right? in that case there isnt much chance that the quality would improve. try using some other site which gives VOIP. coz the prob would be with bandwidth, and the present service provider may not be having good bandwidth, with some other service provider u might get better bandwidth, try yahoo. they should have good bandwidth. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
student 0 Report post Posted May 16, 2004 Thanks Arun and everyone else for replying and giving you input. I dont think that the broadband you are talking about will be available in my area in the near future. What kind of Broadband service it will be? I mean ADSL, Cable or Sat? But if R-Connect is any (even a bit) better then dial up and then i will go with that. I will be visiting home in Aug and hopefully by then the speeds will be better. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chirag 5 Report post Posted May 16, 2004 For more on Reliance BroadBand, visit the links below! RIM to Roll Out Broadband For Enterprise Broadband Goes Boom: Prices Crash Reliance to make set-top-box redundant Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
student 0 Report post Posted May 17, 2004 HI Sunil, You are half right. I have the VOIP blaster http://www.innosphere.net/voipblaster/default.htm installed on both ends. So both the terminals has to be connected to the internet. I can call them on the phone but its not big diff in price then the normal call (to india). On the other hand they can call me on my phone for only about 10 A cents a min. I usually tops up there account from time to time. But the quality of the call is less then average. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chirag 5 Report post Posted May 17, 2004 Do u really think u require an internet connection for a voice talk with ur pals in india? After Telecom prices crashing in india i dont think thts a necessity anymore... RelianceIndiaCall n other calling cards are damn cheap. And Reliance's ISD rates in certain states r equally cheap! U can check out the following links! Speak2USA&Canada card Speak2Gulf card Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zameerb 0 Report post Posted March 6, 2006 I guess you cant use SIP VOIP since I have noticed that reliance is blocking SIP port 5060.. anyone has any idea? Do u really think u require an internet connection for a voice talk with ur pals in india? After Telecom prices crashing in india i dont think thts a necessity anymore...RelianceIndiaCall n other calling cards are damn cheap. And Reliance's ISD rates in certain states r equally cheap! U can check out the following links! Speak2USA&Canada card Speak2Gulf card Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vahuja 0 Report post Posted March 22, 2006 Hi Everyone,Pls forgive me if i dont know all about relianve R-Connect. I am living in Australia for the last 10 years so i dont know much happening in india. I found out a few days ago from Reliance web site that it is possible to have a broadband connection. I have a dial up account for my parents in india( amritsar Punjab). I do VoIP (with VoIP blaster) with them every week. But the voice quality is very poor. I here have a broadband connection. I would like to know that if R-Connect with a FWP will be any better then dial up? How is the speed? How hard it is to get connected and so. I'll really appreciate your help. Thanks in Advance. Gurinder Singh. YES...it works fine... i have been using skype messanger on Relianc FWP. either you can do voice talk or video conference both not both. for voice around 64 Kbps is enough...and that much you can get from FWP... bye Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
