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Interesting. It's a mixture of information and... misinformation. Excuse me while I try and be objective: Speed: Clearly they've not used their own network lately... in addition, conveniently forgetting to mention the FUPs (you get 24/7/365)... reports I've seen from consumers indicate that...

Officially: Pretty sure most providers would try to not send cold-hard cash/cheques/etc, so it'll probably just show up as a credit or discount on your next bill(s). Unofficially: what's a refund? I feel sorry for you with your BSNL issues - you really should see about escalating this problem...

Not really. Players like Airtel may have a large customer base (over 1 million subscribers IIRC) but their coverage is still pretty limited compared to what is available to the government ISPs: you can get Airtel service if you live in the right building but it's far from ubiquitous coverage...

Yes, I use Hayai at home. It's not a justification, it's a requirement. It might sound like a lot of money to you, but when you look at what has to be paid for and how much it costs, you'll see how close to the line we have to run to keep it even that low. You have to keep in mind that cities...

The cost for an ISP to buy a megabit of International bandwidth has not dropped by 96% or whatever the article that's being cited is claiming, only the submarine cable landing charges have, which is but a component of the whole. Even then, the cost variation between the big-3 primary providers...

Landing charges != access charges. The effect isn't that great. Doubtful. It's a mindset thing more than anything else, and quite honestly, that's one of the hardest things to change.

Was replying to GP not OP ;)

Not in Hyderabad, yet.

^No.

I know. With reduced staff (thanks to Diwali) sometimes one needs to be there to pick up the slack.

Someone called our helpline only about half an hour ago with that exact same question. The official answer is: we don't know. The unofficial answer is: when we can - we're actively working on it and planning things constantly but Delhi/NCR is a big area spread across 3 telecom circles with 5...

Airtel can give synchronous speeds up to 1mbit/s, beyond that ADSL makes it impossible. You Telecom can on their FTTB network but not on their ADSL network. BSNL can give up to 1mbit/s but typically stops at 512k because I think they have an addon where you can pay extra for faster upload (MTNL...

In the case of DSL, it's limited to the speeds of ADSL or VDSL (8/24 or 55/100mbit/s respectively depending on the version), not to 100mbit/s as the FTTB ISPs are able to provide. Not true even in the slightest. When ISPs buy bandwidth, they buy a fully synchronous pipe. In the case of DSL...

[/B][/I] Yes it does. You think cables and equipment magically increase in price when they upgrade your speeds to 15 or 20 or 50mbps? They can deliver you 50GB at 1 or 10 or 100mbps for the same price, give or take a few thousandths of a paise in the cost of electricity. All I can say is that...

We're replacing old and low-quality switches on cable-operator's networks all the time to solve problems on networks over here, so I'm very well aware of the measures that most of them take to save that extra 50 bucks. But that's a problem with broken equipment, not a problem with the...

For the record, Beam is owned by ACT. They probably won't be entering Chennai any time soon. Dunno, I'd have to ask someone at Beam if something is going on over there. Shouldn't matter. Even with a 100mbit/s switch with 48 ports there should be plenty of bandwidth to go around - it doesn't...

Yes of course, because most computers don't have Fibre NICs. But that's not what we're talking about here. You won't be able to buy it on the open market. It's a little more than that. FTTH gear isn't so cheap. Because while there are 4 ethernet ports on the LAN side, the WAN connection is...

No, it can't be used. I guess Reliance probably isn't rolling out ADSL anymore, so these modems can't be used with anyone except Airtel, MTNL and BSNL (and in some areas, Tata). Reliance probably won't provide a router on the Metro Ethernet connections (where you get direct Cat5 cable) since...

^If Reliance is delivering service via DSL, then yes, in theory it will work. If they are delivering by "Metro Ethernet" (AKA FTTB), then no. Security deposit is usually for either of 2 things: 1 for equipment (if they give you some modem/router) or 2. On a postpaid plan in case you don't pay...

All torrents are public - torrents are just data and can be treated like any other download or stream, although in practicality it's not easy to choose (or even know) what gets cached because it's all automatic. It's the trackers that are private - the tracker tells your client what/where/how...