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1. I've a 256kbps cable connection with 4000MB combined UL/DL limit. I pay 700/- p.m. (including taxes). We don't have Airtel in our area. Will BSNL unlimited plan be a good choice?

2. I'm an existing BSNL telephone customer. Which one is a better option for me - UL900 PLUS or UL900? Why?

3. The modem - Is it better to purchase it outright or rent it on a monthly basis? Is it better to purchase it from BSNL or from local market? Anything else to lookout for while selecting a modem? Brand/Type? I'll be using it on a single PC.

4. Any other tips, ideas?

Thanx in advance. :hap2:
 
it depends on ur location.... btw where do u live.... coz BSNL is gud in some areas and bad in some..... regd.. modem i'd suggest u to buy a other party modem suck as dlink coz i don't trust BSNL modems...

nd regarding UL900 PLUS or UL900, i think u can go for UL 900 plus if u don't have more outgoing....
 
I have had both and here is my experience...

1. I've a 256kbps cable connection with 4000MB combined UL/DL limit. I pay 700/- p.m. (including taxes). We don't have Airtel in our area. Will BSNL unlimited plan be a good choice?
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Yes its a good choice... But choose your plan wisely cause BSNL Customer Care sucks...

2. I'm an existing BSNL telephone customer. Which one is a better option for me - UL900 PLUS or UL900? Why?
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If you are using the Voice services then go with the Plus plan...

3. The modem - Is it better to purchase it outright or rent it on a monthly basis? Is it better to purchase it from BSNL or from local market? Anything else to lookout for while selecting a modem? Brand/Type? I'll be using it on a single PC.
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Get a Dlink ADSL Router Modem. The one offered by BSNL is crap. Or you can just rent out the modem for first month. If you find it good then keep it otherwise buy Dlink.

4. Any other tips, ideas?
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Bsnl Routing sucks. So forget about Online Gaming. Also BSNL has a tendency to go down when it rains badly. Atleast that happenes in my locality. So be ready for that. Last but not the least, Make sure that cable is laid out well in your house and there is no disturbance in the phone line. Otherwise you will get frequent disconnections.

Apart from that BSNL is pretty good. If downloading stuff from the net is your thing then you are in for a surprise as BSNL offers great speeds. 30-35 KBps on direct FTP transfers. What more can one ask for.

Hope this helped.
 
QuickFire said:
1. I've a 256kbps cable connection with 4000MB combined UL/DL limit. I pay 700/- p.m. (including taxes). We don't have Airtel in our area. Will BSNL unlimited plan be a good choice?
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It's a very good choice. I'm using it for about couple of weeks now. It takes couple of working days to get connected after the application of change of plan. Do keep a tab on http://10.240.43.216/ to know updates of what's happening. Look into Service Records when that tells u Home 900 UL or UL PLUS that's when you can download unlimited.

QuickFire said:
2. I'm an existing BSNL telephone customer. Which one is a better option for me - UL900 PLUS or UL900? Why?
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UL900 PLUS if u're using voice or not. Why... because it's Rs. 1/- per call which means even if u don't call for a whole month nothing will be charged. There is no monthly tariff unlike in the plain 900 in which u have to pay the existing plan whatever u have. The pulse rate is 180 sec. for local calls & 60 sec. for all STD calls @ Rs. 1/-

QuickFire said:
3. The modem - Is it better to purchase it outright or rent it on a monthly basis? Is it better to purchase it from BSNL or from local market? Anything else to lookout for while selecting a modem? Brand/Type? I'll be using it on a single PC.
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The D-Link 502T is a good one if it's a single machine, however if u wanna use it for multiple machines in a lan then the DI-604 is also a good entry level router. Although get the firmware updated as per Dipdude's post here There is quite an exhaustive list of D-Link Routers here . The deal with BSNL modems is that their is no company support. They either give utstar or huawei & both don't have a good support infrastructure. With D-Link u get 3 yrs. warranty so that's cool. Also D-Link support is pretty good atleast here.

QuickFire said:
4. Any other tips, ideas?
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I haven't tried gaming hence no idea, for FTP transfers get consistent 28-30 Kbps. The BSNL server is down something like couple of hrs. once every week. Usually on a Tuesday here. Also when u get to unlimited the connection is shifted to the local NIB head & that's a good thing.
On torrents if u have properly port forwarded then get something like 20 Kbps DL & 5 Kbps UL with good speed while surfing. This is in normal priorty.
AFA the D-Link 502-T is concerned I've been using it something like 9 months now with roughly 2 hrs. a day & 6 hrs. unlimited while 24*7 nowadays & no issues. The only thing with the D-Link routers is that they're ugly to look at but work. Netgear & Linksys are sexier but slightly more costlier. Don't know how they perform.
Purchase the router/modem just the day after & do take the instructions for setting it up for BSNL. Also make sure that the firmware is up to date. I know they had some issues around couple of yrs. back & some routers/modems came with the old firmware which is not compatible with BSNL. In case if u get a modem/router with the old firmware don't try to upgrade it u'rself. Get them to do it for u as it takes atleast 20-30 times to get it right.
Lastly share with us u'r experience of how things went :hap2:
 
Switch said:
Bsnl Routing sucks. So forget about Online Gaming.
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I get 60-70ms to all Indian servers and some Singapore ones, and I would go as far as to say that the connection stability ingame is 'outstanding'. The netgraph in quake3 and cs remains a near flat green line.

And as everyone else already said, the speeds are always 2-3kB/s more than the subscribed plan.

Only bad thing about BSNL is their customer care, which is crap.
 
i also get the best pings playing online i play FIFA online TM online and i have checked my pings to CS and those are the best you can get being in punjab. only spectranet is better than BSNL thats what i think in terms of pings
 
I think u guys are forgetting couple of points, one is the relative distances from the exchanges, the further u are, the lesser the bandwidth is. Secondly, there is something called fast mode, interleaved mode, G. Lite & G. DMT mode . If u're modem/router has fast mode on then u may get better pings. Latency is supposedly reduced.Lastly can any of the guys give some reverse ip something like 61.1.96.69 which is the BSNL DNS server here in pune so I can ping & report back what kinda ping rates I'm getting her.
 
Ping to exchange is of little use. ofcourse if there is problem in line everything will suffer.

BSNL dataone used by my aunt and cousin in pune is giving him good pings on sg servers.

I am on MTNL triband here in mumbai and i am getting at worse 80ping on sg servers. And sometimes as low as 65-70.

shirish, you should get your current DNS server and local gateway address from your router/modem.
 
thanx a lot for the replies...

another question:

do i have to pay anything extra for getting 900UL PLUS

any security deposits etc. for STD/ISD?

i have an existing tel. connection without STD/ISD facility.
 
There's a security deposit of 900 R/- for broadband that they might ask u to pay. Tell them to add it in the bill & then claim it back. For STD/ISD u will have to give a seperate application for opening that up. Nowadays there's a no. lock which is highly recommended for the same so tht nobody can abuse it.

@Funky I know the DNS servers & the local gateway info. What I was asking was for some ip's of gaming servers either of India or Singapore origins so I can ping them & just state the results.
 
2. I'm an existing BSNL telephone customer. Which one is a better option for me - UL900 PLUS or UL900? Why?
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switch said:
If you are using the Voice services then go with the Plus plan...
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i think he shudnt go for UL 900 plus if he uses the voice services .... as it will be expensive at 1/- per min in the PLUS plan .. correct me if i am wrong.
@Quickfire
i have been on dataone since a year now ... i must say its a very very good service ..except for their customer care ....i have never tried gaming so cant comment on it but for downloads n surfing ..it rocks !!

here is a tip for u :

make sure u ask the lineman to use good quality wire (which is thick) for the phone line else u will have loads of problems n frequent disconnections n stuff. i had faced major connection problems with the ultra thin wire that they had used for me earlier but everything became okay once the wire was replaced. and also make sure that the wire from the pole to ur place doesnt have any joints in between (those joints are a major source of disturbances n fluctuations).
 
i'm not into online gaming..

i need it primarily for downloading and browsing only.

so, if i go for UL900 plan, i won't need any extra wiring or installation. it will only make use of the existing BSNL telephone line. right? i've already got a thick black good quality wiring..so no probs. there :P

i see no use for an extra telephone line now... i think UL900 will be the one for me. now gotta decide abt the modem.
 
Yup it will use the existing telephone line but make sure the telephone line you currently have does not have any parallel connections upto the splitter, otherwise it wont work. When i had bsnl, i had the same problem and the idiots didnt tell me and installed it. They spent one week trying to figure out the problem until i read THEIR manual and read this :@

Abt the modem if you ask me the modem provided by them is absolutely fine. I used the modem provided by them for a year without any problems.
 
hunt3r said:
Yup it will use the existing telephone line but make sure the telephone line you currently have does not have any parallel connections upto the splitter, otherwise it wont work.
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oops! thats a big big problem :S

will have to find a workaround for it...or will have to get the PLUS option.
 
hunt3r said:
Yup it will use the existing telephone line but make sure the telephone line you currently have does not have any parallel connections upto the splitter, otherwise it wont work. When i had bsnl, i had the same problem and the idiots didnt tell me and installed it. They spent one week trying to figure out the problem until i read THEIR manual and read this :@
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Believe it or not, that's all bs. You just need to pay some expert 3rd party lineman and get your line set up.

I have an epabx system at home and the bsnl guys told me the same thing, that I won't be able to connect to my adsl link unless I seperate that line from the epabx system.
Not only that, but also that I won't be able to access that line from ANY other handset in the house except the one in my room.

I phutao'ed them and called the guy who provided us with the epabx and he told me not to worry, he will take care of everything.

Within half an hour he set it up in a way that neither did I have to seperate the line from the epabx, nor did other handsets in the house have any trouble accessing this adsl enabled line after dialling zero.
Meanwhile, the connection in my room didn't need to dial zero at all to get the dial-tone.

The pro had the same line going through the epabx > splitter > router as well as epabx > all the other handsets in the house.
 
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