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it was launched just a couple of hours ago :)

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actually less than 2 hours :D

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this was bloody fast!

this applies to grey as well. i was massively disappointed with it.

Anybody has opted for the reliance 12 Mbps plan?

I stay in delhi and i have been using mtnl 599 unlimited 512kbps plan (no fup) for around 4 years. MTNL has been really unreliable for me and the line goes down very often and the mtnl guys were unable to sort out the issue for me. Apart from these, i also have a Reliance Netconnect/Tata Photon. However, these wireless datacards are also very unreliable. Thus i had to move on to a consistent wireline broadband connection. Unfortunately Airtel was not available in my region so i had to opt for Reliance.

I opted for the Reliance 12Mbps plan. The day i got it installed (last week), the first thing i checked in front of the lineman was the bandwidth using speedtest and relaince speedometer. Reliance speedometer always shows me speeds between 5Mbps and 6Mbps nomatter what. The results of Speedtest.net and speedometer do not match at all. Nomatter what, i have never seen speeds of 12Mbps. Another point is that the browsing speeds might be good (youtube buffering happens automatically) but while downloading applications and softwares, i usually get a speed of 64kBps -100KBps implying that my actual speed is around 512KBps-1MBps. I have been calling the reliance customer care everyday but nobody has a clue. One TSR told me that the speed you will get would be between 1-2 Mbps only since the 12Mbps line has a contention ration of 1:8 impliying that the bandwidth is shared between 8 people. Nomatter what i argued, he failed to accept that there was an issue. Iv raised the issue a number of times but it really doesnt help.
The connection is through what it looks like a normal ADSL cable (though it looks a bit thinner than the normal LAN cable) and without a model

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1817613098.png

heh yeah. since i had sent him screenshots like the one i posted above... he said that he was helpless. the word from the technical team is the last and they are not supposed to challenge them. so basically. they are directly to deliver the exact message given by the tech team to the end user even if they know it is an accurate one. :|

well. statues of other leaders does not hurt i guess. but statues of mayawati herself? they need to establish a law against such thing happening in the future and get rid of the existing ones.

Heh, no :P
Exchange is in my building's basement, that's why ;) . Attenuation is 1.6dB as I type this !

speedtest.net shows sometimes as 1mbps speed however when downloading it downloads at 320kbps to 290kbps which is way beyond 1mbps. so don't blankly rely on speedtest.net there server sometimes get delayed reply from mtnl/bsnl which in turn shows up as slow speed...the problem with these two are disconnection issues atleast mtnl is hitting a toll with past few days issues and still continuing

got disconnected now after 31minutes downloaded 347.51mb..reconnected with no dummy. so the dummy is gone here but frequent disconnections or disconnections at an regular interval over here (pune or alteast for me)

This is so f***ing Hilarious :)

Even ive heard about five net. Do they have like an official website where I can acquire more information?? I couldn't find anything on google... Just a bunch of forum links.

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then what do you suggest I should do?? Bump up my budget?? If so, what is the minimum budget I would require for a plan which has speeds of 4mbps and up??