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Hello guys, I'm planning to purchase a second TataSky setup in my room to watch TV on my laptop and I intend to do it in one of the following ways.

1.Purchase the Set-top Box, USB tv tuner for laptop and connect it through RF/composiste to the tv tuner and watch TV. (the wired setup is inconvenient )



2. Purchase the Set-top box, connect it to some wireless device, possibly one that transmits Television signals wirelessly or connect a wireless router to the Set-top Box and watch the Television on my laptop wirelessly thorugh the wifi network.(this is the preferred way)

I'm certain someone has definitely encountered this issue previously and if there's an existing thread give me the link to the same, if not advise me accordingly.

Diagramatic represntation would help greatly.

Thanks

Don't forget service tax is payable on the top of this pricing.

Too bad there is no punishment specified in Indian law for incompetent government employees.

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The forum already has loads of threads on the modem/router topic.

Had you paid for the airtel modem ?

p is supposed to be much better than i. that's what i have read online. i have a hd camcorder and i think it shoots in 1080i i do not like the end videos too much interlacing in it if that is the correct term. :|

Right. Tata is bad only if they have monopoly in your society. Reliance is bad, always. But afaik, op, if you're still living where you used to, only one society has tata, and none have rcom. YOU too isn't present. Have you yet not got the new plan from bsnl ?

LCO, if present, is another option.

I was going to give a similar answer to Kickass. In short: usage will rise, but only a bit - it's certainly not going to rise by 10 or 100x as the operators seem to think it will (based on their pricing plans).

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Oh are they? So why then are the retail rates in other markets not very high? LTE devices are only "expensive" now because they are new, but not as expensive as 3G devices were back when 3G came out. AFAIK LTE base stations are cheaper than 3G ones, as well since there's no conversion needed.

BSNL is capable of changing if it sheds maybe 70% of it's workforce. On a network level, the fact that there are so many complaints about it is probably due mostly to the scale. They requested a refund for their BWA (Wimax) spectrum because they were viewing Wimax as a commercial failure due to the model they'd chosen (franchisees weren't living up to their end of the bargain) - I don't believe it had anything to do with 2G spectrum.

I believe they were planning to cut down on domestically manufactured devices, not imported ones. Personally, I wouldn't touch any of the domestically manufactured equipment that I've seen or had demoed to me with a 10-foot barge pole. It might be OK for someone else, so I doubt I'd be seeing any effect on pricing from such tax cuts.

People expected too much from Wimax. Then from 3G. And now LTE. We found Wimax practically fell over under any kind of significant load. 3G fares marginally better up to a point. LTE is a bit more efficient from that. Nothing is perfect: not even wireline products. It just so happens however, that QoS on a wired product is easier to guarantee, diagnose or fix.

RIL != RCOM. RIL has zero global backbone. RIL is investing in LTE because it is probably the cheapest way for them to get that product to market. It may also be the case that they are not (yet) in the wireline (FTTx) market to avoid competing with RCOM. Anil would probably throw a shitfit if Mukesh moved in and tried to kill Anil's prize pig.

What the government expects and what the government will get are 2 very VERY different things. Frankly, FTTH is not yet 100% necessary (say what now?)... YET. FTTB is sufficient for the time being - it'll do 100mbit/s reasonably comfortably HOWEVER, if you're going to start building an FTTx network from scratch like we are, we figure we might as well start now so as to avoid having to build it (effectively) twice. Less cost to us, shorter RoI for our investors.

Other operators may already have legacy networks which don't need so much actual fiber upgrading, but just more fiber so that they can bring the media convertor (whether that's a DSLAM, ONU, Switch, Repeater, BTS, whatever) closer to the user - so the DSL that's currently operating from the exchange starts to be put in cabinets all over the place.

For those in Mumbai, you know those MTNL cabinets you see everywhere which are full of a bunch of wires? Those cabinets could be repurposed, fiber run all the way to the cabinet, then all the wires ripped out and replaced with shiny new mini-DSLAMs which means your copper loop becomes much shorter and your potential speed much higher - your lines which currently sync a max of 6-ish mbit/s suddenly start syncing at 15 or so with cleaner line stats and, if they upgrade the plan speeds, much better throughput... better still, since they would likely be buying VDSL DSLAMs, offerings offer a nice intermediary for companies like MTNL to start really promoting triple-play services and decent speed Internet (30-50mbit/s) before the FTTH products really come in to their own.

Sadly though, the lifespan of DSL in it's current forms (not counting future upgrades/bonding/etc) is almost over already (maybe 10 years more at most) so moving straight to fiber in a similar configuration is actually the best option BUT then the problem remains that consumers won't want to be forced to upgrade their own CPEs (especially considering the cost), so they'll probably end up HAVING to take this route of cabinets with VDSL and building the FTTH network alongside the existing DSL network, which for them means most expenditure: THIS is the catch 22, I think, and where the private companies can get an edge on the public ones.

I don't know about you, but voice signals have difficulty in my house. Moreover, Data signals are much more sensitive. A voice signal is 64kbit/s or less. Even a 2G data signal is twice that, let alone 3G/WiMax/LTE. In some apartments (mother in law's would be a famous example) literally moving inward 20cm from the outer edge of the balcony makes all the difference between a 2G/EDGE signal or a 3G one: it can be that bad. However, there are other factors which can cause it to be like this, such as the location of and/or distance from the BTS: I think they're only about 100-150m away from the nearest one but it isn't even remotely close to line-of-sight. If it were, said bars may have a lesser effect.

Well everything is sorted out after the showroom manager pushed the installer to check, he came again and found out that compressor fan was not running due to obstruction of frame itself, he did some alignments by pushing the fan back and stuff, and everything is fine now.

AC cools satisfyingly, its not very noisy, but not completely silent as the Daikins, i can hear little of compressor also. (sitting near the window, compressor is like 3 feet away from the window.)

Now just wishing i will have a hassle-less experience with our first ever AC, hope wont have to repair/refill too often.

After spending 40,000 rs, i would expect atleast 5 years of flawless cooling with peace of mind. Fingers crossed..

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