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Yeah. It's true. IT expansion needs a lot of money and more important support from political leader especially in India.

I have read somewhere in the news paper said by someone famous man. Broadband growth depends on CM of that state.

I have observed that tikona official(tikona.services, if I'm not wrong) is on this forum. However, user hasn't visited this forum since last 18 days. Last activity was on 31st Jul, 2012.

I want tikona users to post result of Tikona connectivity at your location. Tikona has a good approach of providing high speed internet but they are unable to provide it because of they're providing internet on free channels. Therefore, they couldn't provide you a much stable connectivity. Tikona has a good infrastructure and high power Access point as I experienced.

I foolishly tried to change the direction of receivers (Nano station2 loco and Ruckus outdoor CPE are used for testing) facing at the face of AP several times from different corners of terrace.
I conclude that during some duration especially early morning and late nigh, I get stable connectivity but some delay is observed in ping time while pinging to default gateway else I get packet loss which we all receive from Tikona.

Why is this happening?
I can say this is all because of interference around the receiver. Again, I'm saying their access point are enough capable to send signal to multiple users but as mgcarley told me in discussion through PM, AP could become busy sometime while handling multiple requests and attending numbers of users. However, its throughput is fine but CPU memory reaches to peak. It is hard for user to determine poor performance is due to congestion at AP or interference around receiver/AP unless user has access of receiver which is not provided by Tikona official and even it's impossible to get into system. Any of receiver(Nanostation2 loco, Ruckus or Gemtech) provided by Tikona is not suitable for dealing with interference at user's site. Gemtech works at some location but it has worse throughput. It goes down very often. I think that's why Tikona has spent money in buying spectrum. It got numbers of customers in Mumbai and Pune. It can be said it is heart of Tikona but it depends on user whether it chooses Tikona or go with any alternative if available unlike me.

There is no solution of interference. It will help in getting stability temporary by shifting channels which is not possible from user side. Yeah, 5Ghz channel helps because of there are less electronics equips are working on that frequency whereas if we talk about 2.4Ghz, First comes wireless router(we all are used with it after laptop becomes easily available), cordless(it doesn't bother much but affects in some cases) and oven and many more.

High power devices make sense in getting stable connectivity but it will never be provided from Tikona. They may be costly for Tikona to afford. Variety of devices will improve performance as I experience personally. Every user has different situation at his place where unique device doesn't work especially it is cheap.

Believe me if you get connected with Tikona AP properly, you will have best taste of pudding. I have never experienced poor speed even if I think, it is evening and there will be unstable speed unless I have above 25% packet loss. In Mum-Pune, there may be different scenario where numbers of users have a single AP and if those are fond of downloading a lot, they may have wide variation in speed as official has mentioned in T/C in technical manner.(They are allowed to increase ratio up to 1:50 for unlimited plans.)


1) Please post snap of ping of default gateway.
2) Speedtest.net result along with the tariff speed under the result.
3) Most important, pingtest.net result.
4) Post the distance of AP from your place, numbers of AP with clear LOS(line of sight) and unclear one also. and direction of AP(I mean face of AP from your place)

I won't ask about your experience or about any rating. I know you and I are fed up with Tikona but for me, I don't have any alternative and I couldn't stop myself from lucrative speed of Tikona. Speedtest.net rating speaks itself calculated as per its automated system.

My result.
1). I get stability very often at late night. I will post the worse one when I have during the day.




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3). Why it's important. It gives the line quality test.








Above results seems good but I will post worse one tomorrow when sun rises. It's late night gives good results.
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AP = 2 both have clear LOS from my terrace and have not more than 300m distance from my terrace.
One of AP has exact face at my terrace but high tension line behind it bothers a lot. It fluctuate signal strength but it gives me best performance. It gives about 5-15ms from default gateway but I can't connect with it because of high tension lines causes signal drops.
Another one have clear LOS but face of AP is having cross angle because of having AP of another ISP is installed at the same place having distance of 2feet not more. Gives trouble a lot during day. It is the only one I can connect with. It gives me about 15-25ms from default gateway. Other ISP AP interferences a lot results in to packet loss while signal strength doesn't survive.


Don't post any confidential information of yours. No id or request number or no personal email/email interaction or name of any employee.

I need your connection performance. If it worked well, I would send it to appellate authority of Tikona. They may personally contact you through PM only if they are interested to make better.

Tikona is not suitable for online Gaming application or voice-video solution which is first requirement remained unsatisfied.

I was past 80% FUP today and hard a had time browsing the net after that - Airtel thinks redirecting the user to their annoying warning pages is perfectly acceptable. Eventually I pulled the network cable out and back in to escape their clutches :P

Sigh - more issues :( I made the mistake of not checking my ACT connection all day today (was on Airtel to use up what little FUP remains) and when I plugged my ACT line in just out of curiosity I was NOT pleased to note that I was unable to login to the network - a problem reported earlier by others in this thread as well. My auth credentials are obviously correct but for what it's worth I used ACT's "retrieve password" option hoping that would help. I got an SMS seconds later. Great, right? Well, not exactly - the SMS was a giant wall of JAXRPC (Java) stack trace instead of the password! :shock: So somewhere on ACT's servers some fragile code crashes each time a customer attempts password retrieval; this crash message is neatly wrapped into an SMS and sent to the customer!. This would be hilarious if only it weren't happening to me! :|

I've switched my Airtel line back on now and will probably use it for the rest of the night. If my ACT connection continues to be down in the morning their CC is going to get an earful from me.

I wasn't referring to popular torrents with lots of seeders. I was referring to 1 seeder or 1 leecher who happens to be on a Beam connection as well and I max out my speed to that one seeder or leecher. . .which is what I think is what you were referring to peering.

Nope.. A factory reset will delete them as they are not stock android apps. They are add ons by Micromax.

Now since Laxmans gone .. my line up will be 1)Sehwag 2) Rahane 3) Pujara 4) Tendu 5) Kohli 6) Gambhir 7) Dhoni and 4 bowlers .. Why I have put Gambhir as low as 6 is because Indias middle order is very new now .. So Gambhir will lend some experience at that slot .. It wont be easy now at all for India and their dominance at home can easily be ended .. Maybe NZ & Aus wont win the series but England can definately beat us now at home .. I was hoping to see Tiwary in that test line up since Laxmans gone maybe he will be selected now lets see ... Raina can also be a good bet but hes very aggresive for a test player and that doesent help since Dhoni himself plays test cricket senselessly so we need someone who will give more balance ...

TRAI in its recent directive issued to all the telecom service providers providing broadband services, directed to be transparent with their Unlimited plans which are controlled through Fair Usage Policy (FUP). All most all ISPs in India are offering High Speed Broadband plans with unlimited usage. However, most of these plans are controlled by ISPs self defined Fair Usage Policy (FUP). Through FUP ISPs regulate the broadband plan speed and downgrad it after a certain Data Transfer limit.

TRAI has taken a serious note after considering the issues raised by various consumers and consumer organizations regarding ISPs not presenting and delivering broadband services in a transparent manner; and service providers are not providing adequate information to the consumers regarding broadband services including broadband plans with Fair Usage Policy (FUP).

TRAI has also pointed out that some ISPs downgrade the Broadband speed below 256Kbps violating TRAI's definition of "Broadband" stated in Quality of Service of Broadband Service Regulations, 2006 (11 of 2006). TRAI has also stressed on the implementation of various mechanisms to inform customer about his usage; some of them are through SMS or a popup information at network login.

Considering these complaints, TRAI has directed ISPs to ensure following directions with immediate effect.


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Extract from TRAI directive dated 27th July 2012 (4-1/2011-BB & PA )

In order to ensure more transparency in delivery of broadband services and to protect interests of consumers in the telecom sector and to facilitate further growth of broadband services in India and for the reasons mentioned in the preceding paragraphs, hereby directs all the telecom service providers providing broadband services to :

(a) provide on their website and also in all advertisements published through any media, the following information in respect of all broadband tariff plans offered under Fair Usage Policy: -
(i) data usage limit with higher speed;
(ii) speed of connection upto data usage limit; and
(iii) speed of connection beyond data usage limit;
(b) provide information specified in para (a) in printed form to the new subscribers on their enrolment and to existing subscribers through email on their registered email address and through SMS on their mobile numbers registered with the service providers;
(c) ensure that speed of broadband connection is not reduced, in all broadband tariff plans, below the minimum speed specified in Quality of Service of Broadband Service Regulations 2006;
(d) provide alert to the customer at the time of login to the network of the service provider when his data usage reaches eighty percent of the data usage limit bundled with the plan and to ensure that such alert shall be provided at each login after data usage crosses the said limit of eighty percent; and

(e) send alert to the customer either through SMS on his mobile number registered with the service provider or to his registered email, each time when the data usage by the customer reaches eighty percent and hundred percent of the data usage limit bundled with plan opted by the customer, or through Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) at each login by the customer after the data usage reaches eighty percent of the data usage limit bundled with his plan.

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