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Hi all,
If you have any info on the events happening in Chennai, please post it here with the details. It may be a job fair, music show, cricket match, party , anything. All under one roof.
I will come up with an update by next week.
Thanks guys,
Raghav

Hi,

So, I am getting a weird problem with my BSNL Broadband. My password has been reset to "password" but its not working and I am getting error 691 (id/pass error). But I am putting all right info as I am not a new user but 5 yr old BSNL user. 

 

So, it all started when there was some problem in my line and SNR value went down to 6. And then both phone and broadband were dead. DSL Link was not stable at that time. So, I complained and got my line rectified but still DSL link was not stabling. Then my local exchange change some jumper or etc. Then the link got stable. 

But now this error came ERROR 691 and that too when I never changed password and it was saved in modem from before.

So, I thought maybe some generic error,  I call customer care to reset my password. But even after then it wont work.

I tried using all passwords i.e. my old one and the new reset password but its not working at all. All I get is Error 691.

 

So, anyone please help me how to solve it? What could be the possible reason behind this? Coz the exchange people told me that they can see that password was reset succesfully but still not working.

My exchange people have no idea why its happening. They don't even know whats SNR Margin value. LOL

 

Currently my SNR is 7 but the link is stable. Only error is that dialing problem - ERROR 691.

For the last 3 days, I am getting speeds of 0.2 - 0.5 Mbps. While last week I was getting 9.8 dl / 4.8 ul. 

 

I spoke with 2 people at MTNL. One mentioned that I had crossed the free usage cap, which is rubbish as when I checked with another person, I am well under it. The 2nd guy mentioned getting all the joints checked between my building and the exchange.

 

Anyone else in the same predicament?

Google and Motorola said to be working on an Android smartphone codenamed X Phone

rumor right now.

SG All Court Indoor Shoes

Applied for it today. Let's see how it goes.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/zimbabwe-v-india-2013/content/current/story/643679.html

 

 

India will tour Zimbabwe for a series of five one-dayers starting July 24 and ending on August 3, the BCCI has confirmed. It will be India's next international assignment after their tri-series in the West Indies that concludes on July 11.

The first three one-dayers will be played in Harare, with the last two in Bulawayo. India had confirmedtheir tour following a BCCI working committee meeting earlier this month. The trip had earlier been put on hold, with the board citing the 'fatigue factor.' It is uncertain at this stage if the selectors will stick to a full-strength squad.

When India last went to Zimbabwe, in 2010, Suresh Raina captained a young side, and didn't make it to the final of the one-day tri-series.

Looking for the cheapest deal in the market. It has just started appearing on online stores. Flipkart has it for around Rs. 35000.

Manmohan govt blinks, signals splitting Andhra for Telangana

HYDERABAD: Eleven days after TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao began an indefinite fast for Telangana, the Centre on Wednesday announced that the process of formation of a separate state was being set into motion and that a resolution to this effect would be moved in the Andhra Pradesh assembly shortly. Though he did not specify the timing, there is speculation that it may be tabled as early as Thursday.

Do India need smaller states or bigger states?

We are replacing close to 5-6 million MPEG-2 SD STBs at no cost to consumers over the next year. All of this is coming in from internal accruals.

 

But you need to wait for one more year to see many new channels

 

 

 

We have been adding channels in a phased manner; the process will now be accelerated with the MPEG-4 STB. By June-July next year we should be able to revise our channel offerings to consumers,

 

 

http://www.indiantelevision.com/digital/y2k13/july/juldig7.php

Facebook to give away one million 25-song music samplers on Apple iTunes
Online social networking website Facebook has announced that they would be giving away Ten million 25-song iTunes samplers under a new promotional offer in the United States.
Apple has gone into a deal with Facebook to offer this back-to-school promotion and more than 8.3 million [...]

http://news.techwhack.com/4127/one-million...music-samplers/

I wanted to start a new experience thread simply to discuss MTNL VDSL.

Some things to consider before/after taking a new VDSL connection

 

SNR margins (SNRM)
Below 9 dB : Poor experience with lots of HEC and CRC errors. Line will disconnect frequently.
9   - 11  dB : Ok but not ideal. Disconnections will be there if some unexpected variance is introduced by rains, humidity in the wire.
12 - 16  dB : Ideal and realistic value. Expect almost no disconnections as the line has more wiggle room for tolerating variances.
17 dB and up : God Mode. Lucky few get this on VDSL synced at 30 mbps and up. So far I have seen various stats and no one has reported this SNRM (That is because VDSL sync rates are always higher)

 

Higher you sync rate, lower the SNRM will be. Lower the SNRM, lower the connection reliability. Lower reliability means frequent disconnections. Hence ISP's have a setting in DSLAM to artificially increase SNRM value for a particular phone line. Hence you sync at lower rate and line automagically becomes stable.

 

Attenuation may not be that important after all. It reduces sync speeds over a distance but is not an indicator of connection reliability. (You can roughly calculate your line length from it. Do it here)

Apply for VDSL connection only if you are within half km. Otherwise you will get ADSL like sync rates.

I will update this entry with some of our findings. Since VDSL is somewhat new to India, this thread can help some early adopters.

 

Currently the speeds are decent for fast servers. But single streams are slow due to a bottleneck somewhere.

 

Hey! 

            I don't know whats wrong with BSNL i am getting fake results on two of  speed testing websites(I.e. Speedtest.net and bsnlspeedtest.in) . I have tried almost all the available servers in india. I am getting around 1.50 - 1.60mbps on all on them but whenever i try to download something ,the download speed stays at 115-120kBps ? Isn't it supposed to be 200+kBps ? I know i have a 1mbps FUPED connection but i am just curious why the hell i am getting fake results with BSNL network !! 

Hi all there,

 

I bought BSNL HUAWEI 3G 14.4 mbps data card in the year 2012 for 2600 and added plan for around 500 i remember so that time my initial cost to acquire bsnl 3g datacard connection with bsnl 3g 14.4 mbps data card or device was around 3000 Rs. I have been using there service for almost 10 months without much problem with very high speed when surfing late night like 2 or 3 am. I have seen speeds like 12-13 mbps while surfing and 100MB file download would take less than 9 minutes !

 

But since last 20 days my internet disconnects every few minutes. I have called the customer service but they say there is no problem in my account with it having good balance and all seems okay. I registered the complaint on

 

http://mis.bsnl.co.in/pgs/internet/pgwebregn.asp

 

and got a docket number. The case closed at the head office in two days time with the comment " Please check your device is properly connected and if problem persists visit the nearest customer service center which is like 10 KMs from here and costs 22Rs in bus + 50 Rs by auto = 72 Rs one way travel.

 

I went there and met the manager and she told me to call one man who seems to be a technical person there and i have been following up with him and he is going to send one person at my location to check the issue i believe. I am going to follow up with him and see if he can fix the problem. So far for the past 20 days I am with non existent bsnl 3g connection.

 

This is crucial time for me as i have a lot of important work on internet. I suggest you guys to have generic datacard and have the option to connect to any network like reliance or tata or any other in case one fails. If you depend on one network and it fails and no help comes your way for several days then its really a waste of time and money.

 

I had done a recharge of 550 Rs for 3 GB day + 4GB night( this plan has been discontinued now i hear) for a period of 30 days and out of 30 days I had hardly used my card for 7-8 days and since then i have a very unstable connection. It disconnectes every few minutes and it's a pain to connect again and again. I can't use the card on Linux machine at all as i have to unplug the device and plug it in back again to be able to connect so i have no option but to connect using windows which i am not a big fan of these days.

 

So not able to have consistent connection, disconnects frequently..sometimes as early as after 2 minutes of connecting to the netwiork.I am working on it and i am in touch with the technical guy at the bsnl. I wanted to share my experince and know if anyone else is having similar issue from my location? I have used my 3g data card from two locations in Bangalore : Electronic city and BTM area and both the places I am having the issue so i know it's not related to the area where I am.

 

ss3891

Electronic City, Bangalore

I recently ported my Vodafone connection to Docomo. I have a Nokia Lumia 920, but I realized that I'm unable to use my phone's data connection as a wi-fi hotspot. Other devices can connect to my Lumia 920 when internet sharing is turned on, but the connection just doesn't work on the other devices. But I'm able to browse the internet and download on my phone at 3G speeds without any problems. So I just wanted to know, does Tata Docomo block tethering of its 3G connections? If not, are there any manual seetings I need to enter, to enable internet sharing? Please let me know if ay of you are able to use a mobile Docomo connection as a wi-fi hotspot. If this has ben possible for you, that means there is probably some issue with my phone or settings. Please help me out. Thank you.

PROTECT is the coupon code.

This is a verbatim transcript of an email I sent their contact center manager j.nair@tikona.in today

 

Hi all

 

I know that Mr. Nair will not read this email. All your customers who post their grievances on your forum cannot be wrong

 

I have a 4Mbps unlimited connection - User ID 1107736051

 

I stay in Bangalore and am connected through the Vishesh Complex Access Point

 

On and off I have been facing problems with the connection : No connection or dropping connection or low speed

 

The latest instance was yesterday

 

a) At 12:34 PM I tried your toll free number - the standard recording said that all agents were busy. Instead of offering a callback option, the message said that my number was noted down and that I would get a call back - that never happened.

 

At 8:14PM I tried the number again - this time I was told that the wait time was 5 minutes and was offered a callback option that I took - that callback did not happen either

 

c) At 8:50PM I called the tolled number and spoke with Aniketh believing that that the earlier callback requests were logged. I demanded that he puts his manager on the line. He said that if I want a manager I have to email this id. He did not even bother to understand why I was asking for a manager

 

d) From 8:50PM to 9:30PM I tried to send mails from both my Yahoo account and my daughter's gmail account - obviously neither went through because of the network speed issue

 

e) At 9:44 PM Rupesh took my call, confirmed that Aniketh had requested a senior to call me back and that the callback did not happen.

 

f) He 1st mentioned that he was unable to access the Bangalore AP. However on the 3rd attempt he was able to and said that the AP was good and that my roof top device was dropping signals. He organized an engineer's visit today

 

g) Your local engineer Raju ( Ph 9035882309 ) got the connection through but was not able to fix the speed issue. He said the issue was with the main Access point and that he would log a complaint with the concerned team. He seemed to be in a hurry to leave.

 

h) I called you tech support line around 1PM and spoke with Neha ( tolled number ) who said that the problem was not with the Access Point but with the roof top device. When I wanted to speak with a senior she offered a callback in 1 hour - that did not happen

 

i) I called back around 2:30PM spoke with a lady called Shalaka - who also offered a call back that did not happen

 

j) By that time we had a power outage and there was no power when I spoke with a person called Dinesh who said he was an L2. When I demanded that he puts a manager on the phone he said that ( a ) there were no managers on the phone and that he was the senior most person and ( b ) that if I wanted a manager I had to mail you.

 

k) Please tell me how on earth does a customer with a poor / dead internet connection mail your team in an emergency when your other staff are not helpful

 

My technical issue is still not resolved. What I have seen about Tikona till now is that :

 

1) You are a bunch of cheats - your IVR tells lies ( the callback requests are never logged ), your seniors do not heed the callback requests logged with your L1 agents.

2) When you reply to a customer's grievance it is very often in the form of an automated email that does not address the customer's issues

 

This mail goes verbatim on to your grievances forum and all other forums where Tikona customers have complained about your service

 

If any one wants to call me do so before 11:30AM - after that I leave for work and am not back till after 11:30 PM. I do not take personal calls when I am at work

 

Disgusted customer

Shanker

Alrite, for those who are using Unlocked Custom ROMs , there are 20+ accent colors to choose from.

 

WP7 roots tools by heathcliff software now also gives option to make our own color and set it.

 

I'll post the pics from my phone tonite.

 

Using : Rataplan ROM V6.0 for Lumia 710

 

Anyone else using customs ROMs for WP

Hey Everyone,

 

So I've been trying to get this problem fixed for six months now!

 

Ever since January 2013 my line gets disconnected every 3-8 minutes.

I've called the helpline and everything, they claim to have done whatever they can apart from changing the lines since supposedly the lineman is 'Not Responding', yes that's right since the last six months the line man just decided he does not want to do his work.

 

Is there any, I mean ANY alternative to this nightmare!

Due to this issue I've not been able to take a single call (international on my lync) from home, 

and surfing the net is so incredibly frustrating.

Seriously considering switching to Airtel, because for some cryptic reason there is NO, absolutely NO other ISP willing to provide a connection in my area (Juhu, J.V.P.D.).

 

Spearhead was willing to but they wanted 5k connection charge and a 1 year commitment, good luck with that.

 

My Stats:

 

 

 

Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Again is an upcoming Bollywood crime gangster film directed by Milan Luthria and produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor. It is a sequel to the 2010 hit film Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai. The project features Akshay Kumar, Imran Khan, Sonali Bendre and Sonakshi Sinha in signed roles respectively. The film is expected to release on Eid.

 

Sonali Bendre! 

http://goo.gl/K7BEb

 

Awesome. 

I made a thread a few days ago complaining about BSNL's horrible routing. Well it looks like it has been fixed. I thank all the guys who made efforts to bring this to BSNL's notice. Especially Anurag Bhatia who highlighted the issue with much detail on his blog

 

 

http://anuragbhatia.com/networking/bsnl-softlayer-connectivity-problem-possible-fix/#comment-30341

 

Here is the traceroute:

 

Its being more than 2 years since the plan was announced for 2+Mbps i was hoping they would drop there prices for 2Mbps this diwali but they came up with some pathetic plans for 1Mbps

http://techwhack.co/google-androids-stock-keyboard-download-google-play-44824/

 

 

This is great as Google can now deliver updates without requiring a full OS update. 

Hi,

I am a user of 849NU plan of MTNL Triband service since August based out of Navi Mumbai.

All of August, i was very happy to have a lovely connection and good speeds, with a pretty good tariff.
But now since the past 15 days I am suffering from very intermittent net connection.
Although I am connected to the internet, sometimes the webpages take ages to open, and never open, while at other times it opens instantly. Also downloading has the same pattern, sometimes I get very good speeds of upto 200 Kbps, while other times there is no download. Although all download sites show good Triband Speed, but it is the intermittent connection that is the problem.
This problem has crept up in the last 15 odd days, and I have tried everything but no change has been noticed.

Has anyone else faced a similar problem, and if yes, whats the work around. The people at MTNL classify this as a slow connection problem, but that is exactly not the issue, as I do get good speeds intermittently.

Somebody please help me.

Hi, 

I am looking for a television and went to a few stores today.

 

saw a few models like 

 

Panasonic TH-L42ET60D 

Sony KDL 42 W800

Sony KDL 40 W900

LG LA6910

 

Which one of them is the best? and any other models i should look at?

 

Basically looking for a  LED TV around 40 - 42 inch an preferable 3d (all the above are 3D)

 

Let me know your opinions.

 

 

 

 

http://goo.gl/WNljGC

 

 

According to Japanese site RBMen, which discovered a user manual for the device on Samsung's website, at least one of the displays is a 3.7-inch AMOLED panel with 800 x 480 resolution. Other specs include a Snapdragon 400 dual-core chip, 2GB of RAM and LTE support.

 

Really amazing to see such speeds in Kolkata for the first time :mml: Test done on PACKAGE PREMIUM 1050 UNLIMITED NO FUP'S :yahoo:

Last week a guy came and gave a pamphlet stating that they have started a new broadband service called NetExpress. I spoke with the marketing guys and subscribed for 1 Mbps. So far the service is good and the TAT for installation is 1 day, below is the tariff for the service provider

Speed 1 Mbps 2 Mbps 4 Mbps 8 Mbps
Data Usage Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
1 Month Subcription Charge Rs. 499 /- Rs. 799 /- Rs. 1299 /- Rs. 1699 /-

Cons
1.No Auto dialer(each time we need to Provide User ID and Password in case of Disconnection)
2. Mid month plan change is not Possible

Pros
1.No Fair Usage Policy
2.Pricing is somewhat good
3.Once connected it never disconnects
4.Wireless can be configured

So far the experience is good with the provider

Hi guys,

Currently iam on an fup free Airtel broadband connection which gives me 1mpbs in day and 2mbps in the night.
Its costing me almost 2K a month . So i stumbled across you broad band, thier "12Mbps and 1 mbps after fup" seems nice. so to all the people who are using you broad band can you tell me how good it is?
1. How is the downtime?
2. How is the CC
3. Do the service engineers attend your problems promptly?
4. How is the overall quality of service?

 

Thnaks,

TB

I Just resetted my modem at 08:30pm on 28/04/2012 and see the result



If U still doubt, I can post screenshot of my data downloaded from MTNL's site.

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I am using this plan since Dec 2011. You can see that I have downloaded/Uploaded almost 340GB

Before I was thinking that this is temporary.

 

One (1) month old Tata sky HD DVR Recorder set top box. Selling as I cannot take it along due to relocation out of India.

Tata Sky account will be transferred and you'll need to pay Rs 200 to get the set top box installed at your residence with Tata Sky.

 

Asking Rs 4000

Retails for Rs 7250

 

Current location: Prestige Shantiniketan, Whitefield, Bangalore

 

Features:

HD recording

500GB Hard disk

Rewind Forward pause

1080i Resolution

16:9 Aspect ratio

7.1 surround sound

Video On Demand

Series Recording

3D ready

Record from Mobile & Internet

Yesterday i saw an annual plan of UT 5mbps (640KBps) for Rs. 6999/ in Thane. This seems very impressive. A 5mbps unlimited for just 7000 bucks. Even if i get 70%of what is promised I'll get approx  450 KBps and it will cost me about 600 rs per month. Has anyone in thane opted for this plan?  Or can anyone tell me haw are the high speed plans of 5Net in thane or mumbai as well? Do you get the promised speed or at least 70% of the promised speed? I stay in Thane at Brahmand. Thnx.

 

 

Here's the action packed trailer of the upcoming movie D-Day.
Directed by Nikhil Advani
Releasing on 19th July, 2013
Starring: Rishi Kapoor, Nassar, Arjun Rampal, Irrfan Khan, Huma Qureshi & Shruti Haasan

 

Mr Guru Chairman & Managing Director, Celkon Mobiles  Speaking to media in Zimbabwe said Campus series mobiles will have most advanced features like android 4.2 Jelly bean, dual core processors and applications like smart caller, Child protection, Smart locker etc. All these mobiles are priced at sub Rs.5000 range and all these models will be launched to market within this month. Answering to  a question Mr Guru said A60 and A63 are first to come that will be on first week of August and both are priced at Rs.5200 and Rs.4750 respectively.

 

Mr Guru Chairman & Managing Director, Celkon Mobiles  Speaking to media in Zimbabwe said Campus series mobiles will have most advanced features like android 4.2 Jelly bean, dual core processors and applications like smart caller, Child protection, Smart locker etc. All these mobiles are priced at sub Rs.5000 range and all these models will be launched to market within this month. Answering to  a question Mr Guru said A60 and A63 are first to come that will be on first week of August and both are priced at Rs.5200 and Rs.4750 respectively.

 

Mr Guru Chairman & Managing Director, Celkon Mobiles  Speaking to media in Zimbabwe said Campus series mobiles will have most advanced features like android 4.2 Jelly bean, dual core processors and applications like smart caller, Child protection, Smart locker etc. All these mobiles are priced at sub Rs.5000 range and all these models will be launched to market within this month. Answering to  a question Mr Guru said A60 and A63 are first to come that will be on first week of August and both are priced at Rs.5200 and Rs.4750 respectively.

 

Mr Guru Chairman & Managing Director, Celkon Mobiles  Speaking to media in Zimbabwe said Campus series mobiles will have most advanced features like android 4.2 Jelly bean, dual core processors and applications like smart caller, Child protection, Smart locker etc. All these mobiles are priced at sub Rs.5000 range and all these models will be launched to market within this month. Answering to  a question Mr Guru said A60 and A63 are first to come that will be on first week of August and both are priced at Rs.5200 and Rs.4750 respectively.

 

 

Starring : Vijay, Sathyaraj, Amala Paul, N. Santhanam

Directed & Written by: A. L. Vijay

Produced by: Chandraprakash Jain, C.P. Sunil, C.P. Dinesh

Music by: G. V. Prakash Kumar

Cinematography: Nirav Shah

Editing by : Anthony

Studio : Sri Mishri Productions

Distributed by: Vendhar Movies

Music on : Sony Music