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I'm using Spectranet @ New Delhi / 768 UL.

TIA

It seems Star Sports Premium HD - Ad free channel for T20 World Cup at Rs 200 is started on TATA SKY. This channel is ad-free and will be available for T20 World Cup.

So anybody prefers ad-free broadcast or happy with ad-supported channel

Is it becoming like Paid app Vs Free app on mobile

General Elections for electing 16th Loksabha members would happen in 1 year from now. It may even happen within 1 year as well if situation arises like current govt decides to call early elections or looses majority if coalition partners pull off support (which is less likely). So who could it be forming new govt? BJP or Congress? NDA or UPA? Narendra Modi or Rahul Gandhi? Sushma Swaraj or Manmohan Singh? Arun Jaitley or P. Chidambaram? What impact Arvind Kejriwal would have on these elections? And finally will any 3rd front succeed in forming govt at Centre?

Updated on 21 March 2014, following links added-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_general_election,_2014  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Democratic_Alliance_candidates_in_the_Indian_general_election,_2014  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Progressive_Alliance_candidates_in_the_Indian_general_election,_2014  

http://www.bitdefender.com/media/html/betanews/

Fill you details and click get free license.

Lets see how long this lasts.

May be Ideal plans as a solid back-up internet

http://mtnlmumbai.in/index.php/usage-plans

Hey friends,

I installed BSNL BB with Combo ULD 800.

AS per plan speed should be max. 1mbps upto 6gb. But i am getting 1.6mbps speed as per speed test (measured on speedtest.net). How it can be possible. Can any 1 answer??????????????????????????????????????????????

BSNL has taken 2 month to install Landline but bb installation is very quick (2 days after application).

Till now i am satisfied. I am in Vadodara, Gujarat region.

You ppl also can share your experience for this plan and BSNL service. 

I dunno where to post this but if its in a wrong section, admin please move it to right one.thanks

I have a software running in my office on the local network and all the PCs have the access to it thru web browser. The problem arises is i dont want to assign a fix IP to the server PC and its IP changes as DHCP is enabled. Is it possible to enter a PC's name(server) in the address bar with the link to the software to open.(eg..server/abc.php)? so instead of ever changing IP address i can input the name to access the software. I have seen this somewhere and dont know how to implement it. Any suggestions? All this is needed on local network only and no net connectivity is involved. Thank You.

Got a popup message yesterday that with effect from 1.4.2014, all Star Sports channels would cease to be part of any package and would be available only on an A-la-carte basis.

Though the list isn't very exciting in itself except Swype.
 
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We are the first Company to launch a Docsis 3.0 network in the country," said Hathway Cable & Datacom MD & CEO Jagdish Kumar. "With our Docsis 3.0 network supplied by Cisco we are ready to deliver Ultra High Speed Broadband upto 50 Mbps to every retail customer in South Mumbai.

Hathway Docsis 3.0 plans start from monthly Rs 599 and go upto Rs 1499 for the 50 Mbps plan which offers 50 GB of download data.

Read more here: http://www.indiantelevision.com/digital/y2k13/oct/octdig15.php

The network is initially being deployed in South Mumbai and has been extensively tested. All existing and new customers of Hathway Broadband in South Mumbai can upgrade to the Docsis 3.0 plans. The customers will be provided a Docsis 3.0 Modem by Hathway which will be capable of supporting the ultra high speed plans. The company plans to rollout the Docsis 3.0 network in Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad during this fiscal.

 

The network is initially being deployed in South Mumbai and has been extensively tested. All existing and new customers of Hathway Broadband in South Mumbai can upgrade to the Docsis 3.0 plans. The customers will be provided a Docsis 3.0 Modem by Hathway which will be capable of supporting the ultra high speed plans. The company plans to rollout the Docsis 3.0 network in Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad during this fiscal.

http://www.smartinvestor.in/market/story-203249-storydet-Hathway_introduces_ultra_high_speed_internet_in_South_Mumbai.htm

As tier-II and III cities in India open up more to electronic retailing, India Post wants to exploit this opportunity by providing e-commerce players last mile connectivity to their customers.
India Post (also known as Department of Posts) wants to restructure/re-build its parcel network, operations and delivery set up to meet the needs of e-commerce players to cater to their need for transportation and delivery of parcels/packets.

I am looking for one actually. 

'm using bsnl can anyone tell me,
can i use urban  plan,  I'm  is it alloweed ?  As in my case, my telephone exchenge is rural as i am in a village, but we don't get broadband activated from my telephone exchange as they don't do anything related to broadband here except maintining the wires. Everything like broadband activation, plan change or any request related to broadband is handled at the Urban Telephone exchnge which is 53 kms from my place(as my rural exchange comes under that exchange)     which is 50km    from here,
but I'm  getingggg  speed,    Please contact me asap thank u.

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Micromax Funbook Ultra HD P580 is a 3G tablet with latest Android v4.2.2 Jelly Bean OS and powered by 1.2 GHz Quad Core Processor. It has 7.8 inch IPS display with the resolution of 1280x720 pixels and has dual camera 5 MP inbuilt in the rear and 2MP front camera. The tablet supports voice calling dual camera too for the user. The tablet supports the super fast connectivity to internet as it has 3G capability. Hence, giving its customer a great user experience. Micromax Funbook Ultra HD P580 is loaded with superb multimedia features as well. It also has an inbuilt radio for the entertainment of its user.

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I wish it was funny  

Hi ..

I am new here.

Need to know whether vodafone 3g works on roaming? ie was planning to go goa soon and so wondering about the roaming charge or is it free ?

is 654rs plan 3gb UL ? showing unlimited plan?

Regards

AJ

Here's why you should never get a 4G LTE data card from airtel.

Dont get me wrong, the service is good - although a little overpriced. The speeds were high and the pings were low as long as i was using it.

But where it fails is when you try to end the subscription. - The only way to cancel is to call the customer care number and request a cancellation. They will give a confirmation which is in no way verifiable.

I called to request cancellation on 15th of February, was asked to pay that month's due. Paid it, called back and requested cancellation again - at which they confirmed that the connection had been cancelled.

I get another mail on the 26th of february enclosing the bill for that month. - I call the service center and they say that my connection is very much active. - I raise a complaint that I had already requested cancellation which apparently was not done. And request cancellation again.

This time they thankfully process it - although i keep getting a call every 2 days about the last bill that was generated - after i was told that the connection was cancelled. Every time I tell them there is an open issue regarding that last bill.

Ive cleared the bill now - partly because Im tired of their calls. and partly because I heard they send court notices to defaulters and i dont want to risk my clean record.

But this is nothing more that a broken system or really really cheap tactics to bleed money from customers. In either case, shame on them.

Please stay away from this company.

I've upgraded my Old STB to New MP4 compatible STB about 8-11 months ago. Its worked fine for the first 1 month (warranty period of free STB). But after that I'm constantly experiancing random reboots and while watching programs channel automaticaly changes from one to other (freaky when whatching a horror movie alone ). Some of my friends who also upgraded along with me also facing the same problem. Is anyone else facing similar problems?

Saw posters just now in Chennai (Teynampet area)

Called up the number. They are covering entire Mylapore now. Surroundings (Adyar, Besant Nagar etc to be covered in a month). Rest of Chennai soon after... So, lets see...

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.

Hi,I would like to know when ACT Broadband ll come to in my area..Living in chennai Arumbakkam M.M.D.A Colony.I am strucking with airtel after FUP.

If ACT come in my area it would be more better.

I am in prime Location but ACT is no feasibility..Eloborate ur service

Feedback whether positive or negative should be passed to the appropriate person. That's what I believe in.

This is the timeline of how my installation experience has been with ACT BB

11 Nov-2013 - I applied for a new ACT BB connection today in Kundanahalli Gate, Bangalore. I will keep you posted on the developments.

12-Nov-2013 - At 1616 hrs, IST I receive a call from Mukund who is the ACT technician saying that the wiring has been completed to my apartment on the third floor and i would be receiving a call today at 1700 hrs, IST for username and password. Mukund confirms that I can use my internet connection from tonight.

I would term this as awesome service from an installation perspective, although I would have to wait and watch how stable the connection is post installation.

12-Nov-2013 - Cabling has been completed and just received the credentials for my broadband account at 2059 hrs, IST through email and the registered mobile number. A confirmation call was made from the customer care before the account got activated.I am still out, so I gotta go and check how the connection is. I will keep you posted.

I have connected the cable from ACT BB to my Netgear WGR614 router.

http://reviews.cnet.com/routers/netgear-wgr614-54-mbps/4505-3319_7-21218238.html

In case, someone wants to have the contact details of the sales person & field engineer of ACT for Kundalahalli area, let me know.

Speed test shows rocking upload and download speeds. I am on Act FORCE plan.

12-Nov-2013 1159, IST - First level checks indicate amazing speeds with YouTube where I can watch videos without buffering in Full HD.

I will keep posting various workloads I consider to be bandwidth intensive and would update this thread.

Any downtime or disconnections will also be reported.

Hello guys,I'm planning to shift from BSNL to ACT,after going through the reviews,i m having mixed thoughts and confused.so i have few questions,if that are cleared and if I'm satisfied with those,i'll be shifting to act from next week.

1) i already own a Belkin N150 Wireless Router with Modem f9j1004v1,is this good enough for me to continue with ACT? (This is my main concern as its been just few month since i bought this modem and i don't want to spend again for new modem! )

2) is the speed really good enough? 

3) How is the customer support? (from what i saw they are very bad,is that OK thing? )

4) Does Internet get Disconnected very frequently? (Internet is very necessary for me,because of my work)

( I am from Bangalore,560-021)

15 days back I shifted my place and did a biggest blunder of applying for ACT Broadband despite a friend suggesting me otherwise. Since connection was establish every now and then I would loose connectivity for 3-4 mins and then it would come back automatically. I neglected that aspect as it was manageable and not that pain. but this saturday I lost it for almost 30 mins and I decided to call customer care. a very prompt and polite guy answered the call and he escalated it to the field technician. After 2-3 hrs I spotted an ACT guy in my building trying to take out a new connection from box set in front of my flat . I thought he came to fix my issue but he said he is not aware of my case and upon repeated request he was least bothered to look into my issue . I also asked that when a existing customer fro same box is not getting connectivity you should fix that first instead of pulling out a new connection but as usually it fell to deaf ears and they finished their work and went away. Today morning I was promised that it will be fixed with 2-3 hrs and that  hour didnt come so I decided to give them a call. and moment I said that if you cant fix the issue terminate the connection and Lady was more than happy to accept the request. within seconds my request for termination was raise. 

This kind of egerness to raise termination of service request  was something new in last 6-7  years in Bangalore. I did loose lots of money and reputation since I failed to migrate someones website which I promised to do on weekend and this reckless attitude pissed me off even further. I am in process of applying for Airtel connection now and I am damn sure they wont suck like this. If someone from ACT is watching this thread you can keep my hard earned money and I am not going to recommend anyone to go for ACT in coming days. Your service is worse than Reliance and you are not going very far with this kind of after service .

Airtel dth has added Zee khana khazana on channel no.328

Topup to avail for price Rs. 30 for a month, not available in all packs though

Hi All,

Please help if you can configure LAN port to WAN port.

I have purchased DLink Wireless Router with Modem model No:-D2750U which has 1 ADSL port and 4 LAN port. 

The main problem is my internet connection is of Wired connection and it has RJ45 port. But my router has RJ11 port because of which im not able to use my router.

Please let me know if there is any way where we can one of the LAN port as WAN port

Hi All, 

  I got ACT 2 months ago. I am the first one who got the connection in my area and I referred two friends too. They installed the panel box in my home and I personally supervised the installation. They clearly explained me that there will be a internal battery in the box and that will support the router when the power goes off. But after sometime the promise went for a toss. Whenever there is a power failure the internet goes down. It is illogical since most of us use Laptops which can support 4 hours of backup. I raised complainants 4 times so far the best part is they will close the issue on their own and I need to call the customer care every time to understand the status of the ticket. 

Complaints raises so far : 0001791667,0001812313(missed the other 2 nos)

My Account ID : 10704370

Is it just Vodafone or are all the operators charging fixed rental ( i.e. NOT PRO-RATA) for data services ?