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gprs setting!!!
Iphone 4 using vodafone (hotspot/tethering)
Airtel Broadband: One year of inability to solve an issue
Aircel cutting balance for no reason
Google's Patent Problems
Stop younger players from playing in IPL?
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Getting 5Mb/s speed on 512kb/s plan!!!!?????

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:58 AM PST

Yes exactly, I connect to BSNL first and then use the vpn dialer.
From the pppoe mode it was just refusing to connect, but I know that vpn works fine in Airtel network with pppoe(my colleagues are using Airtel).

Will post the device info later today.

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Originally Posted by essbebe

In bridge mode , do you have to connect to BSNL first and then
do you type VPN ID and PW in a Dialer? to connect to your office VPN network.
( or you open a website and log in ?)

In PPPoE mode , if you use the dialer for VPN log in what happens ?

Check the Device Info and give the software version details.

gprs setting!!!

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:51 AM PST

Haha, thats nice for the OP then :D

Iphone 4 using vodafone (hotspot/tethering)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:11 AM PST

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Originally Posted by Lurgan

I have been meaning to post an update in case anyone is still following this thread. Your post reminded me, AJ, so thanks for that.

In response:

I don't know whether there's a difference between the Delhi and Kolkata circles, but the Park St office in Kolkata definitely thinks that 3G is available on pre-paid. Is there a place on the Vodafone website that days that 3G is officially unavailable on pre-paid?

You might well be right about the Rs 100 charge, but when activated it also activated tethering for me on 3G, as described earlier. I have no idea of the mechanism.

Thanks for the advice about the Noida Vodafone office. I'll keep that in mind for further enquiries in Delhi.

Update on my problem:

It's more or less fixed! I should say that Vodafone did call after reading this forum, but the person hadn't read the posts properly and maintained that it was just a problem of working through the iPhone menus. The same lack of comprehension, so no help at all.

But I took Garfield's advice, and forwarded an email to the Kol Nodal Officer. That produced an almost immediate callback, but it still took another week to fix the problem. At first, several different officers called and were at least prepared to check the settings on my service on the Vodafone side. They agreed that there was some 'provisioning' needed there, and I'm just about sure that's the same as Garfield said, activating the iPhone APN.

The last person I was in contact with from the Nodal Office was extremely helpful and called back at least four or five times, when she had promised to do so, to tell me that she was waiting for some other department to do the 'provisioning', to tell me when it was done and to check that everything was working later. She even called back the following day to make sure it was still working! That last couple of days was fantastic service from Vodafone; it's just a pity it took weeks and weeks, and a lot of misinformation from them, to get to that point.

The moral of the story is probably, as Garfield and others said, to go to the Nodal Officer. At least there they seem to feel some need to deal with you and keep in contact about your problem.

Finally

The above fix all happened in Varanasi, so it's the Eastern UP circle. I have just come back from a week in Bihar and the behaviour of my connection there was extremely unpredictable. Sometimes I had Vodafone 3G and everything including tethering was fine. Sometimes I had only an Edge connection, but that was still OK for data and tethering. Sometimes I had just a basic Vodafone connection of some other sort that was only good for calls and SMS. Other times I had no connection at all for hours, and sometimes my phone gave me an Airtel connection (all this automatically). It was impossible to get and hold a 3G service by selecting 'Vodafone' manually. And this was all in Patna! And yes, I reset the network settings plenty of times.

Strangely enough, in rural Bihar I seemed either to have no connection at all or a useful 3G or Edge one.

I can only put this down to network vagaries in Bihar. and I'm not planning to spend a lot of time there so it probably isn't crucial.

Thanks for the help from the forum and especially Garfield.

Hello Sir/Madam,

Please email us at vodafonecare.kol@vodafone.com for any assistance in future or you can also call us on our toll free number 198, we'll do our best to help.

Kind Regards,
Vodafone Customer Care, Kolkata

Airtel Broadband: One year of inability to solve an issue

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:09 AM PST

It is called the 1699 DSL Combo Streamer Plan (1Mbps). See below. As per this plan my FUP should be 100GB, yet my limit has been brought down to 30GB and my speed upped to 2Mbps. Amazing isn't it?

Aircel cutting balance for no reason

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:54 AM PST

TATA DOCOMO also does the same. Once they deducted my Rs. 20 for no reason and their CC "executives" refused to accept the fact that some amount was deducted from my account. Their nodal team consists of rude jerks who believe in shouting at customers. Pathetic.

Google's Patent Problems

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:54 AM PST

I am not quite in favour of this judge. If he has his way, he would rather have Oracle pay Google just because he loves Google. So far he has shown almost negligible interest in this case, scrapping most of Oracle's claims without even bothering to go through them, and trying to masquerade as messiah of open technology

Stop younger players from playing in IPL?

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:45 AM PST

India news: Punjab bars Under-21 players from Twenty20 | India Cricket News | ESPN Cricinfo

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The Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) has barred its Under-21 players from taking part in Twenty20 cricket, including the lucrative Indian Premier League. The decision was taken at the state association's Administrative Committee meeting in Mohali on Sunday and will need to be ratified at the next Executive Committee meeting.

The move comes at a time when the Indian Premier League has been cited as one of the reasons for India's abject surrender of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia, where the visitors have lost the first three Tests, the last two by an innings. "The idea was being discussed among PCA members for some time now," Sushil Kapoor, the PCA spokesperson, told the Mumbai Mirror. "It was felt that youngsters were losing their focus and were not ready to grind it out during the two, three or four day games."

Punjab is the first state association to restrict its players from the shortest version of the game, and their stand is counter to other associations such as Maharashtra, Karnataka, Orissa and Jharkhand that have started their own T20 leagues. The board is aware that some players may not be happy about the decision, but association secretary MP Pandove said it was done in the larger interest of cricket.

"Look, we are the first Association to take this step in the interest of players, many of whom I know will not like it," Pandove told PTI. "We strongly felt that 17 to 21 years are formative years for any player and there should be no distraction. The step which we have taken is in the larger interest of players and the country's cricket as a whole."

BUT...

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Punjab has allowed one exception to their ban. Players who are contracted by BCCI will be allowed to play Twenty20 cricket even if they are under the age of 21.