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Posted: 14 Nov 2010 02:38 AM PST

NVIDIA.FTW its time for some GAMING :@

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 02:37 AM PST

What Mg said is really the truth . The private companies wont budge and the PSU companies wont move their ass. We need the TRAI and the mad GOVT to rethink its policies and allow foreign operators to invest and build networks. Also they should change the way they charge. Hell even getting broadband at cheaper speeds in pakistan is easier and a less painful process.
I am pretty sure biggies like comcast , telia sonera will be really interested in providing services in India. After all India has one of the biggest and fastest growing subscriber bases in the world. And the broadband connections are only to go up. Regardless wether the tariffs stay the same or increase.

I think the future is that eventually the data content changing hands online will become so large that it will be necessary for the users to have 100mbit+ connections in another 3 years or so.
I mean just think about it, 64bit displays , 8xlayer blu-ray discs, holographic storage, cloud computing. And the internet service will become something like a necessity to survive in this world. Everything will be operated via the network. From your phone, appliances.

I feel its going to be the decade of the internet and the revolution has just begun. As far as the internet plans are concerned coming back to the main point, unlimited plans would not be governed by speed but by data usage. Eventually all the data lines are gonna be clogged up, unless they dont build some more sewage lines. (pardon the expression :D). SO from next year i hope 2mbps @ 599/month :)

national intelligence grid: we have no privacy

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 02:23 AM PST

Well as far this info goes its really hard to implent also you would find ways to find loopholes in the system. There are a very few countries which have such tech prowess to keep continious monitoring of all information carried by digital media. With India having a vast number of internet users and telephone users it would be really difficult to monitor all such information on a 24x7 dedicated system. There is nothing even the CERT can do about this . The government will end up potentially end up spending millions of crores on such a dedicated sytem. To sum it up i dont think its ever gonna become reality. The Babus wont sign their own death warrant. xD

BSNL Broadband: UTSTAR WA3002-G4 vade mecum ( quick reference )

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 02:02 AM PST

I have a UTStar WA3002G4 modem and Windows Vista Home Premium.
sometimes when i am downloading from torrents after half an hour the pc gets disconnected from the modem(bt all lights r on in d modem)
den i hv 2 restart my pc n re-establish d connection.
the same thing keeps happening after every half an hour.
bt there s no problem while surfing on the net for hours together.
Pls help me in this regard.

bsnl modem/ router problem

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 02:01 AM PST

Speed in Unlimited 1400 Plan

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 01:36 AM PST

A few users had to talk with the exchange and get the cap lifted. Talk to them.

bsnl 3g Internet speed

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 01:29 AM PST

^ Its still on. The promotional period is for 90 days from 01-Nov.

There is no speed cep. But mostly speed hovers between 800kbps-2Mbps (In my case, you may get different speed)

and No FUP

Fivenet New Diwali Plan Rs. 5,999 for 1 Year, Upto 10 Mbps speed

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 01:21 AM PST

Quote:

Originally Posted by pa1pa1

This was never a 10mbps plan but an UPTO 10mbps one. And most other providers can't provide a constant 1mbps connection at these prices, so why are we complaining?

Irrespective, a little truth in advertising would be nice for a change. If the connection is supposed to have the potential to reach 10mbit/s, it would be nice to see it come even somewhere close, say 8mbit/s.

Otherwise it needs to be advertised as what it is: something like 1mbit/s with a burst speed of up to 10mbit/s...

Specific Requests for Hayai Broadband

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 01:19 AM PST

There are a few reasons for this - the overall problem could be any one or combination of the following:

Firstly, every ISP in every country along the route between Singapore and the UK uses the same cable to get the traffic to Europe (this is almost always the Sea-Me-We-4 cable), but it's not always routed directly. This means that, unfortunately once the traffic leaves India, we have virtually no control over it, as we are competing with traffic from a number of other countries and/or we may be at the mercy of our upstream providers.

Secondly, because most of the building in the last few years has been India-Singapore or India-US via somewhere in Asia, the India-Europe routes had been virtually left un-upgraded until I-ME-WE came up in May this year, but even then, it's not just one big long cable: it runs through routers in various countries at the landing points, each which introduces some latency, which although minimal, adds up after 20-odd landing points and routers.

And thirdly, India-Europe routes are significantly more expensive than India-Singapore or India-US routes, so most ISPs simply don't buy them: the reason for this is quite literally that we pay per kilometer, so we buy the most suitable routes according to the traffic patterns. I had previously looked at a Mumbai-Marseilles route, but our traffic patterns suggested that it was not worth it at the time, although if our India-Europe traffic increased I would certainly not object to buying an India-Europe route.

For the record, the ping tests we had to London are quite old. I believe at that time there were some routing issues (it happens), so I just ran a quick test (ping and traceroute) from one of our servers, which gave me 287ms to pingtest.co.uk (not horrible, but not that great either) - part of the problem is that the route went via the USA (if there is a particular IP address you want me to look at, I can do that as well).

Otherwise, short of us purchasing an India-Europe route as mentioned above (I will look in to this anyway), I suspect that the only way you're going to be able to lower your ping rates to the UK or Netherlands is to move to Europe or the Caucasus region.

Hayai Broadband Speed Test and Ping Test Results

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 01:18 AM PST

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sadhu

Hello,
Mgcarley,I am currently using MTNL broadband,I am very much interested in you Hayai(fast in Japanese)was that name your idea,anyways,
Ping hayai offers to europe london,Nl is not desirable.I was wondering if it would be possible for Hayai to come up with a solution with less than <170 ping to europe speed is not a major concern here.

Please can u guide me to the necessary channels if i need to post this message or call some one else?

There are a few reasons for this - the overall problem could be any one or combination of the following:

Firstly, every ISP in every country along the route between Singapore and the UK uses the same cable to get the traffic to Europe (this is almost always the Sea-Me-We-4 cable), but it's not always routed directly. This means that, unfortunately once the traffic leaves India, we have virtually no control over it, as we are competing with traffic from a number of other countries and/or we may be at the mercy of our upstream providers.

Secondly, because most of the building in the last few years has been India-Singapore or India-US via somewhere in Asia, the India-Europe routes had been virtually left un-upgraded until I-ME-WE came up in May this year, but even then, it's not just one big long cable: it runs through routers in various countries at the landing points, each which introduces some latency, which although minimal, adds up after 20-odd landing points and routers.

And thirdly, India-Europe routes are significantly more expensive than India-Singapore or India-US routes, so most ISPs simply don't buy them: the reason for this is quite literally that we pay per kilometer, so we buy the most suitable routes according to the traffic patterns. I had previously looked at a Mumbai-Marseilles route, but our traffic patterns suggested that it was not worth it at the time, although if our India-Europe traffic increased I would certainly not object to buying an India-Europe route.

For the record, the ping tests we had to London are quite old. I believe at that time there were some routing issues (it happens), so I just ran a quick test (ping and traceroute) from one of our servers, which gave me 287ms to pingtest.co.uk (not horrible, but not that great either) - part of the problem is that the route went via the USA (if there is a particular IP address you want me to look at, I can do that as well).

Otherwise, short of us purchasing an India-Europe route as mentioned above (I will look in to this anyway), I suspect that the only way you're going to be able to lower your ping rates to the UK or Netherlands is to move to Europe or the Caucasus region.

Please note: this answer has been cross-posted at http://broadbandforum.in/hayai-broad.../5/#post429359