Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 01:52:09PM +0530, Sanket Shah wrote:
the 495 plan or the 599 plan's are pretty good value for money, the 495 plan ends in 5 days.
495 plan: zero rental for landline, 320kbps to 2 mbps burst speed unlimited download. (Me getting upto 245KB/sec in low traffic times)
599 plan: 512 kbps unlimited. Again has burst speeds to 2Mbps (No landline rental included)
Plans look really good, but I've heard lot of people complaining about reliability. Have you faced any issues with your connection?
Also I frequently read posts on this and other linux lists that their modems don't work well (out of box) with linux. How was your experience?
Regards, Nitesh
Yes, seemed like a good plan to me too. I got a connection on 25th of March but couldn't get a stable download link till the 15th of this month. I finally canacelled the connection.
I would get a download for about 15 minutes to an hour and then nothing would come down the pipe for periods of over two to three hours. Not even a ping.
The modem is still lying at my place. The link still takes over two hours to stabilise after switching on the modem. They still haven't found what the problem is.
MTNL has 2 trouble areas but that is curable. One is their DNS servers and the other is their black router that they are now giving with new connections. In these boxes, out of the 4 LAN ports, only 1 and 4 work properly. The center 2 are as good as duds. Other than that the wiring of the telephone line should be good. Avoid too many parallel connections. Buy extra ADSL splitters and add them to the parallel phones, in case the wiring cannot be modified through the single splitter.