From: sherlock@vsnl.com Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:45:51 +0500 Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] MTNL broadband
On Monday 22 August 2005 00:14, Arun K. Khan wrote:
I have MTNL TriBand out of their Khar(W) xchg. As you said it is good when it works but I have experienced a few outages and was not able to get thru to their support.
Me thinks it is far far better than the other isp's. I had total outages of less than ten minutes, except once when the wire was faulty.
Totally agree that is better than the other consumer ISPs in Mumbai. I was merely giving you a data point since you solicited feedback re: their service. The throughput is consistent around 226 Kbps. IMO, if MTNL can get it's act together on the support end, they could give the other ISPs a run for their money - you get a landline and Internet in one package :)
Regarding the 502T modem, I ran into a couple of weird behaviors:
1. Need MSIE to program port forwarding rules! I cannot notprogram any port forwarding rule using Firefox (Linux and Windoze) or Konqueror.
No problems at all with mozilla, FF, Konqueror or lynx (only used lynx for reading something on the modem). Debian sarge.
Thanks, this gives me a data point. I have static IP and just logged in to modem (FF 1.0.6 SuSE 9.3). Same problem, some of the graphics of the pages do not load :( Time to follow up with the DLink guys. If you could send me the firmware version it would be great.