On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Mehul Ved mehul.n.ved@gmail.com wrote:
I tried MTNL for a month and have decided to give it up because Hathway has upgraded their plans and are offering the same speed at same rate as I have for MTNL i.e. 1mbps ul for Rs999. But, with Hathway I have barely had any downtime compared to 4 days for MTNL in just 1 month. Also, with MTNL, I have been getting dial up like speeds for 1-2 hour quite randomly for no reason whatsoever. Overall I am not satisfied with the quality of connection from MTNL.
Agree lately, I have had some connectivity problems - during the morning hours, I have found that the modem is in disconnected state. Pulling out the DSL line and reconnecting usually solves it.
Regarding speed issues - get your line checked up. On the ADSL status page, you the various metrics should be in the ranges:
Here is my listing - Item Downstream Upstream Unit SNR Margin 37.0db 21.0db dB Line Attenuation 22.0db 11.5db dB Loss of Signal 0 0 CRC Errors 5 209 Data Rate 1024 Kbps 256 Kbps kbps Latency Fast Fast
My experience with the cable Internet providers (Santacruz West) has been the opposite of yours - seldom got the bandwidth that I was paying for.
-- Arun Khan