Scraps Stuffs - Random musings from apun ka desh

Finally after much complaining and multiple phone calls to BSNL, their DataOne broadband through ADSL is now operational at home. Yipee!!!

It seems to be stable so far and speeds are decent although I still need to check up the exact download bandwidth. BSNL has this stupid policy of bandwidth limits although this is waived until June of this year. You can't call a service broadband and impose a download limit at the same time! First of all the minimum speed should have been 512 Kbps and not 256 Kbps. The bandwidth limit should have been atleast 10 GB per month and not the pathetic 1 GB that they have in place. One can easily consume about 30 MB in an hours worth of surfing which means that in a little over 30 hours of surfing one would have exhausted an entire month's quota!

Still, this is better than dial-up. We have been racking up bills over four grand a month on dial up and this should bring down the bill substantially, although the second PC is still dial up. Need to find out a way to make both the PCs share the same ADSL service if this is possible.

I would never have thought that broadband was possible away from the main telephone exchanges in Bangalore (we are located in a small exchange outside Bangalore city limits) and this is truly amazing since we live with low levels of expectation from BSNL.