aDSL Modem Blues…
August 18th, 2004 at 01:48pm
Here is more on my adventures with broadband!
…. As a part of the touchtel package, we get a USB DSL modem on rental basis (Rs. 49 per month, included in the Rs. 700)
Initially, I was given a modem from beetel!…..
It had a beetel logo on it!. The installation went on without any problems…. And I was online in just a couple of mins. Was online for around 10 mins without any issues when the tech guy was around.
That night, I connected, and to my surprise, I got disconnected every 2 to 3 mins !….the connection was not at all stable.
Called up the tech guys again, and told them about the problem. They came down immediately the next day, checked the wiring etc., and finally, found the bug. It was got something to do with some settings on the server side, which was corrected, and after that no more disconnects !
Then started the real fun!…….. Now, I had stable connections without any disconnections!…:) => time to open up shareaza and make full use of my bandwidth :)………..
Started shareaza, and with a couple of mins after running shareaza, I got the blue screen of death on windows XP!. Boooom…….. Did major research on the net, and found that this was to with the modem drivers.
Tried to search for the latest version of the drivers,… and in the process came to know that the modem is actually manufactured by a Japanese company! and actually, its called TERA 100U !!..with a globespanvirata chipset. …the entire site is in Japanese. no english!., but still managed to get the drivers, and found that they are the same version as I had ! Then searched for some generic globespanvirata drivers!,…only to find that the company is taken over by conexant and could not find anything significant at conexant!
Only option left was to get back to tech guys!.. And to my surprise, the tech guy was really helpful and understanding. Without questions, he straight away replaced the modem. This time, a modem manufactured in Delhi!! with a proper conexant chipset. No more blue screen of death!.
Now all P2P programs rock!
Actually, this problem is more noticeable while running any P2P programs. i.e, its got something to do with the way in which these program work ! (may be opening up lot of connections..etc). Infact, I was able to reduce the frequency of the crash by changing the connection settings in shareaza. But could not avoid it altogether. But now, with the other modem, no problems at all. Not seen the blue screen of death since then.
All I can say is, the touchtel customer care is pretty good., and very responsive. Keep it up guys!
Tags: adsl, airtel, airtelbroadband, broadband, dsl, internet, modem, popular, touchtel, USB
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I have an old 100cx [Beetel] connection from airtel, Is it possible for me to convert the usb output to an ethernet output. I recently purchased a Motorola Vonage VOIP Modem and want to connect the modem . please let me know about the same
Comment by C.Premnath — May 23, 2007 #
Hi
I live in Gurgaon and use an Airtel ADSL connection (Plan 699) with a Huawei MT880 Modem that was supplied by my previous service provider BSNL. While the network behaves reasonably well during rest of the day, it becomes slow and unreliable in the late evenings, say after 9pm. At that time, the average ping latency with Airtel DSLAM is about 120 ms (with max reaching 250 ms or more) with 2-5% packet loss. [During rest of the day, it is about 25-30 ms (avg) and hardly any packet loss.]
The customer support guys are working for last one month or so, without getting nowhere to the problem. They tried checking the computer interface, changing the modem, tuning the server side and checking the copper link.
I am inclined to think that the Airtel network is not scaled enough to take the load of the night users.
Can there be some other reason? Is there anybody else (in Gurgaon or elsewhere) facing such problem? I shall appreciate any help in sorting out thus problem.
Comment by Hiranmay Ghosh — May 5, 2007 #
Hi,
I have a Airtel Broadband Home Combo 999 plan in Delhi. The modem is Beetel 220BX and i have it running in the bridge mode eversince i got the connection about a year back. Everything was working fine.
Recently I bought a new system and installed Vista Ultimate on it. It worked fine for a few days and then the browsing stopped all a sudden. I say browsing, as my eMule was still connected and downloading files without any issues. So I called up Airtel and within one hour their representative was at my side to assist me.
He checked a few settings and unbridged the modem and upgraded the firmware for it. The browsing started to work again. But as i needed the modem in bridge mode for the eMule to work properly I configured the device again and got the eMule working.
I was able to browse sites and get the eMule working again. But there is one really annoying thin which is still there. I am not able to connect to any Microsoft site. It is only possible when I unbridge the modem. But this makes the eMule unusable. Airtel tech support is unable to help at this point as all other sites are opening up.
Would appreciate any help in this matter.
My system specification are:
ASUS CROSSHAIR Motherboard
ASUS EN7900GT PCIe
2 X Corsair 1 GB Modules
2 X Seagate 160 GB SATA drives
Window Vista Ultimate OEM Edition
Comment by Mannu — April 17, 2007 #
Hi,
I have an old 100cx [Beetel] that I got from an old connection from airtel, Is it possible for me to convert the usb output to an ethernet output. I recently purchased a DI-624 wireless router and want to connect the modem in bridge mode please let nme know about the same
Comment by Ani — February 15, 2007 #
hi,
how to connect the modem and system through the usb.then where i can get the modem driver.
Comment by Pradheep — January 30, 2007 #
I have the Beetel 220BX Modem (On Airtel) . I have the Modem through a rent-included-in plan basis (i have not purchased it) for a long time. Is there some clause that says that if I pay the Airtel rent for a particular amount of months the Modem becomes mine?
Comment by Akshay — January 30, 2007 #
Can you help me to get ADSL USB Beetel 100 CX Modem driver / software. I was having AIRTEL Connection but now I took BSNL & want to use this Modem. I lost modem driver & Don’t have any source & also AIRTEL also refuse to give the same being now I am not their customer so.
May All you got my problem, can you share with me. I am from Chennai. You may mail to me
Comment by anup — January 23, 2007 #
Hi Arjun,
I have a beetel adsl modem with usb port. i want one with internet port. (rj45?). is it available in the market. if so can you give me the spec. or is this available only in adsl router? in my opinion a router may be costlier than modem, neither my application do not require a router.
can you just some idea?
mohan
Comment by uv mohan — January 11, 2007 #
Does anyone here know how to disable the internal firewall for 220BX modem of Airtel ?
I have no other firewall running / Windows etc….But the hardware firewall may be running. I wish to disable it to run my webserver and check it through a proxy
Comment by Kapil — January 8, 2007 #
Hi .
I have a airtel broadband connecton with a modem of Beetel BX220 series,few days back i could not connect to web, i could ping upto my NIC card but could not ping my modem, then called up the TEch guys from airtel they came and found that LAN port of Modem was faulty, then they got it connected in usb port, now a very strange thing happens. …. when i boot my system with modem in ON position, my PC boots till the user/password when i select any user the PC reboots, …but when my modem is in OFF position it boots normally and after that i put ON my modem and it works fine …. can you please tell me why this happens …..
I have P II, 400 Mhz, 256 MB RAM Win XP Pro
Comment by SkTripathy — January 7, 2007 #