256 kbps broadband access!

September 25th, 2005 at 12:34am

My Airtel broadband speed has been upgraded from 128 kbps to 256 kbps by Airtel.

I noticed today that my downloads were way too fast!. Could see transfers up to 300 kbps!. First i thought it was some error, but later, I searched the Airtel website and and confirmed it from Vinu Thomas broadband forums.

So, the new deal is as follows :

  • 256kbps access
  • Unlimited data transfer
  • Rs. 999 monthly + service tax
  • Includes telephone rental + modem rental
  • No free calls on the land line (no issues for me!)

You can find the details here (select home combo). Confirmed the same from customer care too.

Too good to be true. I guess this was possible only because of BSNL’s Dataone broadband service. A direct answer to BSNL. Good for us.


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  • 1. Rk  |  October 1st, 2005 at 12:42 pm (subscribed to comments)

    How is that you get 300kbps transfer for a 256kbps connection ? I guess get very less than rated for BSNL’s connection. Is there some kind of tweak ?
    Someone else also mentioned that 576 Kbps of speed is shown on a 128kbps connection.

    And how did you measure ?

  • 2. Arjun  |  October 1st, 2005 at 12:46 pm

    You can try this link :
    http://www.broadbandreports.com/stest
    and measure the speed of your connection.

    Also, there is a small software called network monitor from Bysoft. You can use that to see the current data transfer speed (and also the amount of data transfered).

    You can get it here :
    http://www.soft32.com/download_76036.html

  • 3. MadMan  |  October 2nd, 2005 at 4:30 pm

    Hey, I thought they screwed up or something, and was going to keep quiet about it, but I’m bloody happy they’ve finally done this.

  • 4. Arjun  |  October 2nd, 2005 at 11:27 pm

    @madman : thats exactly what i thought initially. Its very much possible. .. then just casually did a search on the net! :).

  • 5. Prabhu  |  April 12th, 2006 at 6:54 am (subscribed to comments)

    am using windowns 64bit os, so i need software of beetel modem supporting it. can anyone elp me out pls

  • 6. Rajesh Nayak  |  July 27th, 2006 at 6:52 am (subscribed to comments)

    Hi all,

    You may get maximum data connectivity speed depending on the modem that supports. Even if ISP support 128Kbps it would show as 512 Kbps! N ways, good to here here in India we are gettin technically advanced at the same time our private key players are in competition wit BSNL, end result benefits to the customer!

    Long way to go for cheap n cost effective broadband connectivity here at India.

    Hmm, happy to see our MITan on the net. ME TOO 2001 Passout!!

  • 7. romio  |  August 26th, 2006 at 8:36 am (subscribed to comments)

    i have nokia 3220.and i haved bsnl exel prepaid gprs connection .how to connect internet from my mobile ???

  • 8. gabru  |  September 29th, 2006 at 6:31 am

    Ur modem usually connects @ high speeds but a download rate of 300 kbps on a 256 kbps line is a joke…its theoratically impossible…the rule i use is

    download rate = 10% of ur connecting speed..

    i.e. a 256 kbps connection will on an average offer a download speed of 25.6 KBps

    download speed is measure in Killobytes and connection speed is Kilobits

  • 9. Harry  |  October 29th, 2006 at 1:49 am (subscribed to comments)

    BSNL dataone’s speed is still nice mate..

    Here’s how you calculate the speed.

    256Kbps / 8 = 32 KB/s

    I get a download speed of 38-45 KB/s, means that I am well over 324 kbps speed myself!

  • 10. Christopher  |  October 31st, 2006 at 6:09 am (subscribed to comments)

    hey, are you sure tht it costs on 999 pm? cuz ive 128kbps and i pay the same amount… but am on this free upload/ download… 24 hrs

  • 11. Deepak  |  February 5th, 2007 at 8:52 am (subscribed to comments)

    Need BSNL Broadband Customer care contact details

  • 12. Vijay  |  July 6th, 2007 at 2:22 am (subscribed to comments)

    Hi
    I facing this problem, when i try to connect net through my sony ericsson k500i mobile [Airtel GPRS Mobile Office-Prepaid] in my PC, the error message is appearing as “the page can’t be displayed”. Whether any settings to be changed in the internet explore / mobile.

    kindly reply asasp.

    Have a nice day

    Thanks & Regards

    Vijay
    Bangalore

  • 13. Pawan Pahuja  |  March 5th, 2008 at 3:50 pm (subscribed to comments)

    Hi..!
    I also got twice speed of 256 KBPS and 280 KPS on BSNL broadband..
    I was surprise to see this..
    but I got it only twicein 4 months..
    now i’m not happy cause i have to satisfy with only 25 to 30 KBPS
    speed..

    Pawan Pahuja

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