Hotwire shutting down ?

My Hotwire sever became prepaid afew days back. I subsequently got myself registered for the 96 kbps unltd package for (Rs.885 ie 734+150 LCO charge)My LCO says he cant renew the connection this month coz he has shifted to sify and majority of his clients have switched to the same. He says the company might shut down in afew months time or relaunch itself under a new name.Dont know how much of it is true but the local hotwire engineer has also left and joined sify, nobody is picking up the phone in the call centre as well.should i subscibe to sify? i have no previous experience with this ISP. Or should i subscribe to Airtel 128 kbps untld. ? wat do u guyz suggest Does airtel offer Broadband connection without subscribing for a telephone connection as well?

Go with Airtel, and Hotwire is not shutting down. Maybe your CTO is saying that but they aren't, in fact they are increasing their availability and speeds.

Your CTO ended his deal with hotwire. the ctos' make more profit on Sify than on hotwire

Originally posted by cyberwiz@Mar 11 2005, 05:10 PM
Does airtel offer Broadband connection without subscribing for a telephone connection as well?
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As far as i know telephone connetion is a must for AIRTEL BB

Dont do mistake to come on sify . Go to Airtel BB

Airtel has both topup plan as well as standalone where you do not need to suscribe to a telephone connection. Am using only DSL - Rs 1200 month 256 speed and download cap of 4 GB and no telephone facility.

i had love to have a 256k connection without any limits and phone connection.

hate to say this but i have been on sify for the past 20 days.The service is comparable to that of hotwire in terms of server downtime and speed. Maybe its My LCO who is giving better service then others. I am getting a constant 7.5-7.9 KBps on the 64 Kbps unltd package. The bad part is the download speed cap which seems to come into operation once i download more than 100 MB.Dont know what the hype about airtel customer service is all about. I have called them up twice, they dont even know if they are providing the connections at my place although the website cleary mentions that the connection is available at my place. On probing the call centre lady further i got the absurd answer " sir, we are giving telephone line in your area but not the broadband". Moreover, they are not ready to give broadband without telephone. I already have two MTNL lines, taking a third one makes no sense for me.I am thinking of shifting to spectranet - my cable network is spectranet. Anybody knows how they provide connections - ie over co-axial cable or cat5 cable?

this images pops up, on logon...
bizarre.

Same message appears to me, but I would just like to say to everyone here who is thinking of taking the 128kbps connection, don't. Stick to the 96kbps as the speed doesn't increase one bit. It's sort of a rip off and cheat their customers on it. Bad business practice but speeds still relatively good.

actually, i haven't really experienced much of a difference, in moving "up" from 64k to 96k... what about you, ryan?

Moving up to 128 K from 64 K does feel slightly better, but the real difference in browsing comes when you have atleast 256 kbps.


I have heard that exatt of Mumbai has started operations in Delhi. They have some really good plans check out their website at www.exatt.net

to come back to the subject this thread began with...called up the loca hotwire chap, during a four hour outage this afternoon (the lan conked off and then lit up again, during the typing of the beginning of this sentence.) on asking why 61.16.150.1 could be pinged by hotwireindia.net (on which the welcome images etc are stored) could not, the chap on the other end of the line, while babbling 'sir, aadhe ghante mein theek ho jaayega" let slip that hotwire is being bought out by primus... and that the trouble being experienced was due to interoperability/configuration problems.hmm.hoping someone in this thread or on this board knows more about this change....

Originally posted by testsubjectalpha@Apr 18 2005, 07:33 PM
to come back to the subject this thread began with...

.....let slip that hotwire is being bought out by primus... and that the trouble being experienced was due to interoperability/configuration problems.

hoping someone in this thread or on this board knows more about this change....
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Yup, thats one story doin the rounds. I have also heard that the hotwire fellows(ie the Indian partners) are launching a new company called teamwireless.

Nobody is quite sure but some change has/is occuring at hotwire.

As of right now, asking my CTO guy hotwire is not shutting down he said. He plans to start offereing 512 unlimited on the package. Switching from 64k to 96k is a noticeable difference, but from 96 to 128 is hardly anything if at all.