How to check if BSNL evdo will give me speeds at my place before i purchase it?

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[font="'comic sans ms'"]I am from ahmedabad, Vatva. I was using local SpidiGo internet from past 2 years. a month back my spidigo guys told me that there is some problem with their local AP and hence i will be refunded my money. I applied for tikona internet provider, the guy from tikona did show up today but told me that connection at my place is not possible since he can not get a LOS to his AP.

Reliance Wimax is to expensive. Airtel/Tata broadband are not available at my place. so now the only players who remain are Dongles and data cards. I have used unlimted broadband plans from past 4 years, and hence would like to continue using unlimted in future as well. but when i did some research for the datacard/dongle plans by various providers and came to know that most of the so called "Unlimted plans" by tata photon, reliance netconnect +, and MTS blaze only provide good speeds untill few GBs a month.

Now the only thing that remain is BSNL evdo Which according to my research actually provides unlimited internet at 750 a month. but since it is BSNL obviously it was hard for me to gather information regarding how to get the connection and things.

Now the only concern i have is that, i know that BSNL evdo provides only 144kbps where it doesnt have the "high speed" signals. I am worried that if i buy a new evdo , in my home i may not get the speed.

So my question is : How do i check bsnl evdo speed in my house, without having an evdo ? I dont have any friends who use evdo. however i do have freinds who have BSNL sims. so can i check BSNL sim signal such as if its HSPA or EDGE ? does that matter?


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Akif
A worried internet user[/font]
 
BSNL ev-do has coverage in vatva area. You can head over to vatva exchange and ask for demo at your place. They will give you the demo. I have been using bsnl evdo since 2008 in ahmedabad and it is very much stable option for unlimited downloading. Bsnl ev-do in ahmedabad is rev.A i.e. upto 3.1 mbps. So you would petty much get at least 1 mbps but all depends on how far are u from tower and location. Ask for demo they should provide it.
 
Thanks for the reply.I will head over to BSNL exchange tomorrow, and ask for a demo. And one more thing.. I dont need a bsnl landline at my place to ask for a connection evdo right?Akif
 
Hey, I did get a connection of evdo. Works fine. 150-200 KBPS download speed.But one weird thing though. I have paid the Device price + Activation Charge + Unlimited plan (750 + tax = 850 almost) . So I assume i do have evdo plan activated on my card. But whenever i download something, It says "You have consumed XX Rs. and your balance now remains XXX". If i am on unlimited plan why it keeps telling me the balance. when i connected the modem it had a balance of almost 1100 now its 850..! Is there something i should be worried about.?
 


Thats nice to hear that. Good speed. Do check with Cc. Call 1504 from BSNL LL or mobile. I'm on postpaid so don't have much idea about prepaid.
 
Akif said:
Hey, I did get a connection of evdo. Works fine. 150-200 KBPS download speed.But one weird thing though. I have paid the Device price + Activation Charge + Unlimited plan (750 + tax = 850 almost) . So I assume i do have evdo plan activated on my card. But whenever i download something, It says "You have consumed XX Rs. and your balance now remains XXX". If i am on unlimited plan why it keeps telling me the balance. when i connected the modem it had a balance of almost 1100 now its 850..! Is there something i should be worried about.?
check whether u are having that UL , even on UL plan i get these kinda messages after certain time of usage but only the xxx MB consumed , balance XXX and validity
 
MediaFire said:
check whether u are having that UL , even on UL plan i get these kinda messages after certain time of usage but only the xxx MB consumed , balance XXX and validity
I think I dont have that activated. The balance is being deducted from my main acconut. anyways i tried sending STV 825 to 53733. but i did not get any reply. How do i check if i have UL? if not how do i activate it via sms?
 
there isnt any SMS activation method and by default it goes to 750 UL plan , please check with the BSNL office only they can help u with this
i never did any plan activation thru SMS even when i got the SIM , when the balance was above 750 , its gets deducted and goes to UL plan
 
So i figured out. My Plan was not activated as UL.Just in case anyone runs into the same problem again, If you have just purchased evdo card, and you are getting XXX rs used after every internet usage, you probably don't have UL yet. in my case, i went through my recharge history which revealed that i had 4 recharges done by BSNL exchange people when i purchased the card1.) 1001Content:Your bal after recharge is 399Rs. Expiry date is 14-08-2014 Grace period up to 29-08-2014. The money you recharged is 0paisa.Time:2014-02-15 14:59:292) 1001Content:Your bal after recharge is 841Rs. Expiry date is 14-08-2014 Grace period up to 29-08-2014. The money you recharged is 442Rs.Time:2014-02-15 15:01:39
3) 1001Content:Your bal after recharge is 841Rs. Expiry date is 14-08-2014 Grace period up to 29-08-2014. The money you recharged is 442Rs.Time:2014-02-15 15:01:394)1001Content:Your bal after recharge is 1149Rs 50paisa. Expiry date is 14-08-2014 Grace period up to 29-08-2014. The money you recharged is 308Rs 50paisa.So what i see from above is that. my total recharge of 750 was done in two parts. + initial 399 which bsnl provides. so it sumed up to 1149 rs worth of talk time. but in order use unlimited data plan one need to do special recharge of 825 (or according to your need other plans)This is what i did before a while : I went to Paytm. Recharged with 825 special recharge option. Now the message i get after using internet is "You have consumed .Your balance: XXXX. Expiry date: 14-08-2014. Grace period up to 29-08-2014.UNLIMITED DATA1Rs.EXP:18-03-2014."So i suppose, now i am on UL plan.May god bless all of us BSNL users with courage and patience do deal with BSNL.
cisco_tech said:
Thats nice to hear that. Good speed.Do check with Cc. Call 1504 from BSNL LL or mobile. I'm on postpaid so don't have much idea about prepaid.
Sorry, I totally missed your above reply. Thanks for the advise and everything
 
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