Well i m currently on a cable ISP and i get a minimum of 8-14 hour downtime a week and i m tired of shouting at their customer service. Okay so wimax is out. Any other options that allow me to have decent ping and download speed.
That kind of downtime is very much understandable - I can see why you're frustrated (I would be blowing my top).
The question that needs to be asked is: is it the cable operator that's having the problems or is it the ISP itself?
PS- just read your interview 15 mins ago. Hope to see hayai in kolkata too. Broadband in this sector and northeast is such a joke.
We know. We hope also to be in Kolkata very soon (as well as several other metros).
Im pretty sure i will be leaving india if this continues.
In some cases, that *is* the only way to get better ping times to US or EU servers. At the moment about the best you can hope for from (in my case Mumbai) to Europe is maybe 120ms if you're really lucky or about 140-150ms to the US.
For gaming, even these pings are a bit high, but there isn't much that can be done about the laws of physics, and you might even be better off switching over to Indian or Asian game servers.