unixguru88
Newbie
I am an irritated customer of hathway, they banned me because exceeded the download limit of 3gb(for 3 months😡) but continued to download gigabytes of data during the 10hr free period from 11pm to 9am. I want to shift and as I am already having airtel telephone, it seems to be a logical choice except nothing is mentioned about unlimited downloads in the night. Dataone offers free form 2 to 8 and assuming a conservative speed of 1mbps, you can still download a lot. The unlimited plans are okay except 256kbps in 24 hrs is equal to 1mbps in 6hrs so it really isn't worth the money. Also I heard that they offer double speed in the night(seems logical, a lot of bandwidth will go waste in the night). Is this a random feature as mentioned in the posts or do most customers get but just don't about it as they are sleeping? From the website I gather there is no upload limit, so I can seed torrents during the day which I can't do in dataone? So which plan do I choose from this list.
I am currently looking at 925 combo(assuming optimistically it has night time free download) and unlimited 999. Any other suggestions? one last questions, If I use my connection only for legal stuff, say heavy browsing downloading free software(no linux distros!), games, legal mp3's, streaming media etc., will 3gb per month be enough? I am asking this because the cheat hathway will charge 20-25 mb for about 1 hr of browsing and I think they keep pinging my ip or something because if i just keep the modem on for about an hour or so doing nothing , it registers 3-4 mb in their site.
I just called up airtel and guess what, they are planning to introduce a new slab based plans from september. It's a little confusing and the sales guy was not very sure about the details but from what I understood it goes like this:-
[*]The download speed now is determined by the amount of data transfer you have done. There are two seperate download limits, one for daytime and one for night time. The only plan the guy knew about was with a download speed of 1mbps for the first 3gb of data transfer, 512 kbps for the next 2gb and 256kbps for the next 1gb during daytime. The night time(11-7) offers double speed and double data transfer as above.
[*]If you exceed the 6gb limit during daytime you have to pay 200 rs/gb extra downloaded and your daytime speed will be capped to 256 kbps. During night you will still have to pay 200 rs/gb but connection will be capped at 512kbps. I am not sure whether 1mb extra and 999mb extra will mean the same thing in terms of payment and the sales guy was'nt too clear either.
[*]The biggest advantage in this plan is that they are going to start a website from which you can download at full speed and without counting in data transfer. You can request for files posting a link to the file in the forum and one of the admin's will check out the file and if the file is legal he will make it available in the website. Obviously, this rules out all torrents and only direct downloads of legal stuff are allowed. This way I can download latest multi gigabyte game demos and linux distros without the metre ticking.
[*]The plans will come under slab 999, he did not know the details of the phone connection but who cares.
[/list]I feel this plan is a nice step from airtel to combat bsnl's plan and I think airtel will be able to provide nice speeds for all users with the slab based plans. I hope they launch it in chennai soon!
I am currently looking at 925 combo(assuming optimistically it has night time free download) and unlimited 999. Any other suggestions? one last questions, If I use my connection only for legal stuff, say heavy browsing downloading free software(no linux distros!), games, legal mp3's, streaming media etc., will 3gb per month be enough? I am asking this because the cheat hathway will charge 20-25 mb for about 1 hr of browsing and I think they keep pinging my ip or something because if i just keep the modem on for about an hour or so doing nothing , it registers 3-4 mb in their site.
I just called up airtel and guess what, they are planning to introduce a new slab based plans from september. It's a little confusing and the sales guy was not very sure about the details but from what I understood it goes like this:-
[*]The download speed now is determined by the amount of data transfer you have done. There are two seperate download limits, one for daytime and one for night time. The only plan the guy knew about was with a download speed of 1mbps for the first 3gb of data transfer, 512 kbps for the next 2gb and 256kbps for the next 1gb during daytime. The night time(11-7) offers double speed and double data transfer as above.
[*]If you exceed the 6gb limit during daytime you have to pay 200 rs/gb extra downloaded and your daytime speed will be capped to 256 kbps. During night you will still have to pay 200 rs/gb but connection will be capped at 512kbps. I am not sure whether 1mb extra and 999mb extra will mean the same thing in terms of payment and the sales guy was'nt too clear either.
[*]The biggest advantage in this plan is that they are going to start a website from which you can download at full speed and without counting in data transfer. You can request for files posting a link to the file in the forum and one of the admin's will check out the file and if the file is legal he will make it available in the website. Obviously, this rules out all torrents and only direct downloads of legal stuff are allowed. This way I can download latest multi gigabyte game demos and linux distros without the metre ticking.
[*]The plans will come under slab 999, he did not know the details of the phone connection but who cares.
[/list]I feel this plan is a nice step from airtel to combat bsnl's plan and I think airtel will be able to provide nice speeds for all users with the slab based plans. I hope they launch it in chennai soon!
