testsubjectalpha
Regular
some information, from the chap who came over, a few days ago. as always, reliability is suspect. maybe ultra-vires, who seems to have the ear of someone in airtel's management, can ask around about these things.
on being told about the drop in speeds, he said
a. airtel's free installation offer has completely choked their dslams (?)
b. new cables are being laid, to keep up with demand.
c. the double speed offer at night worsens things.
d. "actually" there's a lot of bandwidth available.
but, most disturbing,
e. airtel implements throttling. i.e. if you're a big downloader, you'll be cut down to size by being given less speeds. (by a policy that monitors entire account categories/groups.)
f. the adsl modems they use are absolute raddi, and even internal efforts (by their more knowledgeable guys who goto customer premises) to move from the sastaa chinese maal to better equipment (e.g. Linksys or smc barricade) are being shot down or ignored, by inane arguments like "but we have deployed these modems all over india."
on being told about the drop in speeds, he said
a. airtel's free installation offer has completely choked their dslams (?)
b. new cables are being laid, to keep up with demand.
c. the double speed offer at night worsens things.
d. "actually" there's a lot of bandwidth available.
but, most disturbing,
e. airtel implements throttling. i.e. if you're a big downloader, you'll be cut down to size by being given less speeds. (by a policy that monitors entire account categories/groups.)
f. the adsl modems they use are absolute raddi, and even internal efforts (by their more knowledgeable guys who goto customer premises) to move from the sastaa chinese maal to better equipment (e.g. Linksys or smc barricade) are being shot down or ignored, by inane arguments like "but we have deployed these modems all over india."