Reliance has recently launched Netconnect Broadband+ in Allahabad (U.P.East)
I grabbed one on pre-paid plan today
while today whole evening there were road show kinda activity in the city, lots of cars, bikes, guys with banners, flags etc to promote the ever waited solution.
Initially the speed was 300-350kbps, I was able to call Some senior sales manager who re-directed me to a technical person.
while i was prepared for getting crap answers (have become used to with bsnl) but to my pleasant surprise the guy was aware of the situation and said I am already working on the issue along the team, which is due to expanding to more areas in the city, he gave me a few hours ETA, but a hour or two passed and i re-connected it.
Guess what, it looked like the device was viagra powered now :clap:
I'll be using it as back-up connectivity cause BSNL cannot be trusted, 3G sucks and now bsnl wired broadband goes dead if there's a power failure for more than 2 hours at any time period. Seems the sarkari guys are now even selling the diesel from genset and only allow battery bank to run the tower.
A disaster which BSNL caused today in our family was when my brother-in-law got disconnected from internet while he was on a skype interview with his future employer and the stupid tower battery bank gave up after approx 120 mins of power back up and seems genset was not run, He was asked to wait for a week for next interview, which I am sure is not very promising.
I never felt so bad in last 10 years of my internet life, I was so helpless, wired broadband was off, 3G was not even to show google.com
Airtel/voda/idea were not able to serve skype based call cause they still have only edge service and not 3G, what a life.
Lets Hope Reliance doesn't do this kinda stuff on broadband plan which has come to our town after years of wait.
one thing I've experienced with reliance when using my blackberry tethered modem, Internet worked always(although on 1x speed) even when there was 36 hours of power failure, so I expect same would be applicable to broadband+ equipment too.
I grabbed one on pre-paid plan today
while today whole evening there were road show kinda activity in the city, lots of cars, bikes, guys with banners, flags etc to promote the ever waited solution.
Initially the speed was 300-350kbps, I was able to call Some senior sales manager who re-directed me to a technical person.
while i was prepared for getting crap answers (have become used to with bsnl) but to my pleasant surprise the guy was aware of the situation and said I am already working on the issue along the team, which is due to expanding to more areas in the city, he gave me a few hours ETA, but a hour or two passed and i re-connected it.
Guess what, it looked like the device was viagra powered now :clap:
I'll be using it as back-up connectivity cause BSNL cannot be trusted, 3G sucks and now bsnl wired broadband goes dead if there's a power failure for more than 2 hours at any time period. Seems the sarkari guys are now even selling the diesel from genset and only allow battery bank to run the tower.
A disaster which BSNL caused today in our family was when my brother-in-law got disconnected from internet while he was on a skype interview with his future employer and the stupid tower battery bank gave up after approx 120 mins of power back up and seems genset was not run, He was asked to wait for a week for next interview, which I am sure is not very promising.
I never felt so bad in last 10 years of my internet life, I was so helpless, wired broadband was off, 3G was not even to show google.com
Airtel/voda/idea were not able to serve skype based call cause they still have only edge service and not 3G, what a life.
Lets Hope Reliance doesn't do this kinda stuff on broadband plan which has come to our town after years of wait.
one thing I've experienced with reliance when using my blackberry tethered modem, Internet worked always(although on 1x speed) even when there was 36 hours of power failure, so I expect same would be applicable to broadband+ equipment too.