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Old 12-28-08, 12:19 AM   #1
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Default Airtel Suddenly gave me 2mbps
Recently ie 25th of December 2008 to be precise Airtel broadband service gave me 2mbps speed
I dont know what the reason was and after 24hrs it came back to normal 256kbps. I didnt ask for speed on demand or anything.
It was such a dissapointment when it was switched back. Any way I was wondering if the pros in this forum could help me explain what the reason was and is it possible to get those speeds again.
My plan right now is 256kbps UL
My circle is Bangalore Karnataka
Thanks in advance
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Old 12-28-08, 08:47 AM   #2
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Simple - a mistake from their side.
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Old 12-28-08, 08:07 PM   #3
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lol this is not a mistake.
I had Airtel 2 mbps broadband for 8months for free. They took it off on Dec 25th. Now i m stuck with 128Kbps again .

My fren Harsham had even posted some of my screen shots on this forum showing my download speed. Those were the days ..........

and they had told me its a 1 month free trial.
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lol this is not a mistake.
I had Airtel 2 mbps broadband for 8months for free. They took it off on Dec 25th. Now i m stuck with 128Kbps again .

My fren Harsham had even posted some of my screen shots on this forum showing my download speed. Those were the days ..........

and they had told me its a 1 month free trial.
So this is not a mistake on their part? I am
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Old 12-28-08, 09:38 PM   #5
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I don't know if it is a mistake i also got some severe boost in speed on 14- 15 dec i guess just for 3hrs i guess

My Download speed was like 350KB/s And i download 1.36Gb of film in less than 1/2 hr Which was awesome hope i can get more speed boosts like this every now and then but back to normal to my usual 384kbps
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Old 12-29-08, 01:41 AM   #6
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So u guys think there is a way of getting it back ie. those speeds
Is there a hack to remove the limiter or someting
I really miss those speeds
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Old 12-29-08, 03:48 AM   #7
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Recently ie 25th of December 2008 to be precise Airtel broadband service gave me 2mbps speed
I dont know what the reason was and after 24hrs it came back to normal 256kbps. I didnt ask for speed on demand or anything.
It was such a dissapointment when it was switched back. Any way I was wondering if the pros in this forum could help me explain what the reason was and is it possible to get those speeds again.
My plan right now is 256kbps UL
My circle is Bangalore Karnataka
Thanks in advance
Nothing new , it happens every other month for me as well , I have reached speeds up to 3 Mbps also , the good part is that since I am on a PPPOE setup , once I get a speed hike then the speed burst remains till I turn off my modem , not like I want to but accidents can happen like the maid accidentally hitting the power adapter and stuff . Once I got a speed hike for about 10 days + downloaded up to 180 GB with it !!! expect this kind of things from Airtel every now and then , that's why its my Fav ISP , check this forum , you will see many people using Airtel saying the same thing , however there is nothing that can be done on your machine to make the speed boost permanent, I guess this is something that happens at the exchange level , whatever it may be , when it happens , you get an uncontrollable urge to download anything and everything !!!
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Old 12-29-08, 09:27 PM   #8
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I know it is a great feeling
Getting High speed for free
any way i hope this happens again and stays that way for a longer period
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Bhai Sharath , I think god is listening to us and has answered our requests .

Check this out , this happened just today .. I am Loving It !!!!!

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7...pstodaynt9.png

I am getting between 1.8 to 2.5 Mbps today !!!

I am not supposed to get more than 256 Kbps [ 32 KBps ] in the day according to my plan !!!!

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/1...kaspeedrj7.png

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5...ndabaaddn5.png

Torrents are never that fast anyway

So you see , Airtel Zindabaad !!!!
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Old 12-30-08, 07:08 PM   #10
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what i meant is that they could be providing u a free trial for a limited period. When i got it, they said its for 1 month, but it just never stopped (thats a mistake), so just hope u get 2mbps back ......
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what i meant is that they could be providing u a free trial for a limited period. When i got it, they said its for 1 month, but it just never stopped (thats a mistake), so just hope u get 2mbps back ......
I Don't Think So .

Here is a screenshot of the email I sent Airtel CC asking them for 1 Mbps trial and their reply saying that they cannot give it to me , they even called me up and asked me to use the bandwidth on demand thing to test the speed that I would get before migrating to the 1 Mbps unlimited plan !!!

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7519/airtelcczm3.png
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That happened to me too
Today I called the airtel customer care and asked them about the unlimited plan for 2mbps
They said that they have 2 mbps unlimited plan but its gonna cost me Rs.16000/- per month
thats huge amount to spend on
then I asked them whether they could provide me with a free trial of 2mbps
in response they said they dont have a free trial right now and might call me if they have one.
so now i might call my airtel technician (he's a friend of mine) and ask him to pull some strings so that i could get one.
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That happened to me too
Today I called the airtel customer care and asked them about the unlimited plan for 2mbps
They said that they have 2 mbps unlimited plan but its gonna cost me Rs.16000/- per month
thats huge amount to spend on
then I asked them whether they could provide me with a free trial of 2mbps
in response they said they dont have a free trial right now and might call me if they have one.
so now i might call my airtel technician (he's a friend of mine) and ask him to pull some strings so that i could get one.
The Airtel engineer can do that ??? I mean , I know that BSNL engineers can if you pay them some money , they are a Govt organization who doesn't care much of the way things are run anyway , but with Airtel being private and all , the engineer can still give you 2 mbps for cheap ? Let me know what he says ! , but for now 2 Mbps speed is still going strong after the 24th hour !!! I hope it stays
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Ya u were right
Technicians can just tune the current speed but not change them
I am really hoping the 2 mbps speed would come back
what is the average time u ppl got 2 mbps
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lol but i had been enjoying free unlimited 2mbps for over 7months. They told me it was just a free trial. I had called them up to ask if i had to pay or not.
So, i think i m very lucky. I got net worth Rs.16000X7 for freee.... I really ripped airtel off

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I Don't Think So .

Here is a screenshot of the email I sent Airtel CC asking them for 1 Mbps trial and their reply saying that they cannot give it to me , they even called me up and asked me to use the bandwidth on demand thing to test the speed that I would get before migrating to the 1 Mbps unlimited plan !!!

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7519/airtelcczm3.png
thats a HUGE amt of spam mail u have !!
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lol but i had been enjoying free unlimited 2mbps for over 7months. They told me it was just a free trial. I had called them up to ask if i had to pay or not.
So, i think i m very lucky. I got net worth Rs.16000X7 for freee.... I really ripped airtel off



thats a HUGE amt of spam mail u have !!
I was hoping you wouldnt notice

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Ya u were right
Technicians can just tune the current speed but not change them
I am really hoping the 2 mbps speed would come back
what is the average time u ppl got 2 mbps
About once or twice every month , sometimes on festivals , hey I forgot to tell you , even I got a speed hike on the 25th - Christmas day !!! , wasn't 2 Mbps was 700 Kbps + -
Talking about speed hike , I am back to 256 Kbps now but it went strong for 2 full days !!! downloaded 13 GB , Based on that statistics , hopefully we can expect something on the 1st of Jan ...
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there should be a way of locking the speed when its available
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there should be a way of locking the speed when its available
lol that would be lovely !!
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I got my 2mbps back
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How? Even I need 2Mbps...
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