India Broadband Forum

eyesonyouu

I am actually surprised! When I got the Explore 1099 plan the CC told me atleast 2 times about the badnwidth cap. It was also mentioned on the website. After reading your post I checked the website again and find they have changed the layout a little bit and they dont mention about the limit unless you click the fair use policy. Now that is wrong as no new customer would get a dream that he has to click on it!!!! Its either the carelessness of the CC that he didnt tell you about the bandwidth cap earlier or maybe it is a new strategy from airtel (which looks unlikely).

Having said that still the plan is very good. If you decide to scrap it what other options have you got in this price?? Also I got airtel quite few years back when they were going door to door selling their connections!! Do they charge installion charges now?? If not you can anytime cancel the plan and go for some other 1. Whats good about this plan is that the NIGHT SPEED never changes!! and there night time from 10pm to 6 am keeps continuing well over 7 am!!

dv8ted

i guess what you say is probably right....yes..they did come door to door at my place too...and after verifying that their service is good...did i go in for it...they charge 1000 bucks for installation for a normal modem and i guess 1500-2000 for a wifi

jakemake123456

When I joined Airtel little over a year ago , they charged me 1000 bucks as installation charge & the modem but the same was reimbursed in the 1st months bill so effectively the modem / wifi router was free back then, dunno how it is now , anyone care to comment !!!

I think you should write to wecare.west@airtel.in about the inconvenience you faced !

I have an Intel Atom Torrent Box running Ubuntu and uTorrent , I haven't turned it on for over 3 months now , so I completely understand your concert , I am telling you that the worst-case-scenario is that you day speed will be reduced to 256 Kbps from 512 Kbps , night still stays 1 Mbps unlimited , trust me it's not all that bad , but yeah CC should have informed you about the catch. Lucky when I went for the Explore 1099 plan then weren't advertising Bandwidth Caps on the website

dv8ted

so jake does that mean...at your time of taking the connection, since you did not have the caps...the same holds for you now ?? i mean will your connection be ever halved after crossing 100 gigs ? and i assume 100 gigs is upload/download...so now even seeding is a problem ?

Rambo

I want to take this plan.Do you guys know if Airtel broadband available in Assam??

karantheking

Well i have 1299 plan and here's what i think, you would never reach 100 gb unless u are using Bittorrent.It is this reason Airtel brought this policy.

I never have reached even 40gb with my download .I have even maintained how much is being downloaded on my side,unless you are downloading 24 hours a day then only you would reach that limit.I have never reached that limit and even airtel has said rarely one reaches that limit.And if you do ,you might be downloading illegal content like movies,games,music,software.

I would recommend 512 plan/1mbps plans.

dv8ted

Yeah...you're spot on...im one of those virtual netizens who live 24 hours online downloading stuff. True..i havent hit 100 GB yest...but i get a little more than halfway...i own a blueray player and i keep downloading mkv's. As you might be knowing the 1080p variants starts 9-13 gigs...so that does take up most of my list on utorrent...
secondly...in calcutta...the plans have been changed...there are only 2 unlimited plans..1399 and 1999 for 1Mbps and 2Mbps with a fair usage policy of 25 and 30 gig respectively...so if i change the plan...i lose the 100 gig advantage in my current plan. Strange...since the 1299 and 1699 plan is still very much active in places like delhi

karantheking

Well like you said u do would 90% not reach that 100gb landmark.The Airtel website does mention 1099 plan but it is quite surprising airtel has given only 20gb limit for this plan.That would be quite disappointing ...It like area to area priority it seems.I have IPTV and I pay 1499 with 512/1mbps and 100gb limit.