India Broadband Forum

absn93

i used 2 get 12-20 kbps on airtel n cud download 400 mb in a day...with my n93 as a modem n my lapi's inbuilt bluetooth which is faaaast....depends on which area u in and wat quality phone u use....

niceguysan

Hello friends,

the topic of this thread is really very serious one, but the point is this:

Is it worth paying for what connections speed you get by Airtel GPRS.


ppl in this thread seems to be very funny who speek about connection speed which is even less than 12kbps..

Yes this is a gr8 advantage to check your email sitting in the train or even travelling by autorikshaw... afterall India is an IT phantom of the future.

I have used GPRS on airtel more than 5 years , 3 years back i first tried watch TV channels like Aaj tak, zoom etc on my second phone 6230, even at that time the streaming was perfect, but now i am on broadband , & my wifi ipaq gets free wireless accepoint easily while im roaming near the office or sometimes sitting in the cafeteria.

i have a mate who has GPRS enabled on his phone showed me how better it is if going by unlimited plan, but their are many unlimited plans by broadband connections though little bit much costlier or almost same.

I didnt find that if the GPRS speed has improved than before. what i feel is airtell is just on the loot by takeing the advantage of ppl less knowledge of accesing the interent & by provisioning unlimited hype.. now they have another idea to loot using blackberry bla bla .

dont know what the wireless future would be , & how fast internet be ther on it...

sharish1983

hello friend's i am new to the airtel gprs , customer care persons informed they are providing 45 kbps, but i am getting only 2 to 4 kbps , iam using sony ericson w700i, is there any solution that i get more speed

niceguysan

no way.. its the max u get on AIRTEL GPRS...

aktmnr

Hey i used to get 7-8 kbps download speed on airtel till few months back but now it sucks with 1-1.5Kbps download speed (Mobile office Rs20/day)
But now i've got an Idea prepaid and it is giving me 15-18KBPs download speed constantly and its almost a month now speed even went to 21-22 in night and i am really satisfied with it considering the same price Rs 20/day
I am using Nokia 6630.

!DSeva

Ya it is 6-10 KBps.

gardencityboy

Dude that is Rs 600 /month

dont you think that you are paying really really high price for a speed of 15 KBps were as BSNL is giving 2 Mbps

aktmnr

Yep you are right buddy but considering my requirement its good. As for the week days i use my office broadband connection of 5 MBPS and need a net connection only on week ends that too just for checking my mails, some wall papers download and reading blogs so its good to have Net (Rs 20*8days=Rs160 per month) with a good 18kbps that tooo considering the fact that its a GPRS.

gardencityboy

OH! now i get it
You mean you pay only for the days your use, then it is very good
I taught that you need to pay Rs 20/Day for the whole month if you subscribe for the service

!DSeva

I m getting max 10 kiloByte/sec on W200i.

viper_in_blood

guys whn i ws using airtel gprs it used to be 4-5kbs both in karnataka as well as in delhi.....but with airtel data card it hovered around 13-15 kbps........the basic thing is u cannot use these speeds for dwnlding or uploading......it can only be usd to chk mails or just surfing the net......but with rel data cards it ws not so bad as the phon or the data card gives 15-17kbps....but still reliance is damm costlier thn airtel.....it is upon u ....weather u can afford to pay for rel or be happy at airtel.....

prabhat_singh008

i am also using airtel gprs and getting speed around 5 -6 KBps which is maximum speed in gprs

Harshytkage

5-6 is what i get on my nokia 3500c

it's a class 10 EDGE enabled phone

prabhat_singh008

im getting speed upto 7 kbps with my sony ericsson w300i

Harshytkage

of course sometimes even my speeds touch 8 or 9

prabhat_singh008

but max. speed is upto 7 ??????

Rameshjeee

Is there any way of finding the speed of GPRS?

prabhat_singh008

and how can u check ur speed?????

it is always around 6-7 kb. no need of check

Harshytkage

i dont check my speed anywhere...im talking general dl speeds

Rameshjeee

How do you know that thw speed is around 6~7 kb...