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smartflight

I applied for airtel on 6-2-2007 and it was running by 8-2-2007. The salesman promised a minimum speed of 35 KBPS, but it's not even 3 KBPS . Horrible. I am running it with GPRS on Nokia 6600 throgh Bluetooth. Any Suggestion to get 35 KBPS ?

Admin

As you said gprs.. The max speed is not going to be more then 48kbps with gprs.
However if you have an edge enabled phone and your area has edge services provided by airtel(airtel doesnt support edge every where its just select locations right now) then with edge your max speed will be 100kbps which means about 12.5kB/sec and no more then that coz that is the max from airtel's end as I have had a word with a few supervisors at airtel delhi...

The newest phones with edge have class 32 edge which can support speeds up to 384kbps but thats not gonna do any good coz airtel bottlenecks it at 100kbps.

I have been using airtel's gprs connection with my motorola A920 which has class 10 gprs and I get speeds of around 5-6kB/sec which is what I would expect.

Not sure how and why the airtel guy promised you speeds of 35kB/sec which amounts to 280kbps which is not true as far as I know..

Give customer care a call and shout and scream at them and if you have any proff of airtel guy making those claims go to a consumer court.

boybandreject

That^ being said...the maximum transfer rate of bluetooth on a 6600 is around 5-6kbps if not less....just fyi

smartflight

Administrator said that the maximum speed gonna be 12.5 KBps. But one of those who voted is getting 16-32 KBPS. Well, what's your area and which is your phone, also by which method are u connected (Bluetooth, Infrared or any other) and r u using it Through GPRS ? Is it an unlimited plan? 16-32 is amazing on airtel.

smartflight

Hey dudes,

I am getting 0 - 6 on Nokia 6600 after complaining and without complaining i'm getting 4 - 16 on Nokia 6270 through USB cable. Usually 4 - 10 KBPS. That's amazing and if i complain them I'm getting 4-16 but the salesman promised a minimum of 35 KBPS. . Is 6270 edge enabled. Can u tell with the following text -

Whenever i connect GPRS on my phone instead of a G in a box E comes in the Box.

niceguysan

i hav been using Airtel GPRS around 3 years while in Chandigarh-Phillaur & now in Gurgaon . Airtel GPRS service is not good , i use 6230 , The only benefit is that it is unlimited usage ability but what the fun if it even fail to provide the speed of 1 kbps.. although i have downlaoded full OS overnight..

but as now broadband is widely available they should aslo decrease their proces & do some improvement in providing speed.

mittina

i have an airtel datacard.. its really bad. its the same as gprs and its edge enabled.... and it says the mamximum is around 238 kbps.. but that would mean around 24 KBps but i hardly get 2 or 3 when i download that too in an area where the signal is around 90 - 100 %... after complaining too there has been no improvement. though on one occasion i got a download speed of 20KBps. that has been the highest so far.

niceguysan

thak go d u told me i was thinking to got this for my laptop.. thanks a lot but what about reliece data card

Admin

Yes it is edge enabled and the 16 kbps you are talking about cannot be constant its just the burst and you will see it setteling down below 12.5 as in practice airtel doesnt provide speeds more then 12.5kB/sec ie 100kbps.

Life will be moch more easier with wimax enabled phones and wimax will be available any time soon this year speeds 1mbps+

Admin

I have not used reliance data card on a regular basis but a few of my friends who are reporters with news papers all of them use reliance data cards to send thier articles and high res photographs back to thier offices when they are out of station and they swear upon the speeds and quality of the connection they get.I can assure you that speed is better then airtel's gprs but to be honest they are more of less the same.

You will be paying a lot more with reliance as compared to airtel.

The normal rental for unlimited data transfer on airtel gprs is 499rs a month but I only pay Rs99 and you can get that aswell just call thier billing department and ask them for a discount and hopefully if your usage is like me (I dont download anything) you will end up paying just Rs99 per month (I am at NewDelhi).

Admin

There are some kids around who just vote for the sake of it even though they have never use gprs Trust me its impossible on airtel as they cap speeds at 100kbps.May be in future when wimax phones arrive airtel will have to do something to keep thier customers from moving to wimax service providers to get better speeds.

niceguysan

What is wimax ?

undertaker

I would say Airtel GPRS is not bad at all.

What I do is, I have Airtel GPRS, which I use to browse on my laptop using a Data cable, (Not blue tooth please).

The connection shows 410kbps strength. Although when I check the effective speed, depending on the time of the day, it varies between 25-97 kbps. I use my N72 as the modem.

I have successfully downloaded Windows Vista, (almost 3 GB) and many movies and Vids using this connection. Ofcourse, I use a few tweaks to fine tune speed, but for Rs. 375/- a month, it is not bad at all!

niceguysan

Not a big deal, i too hav downloaded many games Windows Longhorn & Windows Server 2003 with it i hav been using it since 3-4 years , i used it with N6230.. in haryana it is not that gud as it is in Punjab & chandigarh

undertaker

Not a question of 'not a big deal' or 'big deal' man!

Members here are lamenting that speed of Airtel gprs sucks.

What I am saying and what you just confirmed is that for less then Rs.400/- for an unlimited plan which is pretty trouble free, the deal is actually good!

Many times, I have used download manager in the night, slept and by morning, downloaded huge video files.

Those with limited GB limits can even consider taking Airtel GPRS as additional backup. In any case it is damn good for normal surfing, (e-mails, chats etc.)

niceguysan

COOLIO HAHAH

agent

I agree with Admin
And I am also using Mobile Office for my laptop
And the maximum speed you get is never more than 8kBps.
But yes things have changed now eaarlier the speed range used to be 2-4kBps
And now the range is 4-8kBps.

niceguysan

Oh Really hmm things have changed now u hav jumped a too High Oooo

lol

abyssman

i activate mobile office once in a week and work as much as i can..

i nearly download 700 mb stuffs...
and total bandwidth usuage will be around a gb... even torrents run fine.. in the day time the speed on torrents will be around 8 to 12 kb/s and in the night time it increases to 16-18 kb/s.. once the speed reached 22 kb.. but it was just for a an hour or less...
well. what can u expect for 20 bucks...
previously i had bsnl 500 home.. i became sick coz getting up every night ... the broad band fever came down and now i am really relaxed..and took out the connection.. ..
i update my OS ,download the top mp3 hits of the week if there are any new releases .. thats enough for me.....

i am from mysore...

niceguysan

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