This is a discussion on Airtel USB Modem within the Airtel Broadband forums, part of the Broadband Internet Service Providers category; I am frustrated and dumped customer of Airtel now, for nearly seven years i have been using Airtel's product. Recently ...
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2008
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Rep Power: 0 | I am frustrated and dumped customer of Airtel now, for nearly seven years i have been using Airtel's product. Recently i opted for airtel Broadband connection, we have airtel connection over our locality but found no hub at my place,then i pefered to buy a USB MODEM as the sells agent told me it will give 80-100kbps, i paid flat Rs5000/- for the same and opted unlimited plan of Rs999/- But at the end i get only speed upto 49kbps/ I called up many times to the technical support, but they are denying the speed. I don't want the USB MODEM anymore and they are not refunding..... am totally dissapointed and heartbroken. That much speed i can get from my mobile gprs activated, what the use of spend so much money on the modem???? Airtel and other ISP who sells wireless Modem are fooling us..... I learned a lesson now... IF you think to get a wireless connection then simply activate your cell with gprs and go on with computer thats is better.... Don't go for beautiful advertisement, they are 80% lie. |
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Rep Power: 0 | And while talking with Customer support on 7070 from Airtel sim, they don't know much about the connections and modem. Even they told me the modem don't support Vista (then how come they sell the USB MODEM), But I loaded it myself and using on my laptop running Vista, phew poor chap. ANYWAY I am the one who unknowly bought it so now am undergoing distress... anyhow anybody knows how to enhance the speed??? How is Spectranet's Internet connection??? |
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| Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2007
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Rep Power: 2 | Well this is the speed you would get from your USB modem and more over speed also depends from place to place according to there connection availability. If you are near to there main place then you should get good speed and as far as you go there can be a difference in the speed. |
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| Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2007
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Rep Power: 2 | My friend have a USB modem and he also faced the similar problem and this problem is due to low signal availability. if you have strong signal available then you would have good download/surfing/upload speed and if youu dont have it then you would not have it. |
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Rep Power: 0 | 49kbps is kilo bits its connection speed and if its 49KBps kilo Bytes then its good but i dontthink USB modem will ever give 49KBPS atleast in india |
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| Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Age: 39
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Rep Power: 0 | I took a USB modem connection from Tata Indicom I was under the impression that it is a broadband connection. However I was misinformed by the guy who came to sell the connection. I took a 5gb connection as I was going to use it full time to connect to my office VPN. I was just given a form to sign and the guy refused to give me a bill for the modem saying that 'this is how we do modem sales' I refused and spoke to his manager and then he relented and gave me a recipt. Apart from this he never told me anything else. After about 25 days my connection went dead I called up the customer service they told me that the outgoing is barred(never understood who cares about outgoing calls in a USB modem)as my bill is unpaid. I told them that I have not recived any bill and it is not even one month since I have got the connection. They told that I have crossed my credit limit. the 5gb connection costs Rs.1500 and my credit limit is set at 1600 wow!! and they disconnected without any phone call or any kind of communication. I gave them my piece of mind. Finally they asked me to pay up the money and said that connection will be restored in 2 hours after payment. Surprise after payment what they say. It will take 3 days to restore the connection. Finally after 7-8 calls and 2 hours on the phone they took 4 hours to restore the conneciton. I was on an important data transfer process and It got delayed by a day much to my embrassment. I had told my Boss in US that I will be able to work comfortably from home in India for a couple of months and attend to family matters simultaneously. Now with BSNL broadband connection working for only 2 days and no other service provider in my area Im at the mercy of TATA Indicom connection and my misterious credit limit. |
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| Bronze Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Pune Age: 28
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Rep Power: 2 | Why dont you guys try connecting via an ethernet modem , remove the USB bit out of the equation , I am a very happy customer of Airtel broadband , their service is top notch , its a pity that you had a horrible experience with them |
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Rep Power: 12 | jakemake123456 he is talking about the gprs connection not adsl.. |
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| Bronze Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Pune Age: 28
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Rep Power: 2 | Shoot , didnt even read , sorry |
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| Platinum Member | jakemake123456, this is exactly what you have been doing today. You have been replying to posts that are months old, their owners are no more active and are thus irrelevant. And to top it all, in your hurry to reply, you are not reading what is asked. We welcome all your contributions. But please reply to topics that will make an impact and difference to latest issues. Hope you understand. Moderator just4kix.
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| Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Age: 27
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Can we go for legal action???? | |
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Age: 19
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Rep Power: 1 | This is actually the 1st time that I am hearing complaints about Airtel services!! Well Thats another thing that I have been using Broadband service, Maybe they have issues with their USB Internet services!! Well here is what is written at Airtel website- Quote:
Code: http://airtel.in/wps/wcm/connect/Airtel.in/airtel.in/home/foryou/broadband+internet/reach+airtel/ Maybe you can try contacting the Nodal officers to see if your problem is resolved....if not you can contact the other higher authority!! | |
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| Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Age: 25
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Rep Power: 0 | Hi, Please suggest me what is the performance and actual speed of USB wireless modem. I am planning to purchase as there is not broadband in my colony. -Sunil |
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| Platinum Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: New Delhi
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Rep Power: 9 | check the availability of either of the following EVDO services in your area first. 1. BSNL EVDO 2. Reliance Mobile Broadband+ 3. TATA Photon+ Any of the above service would give you a minimum speed of around 1 mbps. |
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Rep Power: 5 | If you get to choose from the top 3 , i'd definitely try Photon1! |
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| Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Gurgaon
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The GPRS connection on your phone and the USB modem use the same technology. So you'll probably never get faster speeds than GPRS. That good for a mobile phone - but not enough for your computer. | |
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| Platinum Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: New Delhi
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Rep Power: 9 | the only USB modems that would give decent speeds are BSNL 3G (GSM network based, with voice service) or any of the three EVDO (CDMA network based, without voice service) services. |
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