India Broadband Forum

Luke Skywalker

I was talking about India where quality of service is bad & cost higher.

Wimax-m is the future. Just search about it.

mickey

in US 9% users get back to DIAL UP (out numbering total Mac users)

While they were all the rage in the 90s, with so many broadband options available to so many people nowadays, it seems a bit archaic to still be dialing in to your ISP, listening to those eerie modem protocol negotiation whistles as your connection becomes established. Despite how dated it may seem, about 9% of internet users in the U.S. are getting online with dial-up, which is a sizable amount when you consider they outnumber Mac users.

Source: Dial-up internet access still popular as recession hits : Obsessable Technology News


Only 9% of Americans were still using dial-up in a study last year by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Time Warner Inc.’s AOL, once the king of dial-up with almost 27 million U.S. subscribers at its peak, decided long ago to prop itself up instead on advertising revenue. Now AOL, whose Internet subscribers are still mainly dial-up customers, counts 6.9 million of them...

But even if faster service is more useful, the higher monthly bills are drawing scrutiny these days. Of the people who told Pew they still have dial-up access, 35% said faster service is too expensive for them. (Nineteen percent said nothing would persuade them to upgrade.)


Source: Recession could lengthen the twilight of dial-up | Pew Internet & American Life Project

Rcom

phew i made a typo in a hurry, not just internet connection American's now are buying small fuel efficient cars rather than fuel guzzling V8's and SUV's they buy earlier.

But Reliance(Metro Ethernet) and Airtel (ADSL) in India gives Good quality, on the other hand reliance uses expensive technology thus their plans cost more than Airtel.

mickey

yes, Reliance built high speed optical fibre all across India, at the time when it was very expensive all over the world..

but i think a common Indian, wont purchase something with this sympathy..

Luke Skywalker

That is not correct. It still require much improvement on scale of 3 times to meet standard set.
In case of PSU it requires in scale of 6 times.
Also cost should be less by 10 times.

rsen

about Airtel:

I've heard that airtel implements a "Fair usage policy" and throttles bandwidth if you use too much (not even sure how much); is this true ?

If so, it's useless because with online gaming and occasional web browsing I end up using 4.5-5.5GB.

Re: ADSL -
I doubt it will improve. In particular BSNL will most likely never improve and use shitty routing. I heard they don't even have their own gateway but im not 100% sure about this.

Rcom

Yes its 100% true if u reach at certain amount of usage(defined by airtel on various plans) ur speed will be capped by 50% say u r on 1MbPS plan if FUP triggers u will get 512KbPS till next billing cycle!!!

Expecting improvement from a GOVT ISP is like expecting from a pig to fly!!!! i.e it will never happen!!

mickey

who told you pigs dont fly!!!??

@Rsen, buddy these are the only option for you.. btw even if you get a good connection, you may require some better proxies(if on foreign networks) cause its really two slow..