Thread: Speed Poll - Home 500 Night Unlimited

I got home 500 plan last month ..For the past one week even during day time the speed is only 20 kpbs << . The Technical details are below.

Downstream Upstream
SNR Margin (dB): 4.2 18.5
Attenuation (dB): 55.0 29.3

I feel it is line problem . BSNL customer service do not accept it is a line problem .

Please let me know how to rectify the problem

hope this helps Prashanth Speaks-Technology and Life: Frequent Disconnection in DSL connection

your downstream SNR margin is too low.it must be greater than 10 & is usually around 25.if your SNR is too low(less than 10) then you will get frequent disconnections.

similarly your downstream line attn is very high.in my case it is 29 for downstream & 15 for upstream.line attn represents how far are you from local exchange.i am at a distance of around 2km so unless you are 6-7 km or even more away from your exchange your local line attn should not be this much.the more your line attn is the lesser speed you will get.

Hi all
I have been using home 500 plan for almost 5 months now and I always get average download spead of 1800-1950kpbs which is according to the speeds promised by the BSNL.

I have read all the posts in for this topic.... and noticed that most of the users are doing speed test only once.. which often gives inaccurate results...

In addition to what is mentioned earlier in to do speed tests... I would also like to add some more things...

> Always do speed test when the BSNL servers are not busy.. ie during off peak periods... if u do speed tests during peak hours u will always get low download speeds (Though in theory DSL connections should not be effected by the number of users online on a particular server but in reality it does)

> Second most important thing is to do speed test 3-6 times and take average of all tests to arrive at your max down/up speeds

> Third and the most important point is to use reliable speed test servers... I have been a user of High speed Internet services (download 10-99MB and upload 1MB) for 6 yrs now and observed that only a few speed test servers give accurate results.....

Try this speed test server... Speakeasy - Speed Test and select Seattle server... though this server is far away in North America, my experience tell that this is one of the best speed test servers...

Hope this helps...If would be interesting if users can try that above noted points and lets us know the outcome

Thanks to the help from some senior member.....i am now getting 220-240kB/s in torrents almost every night.....
Did port forwarding, changed phoneline, got my splitter replaced, and last but not the least tweaked the utorrent settings as given in some post

Hey, I wanted a good broadband connection for watching youtube vids, downloading songs and maybe movie torrents. But i dont know which plan to go for??? The Rs750 unlimited plan for 256Kbps or Rs500c pla for 256Kbps-2 Mbps. Also I go to college and dont have lots of free time, is it advisable to sit from 2-8 pm.


PS Currently i am on Rs 250 plan for 256Kbps-2 Mbps. I used it a lot my last month bill had come Rs2200. (Damn youtube)

home 500c is better.. you can download free during 2-8am ( not pm) .. and you dont have to be awake all night for this.. you can schedule your connection.. since you download a lot.. you can use the 500c plan.. the 750 unlimited is pretty slow and will take time to download..

http://www.indiabroadband.net/bsnl-b...html#post24170 (BSNL 500 Night Unlimited)

Check this link for scheduling help.

I don't know why the font size is getting big.Still,you'll find good in formation through the link.

home 500= 50 free calls + 2-8 free + rental of your phone(as per your current landline scheme eg,one India(180) or Sulabh(120) etc) + 2.5 GB download limit + 12% tax

Home 500 C


256Kbps/

Up to 2 Mbps

500


5000


SU


1.5GB


0.80(aditional per MB)


1/5 MB


Nil


175


As per One India


One month charges


Available


Three months

Home 500 C+


256 Kbps/

Up to 2 Mbps

600


6000


SU


2.5GB

0.80(aditional per MB)

1/5 MB


Nil


50


As per One India


One month charges


Available


Three months

Please ignore the previous post.The correct post is as follows.

Home 500
256Kbps/
Up to 2 Mbps
500 + rental (as per your current landline rent) + 12% tax
yearly-5000
SU
2.5GB
0.80(for extra download beyond limit)
Nil
50 free calls
call charges-As per current plan
Advance-One month charges
night unlimited(2-8 free)Available
Three months(minimum hire period)

Home 500 C
256Kbps/
Up to 2 Mbps
500 + 12% tax(no rental)
yearly-5000
SU
1.5GB
0.80(for extra download beyond limit)
Nil
175 free calls
call charges-As per One India
Advance-One month charges
night unlimited(2-8 free)Available
Three months(minimum hire period)

Home 500 C+
256 Kbps/
Up to 2 Mbps
600 + 12% tax(no rental)
6000
SU
2.5GB
0.80(for extra download beyond limit)
Nil
50 free calls
call charges-As per One India
One month charges
night unlimited(2-8 free)Available
Three months(minimum hire period)

around 1 mbps for continous activity

hey guys, i had applied for a plan change from 750UL to 500C, they changed it on august 1, but the download speed is still 30-32 kBps. I chkd my order status on the portal, it says -
Order Type Plan Change
Plan Name Home 500 C
Order Status Open

Also when i wanted to see my usage records for the last 2 days, i.e. august 1 and 2, it says No Usage records found for august 2008. What the hell?

how do u ppl get those kind of speeds......i download through Mu torrent,the speed is at ,max 90kbps for individual files and overall if i download many files the combined speed will reach upto 250..........i have the port forwarded and there is a tick mark in the status bar of MU torrent..................

@poolboyz,unless order status become provisioned your plan is not changed officially.

@gurusam,uTorrent shows speed in KBps & 1KBps=8kbps so on a 2mbps line you will get ~230-240KBps which is what you are getting.

Originally Posted by whitestar_999

@poolboyz,unless order status become provisioned your plan is not changed officially.

So when is it supposed to change to 'provisioned'?....i mean it's already August 3

depends.can take days to weeks if you are unlucky.

Originally Posted by pranavtrehun007

Hi ,

Please post your AVERAGE night unlimited plan speed here (2am to 8am speeds only).


NOTE: Vote is in kbps (kilo bits per second)

1 kBps (kilo Bytes per second)= 8 kbps (kilo bits per second)

example,
32 kBps = 256kbps


Thanks a Ton

when i download it goes to 3mb but when its streaming its not that fast.

Your streaming speed also depends on the server you are downloading the stream from... its a two way affair so it might also get bottlenecked at the server even even if your speed is good

speed is right, always /8. Just good.

i get 180-200 kBytes/sec
1440kbps-1600kbps

i am a bit confused regarding kBps and kbps.
if a 10 MB file is to be download, how much time will take it to download at say a speed of 32 kBps

Originally Posted by mohdirfanz

i am a bit confused regarding kBps and kbps.
if a 10 MB file is to be download, how much time will take it to download at say a speed of 32 kBps

1KB=8Kb (KB-kilobyte,Kb-kilobit)
32KBps=32kilobytes in 1 second
10MB(megabyte)=(10 X 1024) Kilobytes
Rest ,you do the math.

I think download speed depends on the server from where we are downloading. While downloading from torrent sites, I have reached up to 300 KBps because number of peers were more and their upload speed was good.